Martyrs Day
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Accession Day in J&K 2020 public holiday list; Sheikh Abdullah's birth anniv, Martyrs' Day dropped
India | Dec 28, 2019, 07:59 AM ISTAccording to the list issued late on Friday night by G L Sharma, the deputy secretary of the General Administration Department, 27 public holidays will be observed throughout the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2020, compared to 28 in the previous calendar year.
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Mamata Banerjee to hold 'Martyrs Day' rally today, accuses BJP of foulplay
India | Jul 21, 2019, 10:30 AM ISTTrinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP-led Central government of trying to foil her party's 'Martyrs Day' rally on Sunday by operating only 30 per cent of the trains usually run on other Sundays. Talking to reporters after visiting the venue of the rally to take stock of the preparations, Banerjee said every party has the right to host rallies and programmes and that should not be taken away.
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Rift in Jammu and Kashmir Congress over Martyrs' Day issue
National | Jul 19, 2019, 07:23 AM ISTThe rift came to the fore with senior state Congress leader Saifuddin Soz on Thursday slamming his party colleague Vikramaditya Singh for his "obnoxious remarks" on the developments that took place in 1931 and wrote to Rahul Gandhi, demanding his expulsion from the party.
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Martyrs' Day 2018: Why Shaheed Diwas is observed on January 30 every year?
Books & Culture | Jan 30, 2018, 08:31 AM ISTMany school conduct functions on this day in which students croon patriotic songs and perform plays.
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On Martyr’s Day, a letter in Urdu from Bhagat Singh to his younger brother
India | Mar 23, 2017, 01:47 PM ISTExactly 86 years ago, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru – the three revered figures of the Indian freedom struggle – were hanged on March 31, 1931 in Punjab’s Hussainwala (now in Pakistan).
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Faux Pas: Chandigarh Municipal Corp morphs US army as Indian on hoardings
India | Mar 23, 2015, 11:34 AM ISTNew Delhi: Chandigarh Municipal Corporation created a blunder on Sunday when it used a picture of US Army personnel to denote Indian Army soldiers on its hoardings honouring Martyrs Day across the city.The picture was
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Martyrs Day: Govt offices across India to observe 2 minute silence
India | Jan 14, 2015, 04:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: The government has sent instructions to all states and central government departments to observe two minutes silence all over India on Martyrs Day i.e. January 30 as a mark of respect for the
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Mamata Banerjee to continue movement against fuel price, rail fare hike
National | Jul 22, 2014, 11:24 AM ISTKolkata: Assailing the Narendra Modi government for hiking fuel prices and railway fares, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said her party Trinamool Congress would carry on with its movement to combat such policies."They
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BJP's LS seats in Bengal will become zero in next polls, says Mamata Banerjee
National | Jul 21, 2014, 07:26 PM ISTKolkata: Attacking the BJP for hiking fuel prices and railway fares, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said the two seats the party won in the state in the recent Lok Sabha polls will
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Stage set for TMC rally today
India | Jul 21, 2014, 06:30 AM ISTKolkata: The stage is set for Trinamool Congress' Martyr's Day rally today in memory of 13 Youth Congress activists who died in police firing in 1993. Today would be the 21st anniversary of the Martyr's
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Kashmiri Pandits observe black day
National | Jul 13, 2014, 07:00 PM ISTJammu: As separatists called for a strike in Kashmir Valley to observe Martyrs' day today, several organizations representing Kashmiri Pandits observed ‘black day' here and held protests describing it as a day of “loot and
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Strike, security restrictions close Kashmir
India | Jul 14, 2013, 12:37 PM ISTSrinagar, Jul 14: Businesses were closed and troops patrolled the streets in Kashmir on Saturday as separatists rejecting Indian rule called a strike on an annual holiday marking the anniversary of a bloody 1931 uprising.Martyrs'