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Thursday, November 7, 2024
TopicPranab Mukherjee

Topic: Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika awarded Bharat Ratna

Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika were conferred the award posthumously.

A birthday ode to Pranab Mukherjee, former president and a true democrat

In his over five-decade-long career, Pranab Mukherjee has served as a party worker, Parliamentarian, minister and President of India.

India is not a small nation belonging to a particular group of people: Pranab Mukherjee

There should be a craving for an education system where everybody can express freely without the fear of being misjudged, he said.

Why Ruskin Bond never wrote about Indian politicians

In this excerpt from his book 'Beauty of All My Days', Bond recalls memories of him having seen and heard Nehru as well as his conversations with Morarji Desai, Acharya Kripalani. 

A year of Kovind: India gets a frequent-flyer President and a more open Rashtrapati Bhavan

Now, the presidential estate is open for public visit four days a week compared to three days during Pranab Mukherjee’s tenure.

RSS pulls off another masterstroke, after Pranab gets Ratan Tata to attend its event

The Tata Group patriarch will be attending the golden jubilee of Nana Palkar Smriti Samiti, an RSS affiliated organisation

As GST turns one, there’s good news and still some bad news

Ahead of GST’s anniversary, policymakers say tax collections have risen in the past year and that teething issues have been addressed.

Modi criticises Emergency, but his party happily did business with those responsible for it

Narendra Modi lambasted the Congress, but chose not to speak on those who implemented the Gandhi family’s diktats during Emergency.

3 things that were wrong with Rahul Gandhi’s grand iftar party

Pranab Mukherjee’s presence and prominence ran contrary to Rahul Gandhi’s iftar attempt as a goodwill gesture towards Muslims.

Pranab, Rahul talk at Congress chief’s iftar bash, days after party backlash to RSS address

The iftar party also served as a show of strength by the opposition as efforts continue to cobble together a coalition that can dislodge the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

On Camera

Show me a bigger irony than those who garland rapists hailing Iran’s Ahoo Daryaei as a ‘hero’

A daring stunt, emanating from insult and frustration, immediately became a reason for entertainment, political jibes, and Islamophobia.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.