New Delhi: The nation on Sunday remembered the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice-President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him. Patil, Ansari and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who...
05:29 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a swipe at Sonia Gandhi, saying that his state had not bowed down even before Jawaharlal Nehru, let alone the present Congress president. Modi also took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that Singh's house is run on generators, but Gujarat is a power-surplus state. He was speaking in Botad town of Bhavnagar district, 120 km from here, during...
01:24 AM, May 05, 2012
The port of Pipavav should have made money hand over fist ever since it started operations in 1998. After all, located deep in the Saurashtra region in south Gujarat, it is a gateway port that caters to landlocked regions like Delhi, the National Capital Region, Punjab and also the rich states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. It handles more reefer trains (refrigerated trains that carry fish, meat, etc) than any...
10:59 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New York: The stylish 'Nehru jacket' popularised by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's has been listed among the top global political fashion statements. Nehru's attire has found place in the list that includes the tracksuit of Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's safari suit, according to the Time magazine. "The Nehru jacket is a descendant of the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coat like...
11:43 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Mumbai: Dev Anand, who passed away at 88 in London early Sunday, was perhaps the first Bollywood star who formally tried his luck in politics. He had a short but not sweet stint, but certainly started a trend of celebs entering the corridors of power. Way back in 1977, after the Emergency was imposed by then prime minister Indira Gandhi, Dev Anand decided to set things right and 'teach the...
06:27 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Singapore: Sixty-one years after Jawaharlal Nehru last visited the island state, Singapore commemorates in stone India's first prime minister as a "friend to our shores". With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiling a bust of Nehru at the Asian Civilisation Museum green on the picturesque banks of the Singapore River on Sunday along with Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, it was further affirmation of a historic connect that also includes...
08:39 AM, Nov 20, 2011
In the first photo statesman Jawaharlal Nehru (1869 - 1964), known as Pandit Nehru, is seen as a child with his father Pandit Motilal Nehru and mother Swarup Rani Nehru. In the 1905 and 1906 images, Nehru is seen wearing his Harrow School Cadets uniform. Nehru's birthday every year is celebrated in India as Children's Day. ...
02:41 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: A new biography of India's late prime minister Indira Gandhi tries to throw candid light on her personality against the backdrop of her family and politics. "Indira Gandhi: Revolution in Restraint" by Uma Vasudev chronicles Gandhi's life as a politician in context of her grandfather Motilal Nehru's fortunes and the early beginnings of India's struggle for independence, the plunge of the Nehru family into politics, the change in...
12:03 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Some Google users in India might not have immediately established the connection between a tabla, sitar, shehnai and other Indian musical instruments with Children's Day. The doodle that Google India put on its home page to celebrate Children's Day, the birthday of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was created by Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from Ryan International School, Greater Noida. Varsha was chosen as...
08:07 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Country's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was interested in setting up an independent body to check corruption, former Election Commissioner GVG Krishnamurthy said on Sunday. The issue of creating an ombudsman to fight graft had come up for discussions at 3rd All India Law Conference at instance of Nehru in 1962. "The issue of appointing ombudsman was introduced following a suggestion by Nehru and the modalities with...
02:48 PM, Aug 21, 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
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