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
Mumbai: When Anna Hazare says that Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi should be hanged if found guilty, it does not highlight the severity of the alleged misdeed of the former, but only exposes the superficiality of this 'modern Gandhi', Maharashtra Congress has said. "Hazare is quite in character when he says something like this (that Singhvi should be hanged if found guilty). After all, he was the one, who supported binding...
03:40 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress is unhappy with the Centre's inability to prevent the auction of Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia in London last week with a party leader writing to the Prime Minister to vent his resentment over it. Reflecting the unease in the party over the development, a senior general secretary of the party has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing resentment over the incident and seeking to know...
09:50 PM, Apr 25, 2012
A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London on Tuesday. ...
11:58 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Gandhian writer Giriraj Kishore has said that he will return his Padma Shri to the government to protest Gandhi item auction. This came a day after a pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London on Tuesday that also saw many other Gandhi memorabilia going under the hammer including...
10:55 PM, Apr 18, 2012
The Mahatama's famous round steel-rimmed glasses fetched 34 thousand pounds, while a Charkha used by him was sold for 26 thousand pounds. ...
09:46 AM, Apr 18, 2012
London: A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London on Tuesday that also saw many other Gandhi memorabilia going under the hammer including his iconic round-rimmed glasses that fetched more than twice the estimated price. While the glasses sold for 34,000 pounds, the 'charkha' or the spinning wheel realised 26,000...
10:30 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Rare memorabilia belonging to Mahatma Gandhi will be on auction in the UK on Tuesday. The items to auctioned include blood stained grass picked up from Mahatma Gandhi's assassination site, his famous round steel-rimmed glasses and a few signed letters and a prayer book. The items are expected to fetch between 10,000 to 15,000. However, several Gandhians including anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare are upset over the the auction...
10:17 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has ordered an investigation into an incident in which several statues, including that of Mahatma Gandhi, were vandalised. "It has been brought to the notice of the ministry that several important statues in the Batticaloa town (in eastern Sri Lanka) had been vandalised," Xinhua quoted the Sri Lankan foreign ministry as saying in a statement on Saturday. "The Inspector General of Police has been instructed...
08:10 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have expressed regret over the forthcoming auction of a "clump of soil with drops of the Mahatma's blood collected from the site of his assassination" by the British auction house Mullock's. "The auctioning of the clump of soil with a few claimed drops of Mahatma Gandhi's blood sounds reprehensible, morbid. But if the ownership of the other objects like the glasses, letters and a spinning...
11:04 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Lucknow: A query posted by a 10-year-old girl under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding father of nation status to Mahatma Gandhi has raised a piquant situation before the government. In February this year, Aishwarya Parashar, a class sixth student, sent an RTI application to the central public information officer of Prime Minister's office seeking a photocopy of the order through which Mahatma Gandhi was declared as father of...
03:37 PM, Apr 03, 2012
London: Grass with a drop of Mahatma Gandhi's blood and soil from the place where he was assassinated in 1948 in New Delhi are among rare items to be put up for auction in the UK on April 17. Other items include a pair of Gandhi's round-rimmed glasses, 'charkha', a 10 inch 78rpm Columbia disc of Gandhi giving his spiritual message signed by him, and original photographs of Gandhi visiting...
07:31 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New York: US President Barack Obama invoked the legacies of his heroes Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as he sought support from voters for a second term, saying he too needs time to fulfil his promise of bringing a "real change" to America just as the two legendary leaders did. "The change we fought for in 2008 hasn't always happened as fast as we would have liked... real change, big...
11:37 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Agra: Indian Army chief General VK Singh on Sunday opened the first Rashtra Mandir, dedicated to freedom fighters and social workers, at the Mankameshwar temple complex here. The Rashtra Mandir is a unique temple in the name of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Annie Besant and Bhagat Singh. Mahant Har Har Puri, who is the brain behind the shrine, told IANS: "Nationalism today has to be the foundation of...
11:14 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Washington: Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a US church, drawing sharp reaction from his grandson and others. Gandhi was baptised by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), headquartered in Salt Lake City in Utah on March 27, 1996; the confirmation of which was completed on November 17, 2007 at Sao Paulo Brazil Temple, according to researcher Helen Radkey. The Church of Jesus Christ of...
04:29 PM, Feb 28, 2012
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