Lucknow: Even as India has observed January 26, August 15 and October 2 as national holidays, the government does not seem to have issued any formal orders for the same. The disclosure from the central Home Ministry came in response to an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 filed by 10-year-old Aishwarya Parashar in Lucknow. The Class 6 student sent a letter April 25 to the Prime...
07:56 AM, May 24, 2012
Over the last three years, Indian retailers have been assiduously trying to convert August 15 into a mega sale event, hoping to entice shoppers with discounts. This year, sales at most retailers were particularly good, as August 15 fell on Monday, allowing them to make the most of a long weekend. In general, sales were up between 25-30 per cent, electronics did the best. While sales were up at least...
12:07 PM, Sep 05, 2011
The process of economic reform that India embarked upon 20 years ago was expected to produce immense churning. Most of India's citizens are too young to even remember the India before reforms. State control was pervasive. Growth, even when it took place, was not sustained for significant periods. The spectre of mass poverty was overwhelming, and till the mid-90s it was still plausible to question the viability of the Indian...
10:54 AM, Aug 17, 2011
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11:41 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday lauded the "impressive tempo" of India's development after independence, saying it rightfully enjoys high authority in the world. "Keeping intact its national identity and unique, many centuries long traditions, your nation is demonstrating impressive tempo of social-economic growth, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian growth," Medvedev wrote in his greeting message to President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 65th Independence...
08:54 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: As Bollywood personalities conveyed their greeting on Independence Day and expressed their sense of pride in being Indians, the issue of corruption was clearly on the minds of many of them. "However angry and disappointed I may be with today's politics, I-Day still makes me feel proud to be an Indian," filmmaker Pritish Nandy said on twitter. Veteran actor Anupam Kher said: "My country gives me enough reasons to...
07:45 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Jammu: As Indian and Pakistan troops exchanged sweets on Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Independence Day, the celebrations were marred by violation of ceasefire from across the border in Samba sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Led by Mujahid Regiment Commandant Colonel Umar Gul, Pakistan army officers met Indian counterparts led by Colonel Cristopher at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch district and greeted them on India's 65th Independence...
04:26 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Haridwar: Yoga Guru Ramdev on Monday described the Independence Day as "incomplete and said only one per cent of population has enslaved the whole country. "Only one per cent of people of the country capturing the constitutional systems have made the 99 per cent population as slave and so the today's Independence is incomplete," Ramdev told reporters in Haridwar. He called for a change in the policies drafted by Britishers...
02:32 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Charging the UPA government with involvement in the various "scams" that have hit the headlines, senior BJP leader LK Advani on Monday said people now want the government to be held accountable for its actions. "When the year 2010 had ended, I had lamented that the year would go down in the Indian history as a year of scams. It is the desire of the country to let...
01:24 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: With the government putting conditions on Anna Hazare's fast, BJP on Monday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "introspect" on his stand which it described as being against democracy. "The Prime Minister should introspect on this issue... those who said there was zero corruption in 2G spectrum, those who first called Baba Ramdev a saint and talked to him three-four times, those who talked to Anna Hazare 10...
01:16 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Manmohan Singh on Monday became the third Prime Minister to hoist the national flag from the ramparts of Red Fort for the eighth time in a row, after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Singh, who assumed office on May 22 in 2010 for the second consecutive term, already has the distinction of being the third longest serving Prime Minister of the country after Nehru and his daughter Indira...
12:25 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: As India marches into its 65th year of independence, the people who fought tooth and nail for the freedom most of us take for granted feel this is not the nation of their dreams and are troubled by the all-pervading culture of corruption. Captain S.S. Yadav, a 93-year-old freedom fighter who served in the Indian National Army (INA) of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, feels that the country has...
11:50 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said the security of the people in the country's financial capital and the rest of the state was the topmost priority of his government. Addressing a gathering after unfurling the tricolour in Mumbai on the occasion of the 65th Independence Day, Chavan said his government is committed to ensuring that people feel safe and secure in the state. "Modernisation of security apparatus...
11:38 AM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Motilal Vora on Monday hoisted the national flag at the party headquarters here in the absence of Sonia Gandhi, who is recuperating in a US hospital. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and senior leaders and ministers were present on the occasion. Rahul Gandhi, who had accompanied his mother to the US, arrived on Sunday. There was much speculation that the young...
11:36 AM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi slammed the UPA government at his Independence Day speech in Ahmedabad on Monday. Taking a jibe at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Modi said some people meet the poor and go to villages only for photo opportunities. "It was a matter of shame that people still go for photo-ops to the homes of the poor," Modi said, indicating Gandhi but not naming him....
11:22 AM, Aug 15, 2011
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