Mahatma Gandhi

"He's Much Higher Than Bharat Ratna": Supreme Court On Plea For Mahatma

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Friday January 17, 2020

Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation and people hold him in high esteem which is far beyond any formal recognition, the Supreme Court said on Friday, refusing to direct the government to honour him with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

Jeff Bezos, In India, Pays Respects To "Someone Who Truly Changed World"

India News | Edited By Debanish Achom | Wednesday January 15, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi after he landed in India on Tuesday. He posted a video where he is seen in a white kurta and an orange half-jacket, carrying a colourful wreath of flowers on the lawns of the memorial at Raj Ghat near central Delhi.

"If Mahatma Gandhi Were Alive...": Yashwant Sinha On Citizenship Law

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 14, 2020

The Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) are aimed at "dividing" the country on communal lines, former Union minister Yashwant Sinha said on Monday. Mr Sinha added that if Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would have led an agitation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking "communal" decisions.

Fortunately, Gandhi ji Not Among Us: Shatrughan Sinha Over BJP Trolls

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday January 9, 2020

Don't know what the BJP's "trolls" would have done to Mahatma Gandhi and Jayprakash Narayan had the great leaders been around, Congress leader and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha said on Wednesday.

Odisha Guest House That Hosted Mahatma Gandhi To Become Museum

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday January 9, 2020

A government-run guest house that had hosted Mahatma Gandhi will be revamped and converted into a museum in Odisha's Kendrapara district, officials said.

Zeenat Aman To Make Theatre Comeback With A Play On Mahatma Gandhi And Wife Kasturba

Entertainment | Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 8, 2020

The opening play will tell the story of Kasturba living in absence of MK Gandhi as the latter spent his days in the Quit India movement

"World Needs A Mahatma Gandhi," Says Union Minister

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 4, 2020

Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ''Nishank'' on Saturday said at a time when terrorism is threatening peace across the globe, the world needs a Mahatma Gandhi.

2010-2019: India's Top 10 News Events That Defined The Decade

India News | Edited by Abhishek Chakraborty | Saturday December 28, 2019

Two of the world's largest-ever democratic elections with a turnout of nearly 2 billion people, dozens of other assembly or state elections - some simultaneous, while most within a few months of each other; giant leaps forward in our space programme, some of the biggest and most significant reforms since independence, strategic shifts in the defenc...

Citizenship Law Was Mahatma Gandhi's Dream, Says Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 26, 2019

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act was a "dream of Mahatma Gandhi".

"Not Gandhi, Nehru's, This Is Narendra Modi, Amit Shah's India": BJP MLA

India News | Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Tuesday December 24, 2019

At a public meeting in support of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act in Haryana's Kaithal district, a BJP MLA triggered a controversy with his remark that the new era in India doesn't belong to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru but to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

Peaceful Protests Held Across India Against Citizenship Law: 10 Points

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday December 23, 2019

Peaceful protests were held across the country today, with political parties, students and the civil society coming together against the contentious citizenship law. In Delhi, the Congress held protests at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, which was attended by senior leaders of the party, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, M...

"What Enemies Of India Could Not Do...": Rahul Gandhi's Dig At PM Modi

India News | Edited By Debanish Achom | Tuesday December 24, 2019

Top Congress leaders, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh read out the preamble of the constitution on Monday as the party held a protest at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat in Delhi against the citizenship law.

"Show You're Indian": Rahul Gandhi Calls Students To Delhi's Raj Ghat For Protest

India News | Edited By Debanish Achom | Monday December 23, 2019

The Congress party will hold a protest at Delhi's Raj Ghat, the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, at 3 pm today against the amended citizenship law that fast-tracks the process of granting citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim refugees from three neighbouring countries.

Citizenship Law Fulfills Promises Made By Gandhi, Nehru: Kerala Governor

India News | ANI | Sunday December 22, 2019

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Saturday took a veiled dig at Congress over its opposition to Citizenship Amendment Act, saying Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had made promises to those who were in minority in Pakistan and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had sought rights for refugees who had come to India.

NRC Exercise Undemocratic, Forced Registration Unacceptable: Rajmohan Gandhi

India News | ANI | Sunday December 22, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi on Saturday termed the proposed nationwide NRC exercise as ''undemocratic, very strange and cruel.''