Supreme Court dismisses PIL to reopen Mahatma Gandhi assassina...

January 30 marks the assassination of 'Bapu' Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1948 by Nathuram Godse. New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and a host of other top political leaders on Tuesday paid ...

Union minister Maneka Gandhi seems to have taken a cue from BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh and joined them in humiliating and abusing the government officials in public. Maneka, who is a member of Lok Sabha from Pilibhit, about 300 km from here, was caught on ...

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and other freedom fighters on the occasion of Martyrs' Day''."On Martyrs' Day, we gratefully remember Mahatma Gandhi and the countless freedom fighters who ...

'No one knows whether exposure to the Nobel process would be to her liking, or would benefit her symbolic position above the fray,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. IMAGE: Queen Elizabeth II with Prime Minister Narendra D Modi at Buckingham Palace, April 18, 2018. Should Britain's Queen Elizabeth be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in holding together that curious animal, the 53-country Commonwealth of nations? The not so muted whisper in London is that since nominations are due by the end ...

Some unlikely celebrities are behind multiple campaigns to fight the fake news menace.Sai Manish reports. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com While the Narendra D Modi government burnt its fingers over an unsuccessful attempt to 'rein in' the mainline media over alleged fake news dissemination, India's nascent fake news-busting business is finding high-profile takers. Three of them -- OpIndia, Alt News and Boom Live -- stand out for the intensity of their coverage and the hawk (if sometimes ...

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is mired in a serious leadership crisis, and President Jacob Zuma faces an ignominious end to his political career. The 74-year-old has refused to take responsibility amid corruption and conspiracy charges.

Why did Kamal Haasan name the leaders he did? IMAGE: Kamal Haasan at the House of Kalam in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, February 21, 2018.Photograph: Diamond Babu Tamil movie superstar Kamal Haasan launched his long-awaited political party, the Makkal Needhi Maiam, on Wednesday, February 21, in Madurai, during the course of which he was asked who were the leaders he admired and took inspiration from. Hassan promptly named them. 'I like Gandhi, Ambedkar, Nehru, Kejriwal, Naidu, Pinarayi and ...

Documents accessed by Business Standard show owners of suspected Hong Kong-based shell companies are spread across the globe.  Documents accessed by Business Standard show some of the Hong Kong-based entities to which at least $45 million was paid in less than a week this month at the behest of Nirav Modi with the connivance of Punjab National Bank officials have owners spread across the globe.  The places in question range from Surat in India to Taipei in Taiwan to Dubai in the ...

A minute-long presentation by three students of St Kabir, several books of Bapu, a mug with an RK Laxman toon and a small charkha are some of the mementos that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family are likely to carry home from Gandhi Ashram.