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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...

  #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, ...

------------------------------------------------------------------ #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...

  ------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : Monday, December 21, 2020. 07:28 AM. 2317. ##Tribute to the Encyclopedia of RSS : 20-Dec-2020 : Seshadri Chari : Organiser : Media Report.  ------------------------------------------------------------  ###In Baburao ji’s death, we have lost a colossus of a person, an encyclopedia on the RSS, journalism, Sanskrit and much more than what one can comprehend. After all he was one of the very few surviving veterans of the RSS who has not just seen but worked closely with all the six Sarsanghachalaks of the RSS     Anyone who stops learning is old, goes the adage. Madhav Govind Vaidya, Baburao, as he was known to many, was one person who took this seriously. An avid reader and a writer at the same time, Baburao ji was active at 97, to prove that age is only a number.  Baburao ji was one of the few persons I had the privilege to depend on when I was asked to take on the responsibility as editor of ...

  -------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : Saturday, December 12, 2020. 11:51 AM. 2316. ---------------------------------------------------- ## Hijab clad girl intrudes into a temple in Kerala; Complaint lodged by the temple committee for violating sanctity : 2-Dec-2020 : Organiser : Media Report.  -------------------------------------------- A complaint has been lodged at the Wandoor Police Station in Kerala against an unidentified Hijab wearing girl who intruded into Vanniyambalam temple in Malappuram district. A picture of this girl sitting inside a temple wearing shoes was widely circulated in social media. The complainant Sarath Kumar, secretary at the Sree Thripurasundari Devi Temple, on his complaint noted that the accused was intentionally doing this to trigger communal disturbances in the area.  ---------------------- The complaint accused the unidentified girl of hurting his religious sentiments and said that the girl’s act is punishable und...

  --------------------------------------------- #OPINION : Thursday, December 10, 2020. 06:31 PM. 2315. NEW INDIA SHINING : ------------------------------------------------------------- ##Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs Bhumi Pujan for New Parliament Building : 10-Dec-2020 : Organiser : Media Report. ----------------------------------------------    Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of the New Parliament Building at Sansad Marg in Parliament Complex by performing religious rituals at the site. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep S. Puri, Deputy Chairman Rajya Sabha Harivansh Narayan Singh and several others Union Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State, Members of Parliament are also present on the occasion.  Speaking on the occasion, Shri Narendra Modi said, “In India, democracy has been a medium of ...

  #OPINION : Wednesday, December 09, 2020. 10:49 AM. 2314. A tale of utmost sacrifice: Know the Chhattisgarh girl fighting on a BJP ticket in Kerala : 06-Dec-2020 : Organiser : Media Report.     ---------------------------------------------------------- One can hardly identify that Jyothi, BJP candidate at the Palathulli division of the Kollengode block panchayat in Palakkad, is a non native. She speaks fluent Malayalam and dresses like a typical Malayalee girl, but she is a native of Bacheli in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Jyothi would have never thought that she would someday become Kerala’s daughter-in-law when she married Palathulli native P V Vikas who is a CISF jawan.  Jyothi lost her right hand while saving an unknown CISF jawan (now her husband Vikas). “The day was January 3, 2010. I was seated just behind Vikas in the bus. Vikas was returning to his CISF unit at Bailadila in Dantewada district. Vikas was sleeping by resting his head on the window rail...