Tamil Nadu CM backs Mamata Banerjee in condemning Delhi Police for allegedly calling Bengali a Bangladeshi language, calling it a deliberate insult to diversity.
In his inaugural address for the year to the House, Ravi said his repeated requests and advice to play the national anthem at the beginning and the end of the address has been ignored.
A new version of Pakistan’s Qaumi Taranah or national anthem, ‘Pak Sarzameen’, will mark the country's 75th independence anniversary. Some ask if it's the right time.
In a letter to PM Modi, Subramanian Swamy said some words in Tagore's national anthem raise 'unnecessary doubts' and was 'inappropriate for post-1947 independent India'.
Introduced in early 2019, the measure imposes a prison sentence of up to three years for people convicted of insulting the anthem or singing it in a distorted manner, anywhere from online posts to events.
SC’s 2018 ruling that made playing the national anthem optional in cinema halls talked about ‘showing respect’, but didn’t spell out if that means standing up.
Another way of looking at it is that many of these dignitaries were spared witnessing the violence when their dreams of an independent India became a reality in 1947.
Chouksey has written to the high-level government committee pitching for mandatory playing of the national anthem in cinema halls. A government committee has now circulated his full representation to all stakeholder ministries for their views on the same.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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