RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said Mahatma Gandhi had called himself a "hardcore Sanatani Hindu" who stuck to his faith and respected other faiths as well, and asked if anyone in present times would atone like Gandhi if their agitation goes wrong and creates law and order problem.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat on February 14. He also signed on the visitors' book.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed to be "very upset" with party Karnataka MP Ananthkumar Hegde's comments on Mahatma Gandhi, say sources.
While speaking to ANI in the national capital on January 30, the DCP of South-East Delhi, Chinmoy Biswal, spoke on firing in Jamia area. He said, "At around 01:30 pm in the afternoon, we saw a man and our team were deployed there
Addressing a group of minority refugees from Pakistan at the party headquarters here, he alleged that the Opposition is spreading misinformation that crores of refugees would enter India due to the enactment of the law and it will become difficult to handle them.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to issue any directive to the Centre on a PIL seeking to confer the Bharat Ratna on Mahatma Gandhi. Chief Justice S.A. Bobde observed that Gandhi is the 'Father of the Nation', and the people hold him in high esteem, which is far beyond any formal recognition.
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, who arrived in India on Tuesday for a 3-day visit, paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in New Delhi yesterday. Taking to Twiter, Bezos wrote paying my respects to someone who truly changed the world.
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been vandalized by some unidentified persons on Friday near Hari Krishna lake in Amreli district of Gujarat.
America's legendary civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to promote the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr and sought a budgetary allocation of USD 150 million for the next five years. Introduced to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, the House Bill (HR 5517) affirms the friendship between the two largest democracies of the world and honours the legacy and contributions of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King.
Two IITs and the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) have joined hands to develop 'Gandhipedia', an online repository of books, letters and speeches written by Mahatma Gandhi, to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary. The entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), an IIT Kharagpur statement said on Friday. In the first phase, over 40 books written by Mahatma Gandhi will be digitised and indexed and their portions tweeted
The 9-foot high, 800 kg bronze statue, created by well-known Indian artist Ram V Sutar, marks one of the tallest sculptures of the Father of the Nation outside India.
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A government booklet describing Mahatma Gandhi's death as an "accident" has triggered a row in Odisha, with political leaders and activists demanding an apology from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and immediate measures to correct the "blunder".
Bollywood celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Kangana Ranaut and others attended 150 Years of Gandhi event along with PM Narendra Modi.
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The resolution was cosponsored by a bipartisan group of 14 other lawmakers.
The UK government is all set to issue a commemorative coin in the honour of Mahatma Gandhi to mark his 150th birthday anniversary, said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid.
Mahatma Gandhi's portrait was defaced at Bapu Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district on Gandhi Jayanti by unidentified persons who wrote 'deshdrohi' (traitor) over it, the police said on Thursday.
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission on Thursday claimed that Khadi India's flagship store at Connaught Place here made a record sale of over Rs 1.27 crore on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.
A video of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Firoz Khan crying before Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary has gone viral on social media. In the video, Khan can be seen cleaning up a statue of the Bapu and weeping. The incident happened in Sambhal city of Uttar Pradesh.
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