Each worker will be involved and will be given responsibility, he added. Sidhu said tickets would be allotted on the basis of merit.
Referring to his grandmother and the then prime minister India Gandhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said she took 32 bullets for her country but the ruling BJP government forgot to mention her name during an event in New Delhi.
Heroes of the 1971 War, Army veterans and families who lost their kin fighting for the country were offered a memento and a shawl as a gesture of honor by the Congress leader, who shared the dais with them at the rally, the first by him ahead of the next year's Assembly elections in the state.
In a video released on YouTube on former prime minister Indira Gandhi's 37th death anniversary, Rahul Gandhi described the day of her grandmother's funeral as the 'second most difficult day of my life'.
Gandhi, the then prime minister, was assassinated in 1984 by two of her security guards linked to Khalistani extremists.
When I look back now, I sometimes think we were the happiest and most aromatic on Sundays, when Baba would don a white kurta and pajama, brush his curls, walk around the house in his soft Kolhapuris, managing to somehow look like a young Uttam Kumar with a classical bent of mind.
However, Rahul Gandhi said that the current political scenario in the country cannot be compared to that during the Emergency as the Congress never tried to 'capture the country's institutional framework'
While talking about her new project, Kangana Ranaut said, that the movie will not be a biopic adding that it will be set around the time of Operation Blue Star and the Emergency.
Collaborating yet again with filmmaker Sai Kabir after 'Revolver Rani', Kangana shared that the movie is not a biopic of the former Prime Minister, but is a 'grand period film'
Rahul Gandhi being shoved around by UP police personnel at the Yamuna Expressway, on Thursday, was arguably the most politically potent image of the Congress leader yet.
Father-son duo who designed Statue of Unity given job of former PM's statue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the state on October 3 to inaugurate the Atal Rohtang Tunnel.
In Colonial India, the process of creating a civilian intelligence agency started only after the 1872 killing of the highest colonial official. In independent India, SPG and NSG were created only after the 1984 Indira Gandhi assassination, writes Vapalla Balachandran.
The SIT concluded that the “lack of interest shown by the police...” during the early stages and the manner in which judges “routinely” handed out acquittals to accused ensured that “there is no possibility of further investigation” in any of the 199 cases it scrutinized.
Sena made certain observations in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana' about gangster Karam Lala, saying he once headed an organisation of the Pathan community and drew inspiration from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who is also called Frontier Gandhi.
Karim Lala was one of the three top underworld dons of Mumbai for over two decades, from the sixties to the early eighties.
Alongside the poem, Priyanka Gandhi posted a black and white of her younger self playing with Indira Gandhi.
But it turned out that photo was not taken in the US but in USSR. In fact, the photo was not even taken in 1954 but in June 1955 in Magnitogorsk.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.