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On the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's, Government of India declared January 23 as Parakram Diwas to commemorate his indomitable spirit and selfless service to the nation

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  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  #Opinion : Tuesday, January 26, 2021. 06:57. AM. 2321. THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE : 23-Jan-2021 : Dr Bhuvan Lall : Organiser : Media Report. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  On the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's, Government of India declared January 23 as Parakram Diwas to commemorate his indomitable spirit and selfless service to the nation   On an afternoon in the summer of 1944, the British and Japanese warplanes screamed across the peaceful skies dropping death over the dense jungles of Imphal and Kohima along the India-Burma border. On the frontline, there was no time for fear. Half a million men from all corners of the world were locked in one of the goriest battles of World War II. Firmly holding the tricolour, the Indian National Army advanced with the war cry "Delhi...
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  #OPINION : Tuesday, January 12, 2021. 11:49 AM. 2318. ##Nehru rejected the king’s offer to make Nepal a part of India, says Pranab Mukherjee in Autobiography : 06-Jan-2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declined Nepal’s King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah's offer that the Himalayan nation be made a province of India, writes late President Pranab Mukherjee in his autobiography, 'The Presidential Years'. While expressing his views on former prime ministers and presidents of India, he mentioned, “Every PM has his or her own style of functioning. Lal Bahadur Shastri took positions that were very different from that of Nehru. There can be divergent perceptions among PMs, even if they happen to come from the same party, on issues such as foreign policy, security and internal administration.” -------------------------------  Nehru dealt with Nepal very diplomatically, ...

##No permanent membership of Africa in UNSC is 'historical anomaly': India : 07-Jan-2021 : Nirendra Dev Organiser : Media Report.

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------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : Thursday, January 07, 2021. 02:05 PM. 2317. ##No permanent membership of Africa in UNSC is 'historical anomaly': India  : 07-Jan-2021 : Nirendra Dev  Organiser : Media Report. -------------------------------------------------------------- New Delhi: India has said that it backs the rise of Africa but lamented that till date, Africa does not have "a single voice amongst the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council". "The African continent does not even have a single voice amongst the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council to defend its own interests. This historical anomaly needs to be corrected by supporting the Ezulwini consensus," Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla said making intervention at the UNSC open debate on the ‘Challenges of Maintaining Peace and Security in Fragile Contexts’ on January 6.  He said: "It needs to be acknowledg...