Quit India Movement Day

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu greeted the nation on the eve of the anniversary of Quit India Movement Day on Sunday.

Quit India Movement Day: In the August of 1942, Mahatma Gandhi's fiery speech in Mumbai, giving a 'do or die' call, to the people of India was a final push to make the British quit India. Also known as the Bharat Chodo Andolan or August Kranti Movement, it was launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee. A resolution was also...

Quit India Movement Day: Bharat Chodo Andolan was a turning point in India's freedom struggle. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, people across India came together to uproot British imperialism. In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave a 'do or die' call to the people of India in a final push to make the British quit.

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

Students at IITs and central universities across the country would soon groove to patriotic music by rock bands visiting their campuses. The Human Resource Development Ministry has asked these institutions to host music bands who would be performing patriotic numbers

As the nation is observing 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, various faculties and departments in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) today took pledges to observe this Independence Day as 'Sankalp Parva'.

A special session to mark 75 years of the Quit India resolution is planned in both houses of Parliament on Day 18 of the Monsoon session. Retiring members are also slated to give their farewell speeches in the Rajya Sabha.

Ahead of the 70th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today invoked the Quit India Movement and exhorted the countrymen to use the same spirit to expel problems of communalism, casteism, corruption, terrorism, poverty and dirt from the country by 2022.

A day after Mumbai Congress decried the Maharashtra government's decision to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1942 freedom movement as "Quit India-2", Maharashtra Congress also slammed the move stating a historical event cannot have a "sequel" like that of a film.

The Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked for "restraint, brotherhood and cordial relations" with people of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, a day after the Centre agreed to form a separate Telangana state. At least six state ministers and as many Congress MLAs resigned in protest against the decision. The announcement to create India's 29th...

Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah today paid homage to freedom fighter Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu on the occasion of his 140th "Jayanthi Day." Hailing Pantulu as a "great freedom fighter" in India's independence struggle, Rosaiah said the former had stood in the forefront particularly in the Quit India Movement in 1942.

I came from a political family and was interested in the national movement, but I was determined to finish my studies first. I completed studying medicine at the Madras Medical College in 1940. By this time, the Second World War had broken out and there was a move to recruit all doctors into the (British Indian) Army. I did not want to do that and ...

Facing allegations of financial misconduct, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal today said that he will quit the anti-graft movement if "corruption of even Rs 10 is proved" against him. On the day the movement's audit report for six months starting April was released, Kejriwal also dared the Congress and the BJP to make public information about all th...

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu greeted the nation on the eve of the anniversary of Quit India Movement Day on Sunday.

Quit India Movement Day: In the August of 1942, Mahatma Gandhi's fiery speech in Mumbai, giving a 'do or die' call, to the people of India was a final push to make the British quit India. Also known as the Bharat Chodo Andolan or August Kranti Movement, it was launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee. A resolution was also...

Quit India Movement Day: Bharat Chodo Andolan was a turning point in India's freedom struggle. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, people across India came together to uproot British imperialism. In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave a 'do or die' call to the people of India in a final push to make the British quit.

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

Students at IITs and central universities across the country would soon groove to patriotic music by rock bands visiting their campuses. The Human Resource Development Ministry has asked these institutions to host music bands who would be performing patriotic numbers

As the nation is observing 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, various faculties and departments in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) today took pledges to observe this Independence Day as 'Sankalp Parva'.

A special session to mark 75 years of the Quit India resolution is planned in both houses of Parliament on Day 18 of the Monsoon session. Retiring members are also slated to give their farewell speeches in the Rajya Sabha.

Ahead of the 70th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today invoked the Quit India Movement and exhorted the countrymen to use the same spirit to expel problems of communalism, casteism, corruption, terrorism, poverty and dirt from the country by 2022.

A day after Mumbai Congress decried the Maharashtra government's decision to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1942 freedom movement as "Quit India-2", Maharashtra Congress also slammed the move stating a historical event cannot have a "sequel" like that of a film.

The Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked for "restraint, brotherhood and cordial relations" with people of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, a day after the Centre agreed to form a separate Telangana state. At least six state ministers and as many Congress MLAs resigned in protest against the decision. The announcement to create India's 29th...

Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah today paid homage to freedom fighter Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu on the occasion of his 140th "Jayanthi Day." Hailing Pantulu as a "great freedom fighter" in India's independence struggle, Rosaiah said the former had stood in the forefront particularly in the Quit India Movement in 1942.

I came from a political family and was interested in the national movement, but I was determined to finish my studies first. I completed studying medicine at the Madras Medical College in 1940. By this time, the Second World War had broken out and there was a move to recruit all doctors into the (British Indian) Army. I did not want to do that and ...

Facing allegations of financial misconduct, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal today said that he will quit the anti-graft movement if "corruption of even Rs 10 is proved" against him. On the day the movement's audit report for six months starting April was released, Kejriwal also dared the Congress and the BJP to make public information about all th...