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  • 'Nehru invited RSS to R-Day parade': BJP's Amit Malviya counters Congress' criticism

    'Nehru invited RSS to R-Day parade': BJP's Amit Malviya counters Congress' criticism

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi's praised the RSS in his Independence Day address.

  • 4,078 days in power: Modi overtakes Indira Gandhi to become India’s second-longest serving PM | In pics

    4,078 days in power: Modi overtakes Indira Gandhi to become India’s second-longest serving PM | In pics

    PM Modi's latest milestone comes after he completes another day in office on July 25, overtaking Gandhi's unbroken term of 4,077 days that lasted from January 24, 1966, to March 24, 1977.

  • PMML society to legally contest Sonia Gandhi’s claim to Nehru’s papers: What are Private Papers of public figures?

    PMML society to legally contest Sonia Gandhi’s claim to Nehru’s papers: What are Private Papers of public figures?

    Nehru's Private Papers included letters to Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Babu Jagjivan Ram, among others.

  • Prime Ministers Museum and Library to legally pursue Sonia Gandhi for return of Nehru papers

    Prime Ministers Museum and Library to legally pursue Sonia Gandhi for return of Nehru papers

    The papers reclaimed by Sonia Gandhi include letters exchanged between Nehru and Jayaprakash Narayan, Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Aruna Asaf Ali, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Babu Jagjivan Ram.

  • Sardar Patel’s vision could have spurred faster growth than Nehruvian model

    Sardar Patel’s vision could have spurred faster growth than Nehruvian model

    Sanghnomics: Had Sardar Patel led India, economic policies may have focused on production, fiscal discipline, and minimal state control, avoiding Nehruvian socialism. This could have accelerated India's transition to an open economy by two decades

  • Strategic autonomy would have been a subset of Indian non-alignment, says 'Nehru Years' author

    Strategic autonomy would have been a subset of Indian non-alignment, says 'Nehru Years' author

    What is the legacy of Indian Non-Alignment, is strategic autonomy non-alignment by another name, and how Indian Non-Alignment was non-imperialist in its DNA—'The Nehru Years' author, Swapna Kona Nayudu, explains.

  • PM Memorial tells Rahul Gandhi to return Nehru's letters; what did ex-PM write to Edwina Mountbatten, asks BJP

    PM Memorial tells Rahul Gandhi to return Nehru's letters; what did ex-PM write to Edwina Mountbatten, asks BJP

    What intrigues me is what would have Nehru ji written to EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN that needed censoring and will LOP Rahul help getting back the letters between Nehru and Edwina, says Sambit Patra.

  • 1951 Rolls Royce ordered by Nehru for Baroda 'maharani' becomes flashpoint in marital dispute

    1951 Rolls Royce ordered by Nehru for Baroda 'maharani' becomes flashpoint in marital dispute

    The dispute of the estranged couple has reached the apex court after the Gwalior bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed a case lodged by the woman against her husband for alleged dowry demand and cruelty.

  • Children’s Day 2024: 50+ Best Wishes, Quotes, Messages, and Images to Share on Children's Day

    Children’s Day 2024: 50+ Best Wishes, Quotes, Messages, and Images to Share on Children's Day

    This Children’s Day, celebrate the joys, dreams, and endless possibilities of childhood. Take a moment to share these warm wishes, quotes, and messages with the young ones around you.

  • How Modi’s ‘Aatmanirbhar’ is different from Nehruvian self-reliance

    How Modi’s ‘Aatmanirbhar’ is different from Nehruvian self-reliance

    Sanghnomics: As Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan of 2020 is progressing it has become clear that it is totally different from the 1950s self-reliance policy of Pandit Nehru

  • Ameen Sayani’s Geetmala: How the British and a ban birthed a key chapter in free India’s sonic history

    Ameen Sayani’s Geetmala: How the British and a ban birthed a key chapter in free India’s sonic history

    When All India Radio banned the transmission of Hindi film songs, Ameen Sayani's Binaca Geetmala, on Sri Lanka's Radio Ceylon, from a former British military radio, would broadcast Bollywood songs and simple Hindustani, connecting the subcontinent's masses.

  • Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

    Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

    The veteran documentary filmmaker’s latest film Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam/The World is Family, which won Best Editing Award at IDFA Amsterdam 2023, is a remembrance of things past: of pre-Independence India through his family’s history.

  • Nehru's progressive ideas advanced India's social, economic development: Cong

    Nehru's progressive ideas advanced India's social, economic development: Cong

    Venugopal also said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is the architect of modern India. When he took over the reins of India's destiny, not a pin was manufactured in India.

  • Children’s Day 2023: Date, history, significance and celebrations

    Children’s Day 2023: Date, history, significance and celebrations

    Children's Day in India is celebrated every year on November 14. This date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of India’s first prime minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

  • Shyam Benegal on Bangla biopic Mujib: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a political leader who didn’t neglect domestic life

    Shyam Benegal on Bangla biopic Mujib: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a political leader who didn’t neglect domestic life

    ‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’, on Bangladesh's founding father, will release in multiple languages in India on October 27. The veteran filmmaker, the second Indian auteur after Ritwik Ghatak to make an India-Bangladesh government co-production, on his films and Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy.

  • Delhi's new national museum building has a French connection

    Delhi's new national museum building has a French connection

    The design of the world’s largest museum, located in the heart of New Delhi and spread over 1.17 lakh square metres, will be spearheaded by Agence France-Museum

  • Nehru offered Oppenheimer Indian citizenship in 'top secret' letter. Here's why

    Nehru offered Oppenheimer Indian citizenship in 'top secret' letter. Here's why

    J Robert Oppenheimer got an unexpected offer of Indian citizenship extended by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru due to the intervention of Homi J Bhabha.

  • Entrepreneur shares how goddess Lakshmi inspired JRD Tata to come up with 'Lakme'

    Entrepreneur shares how goddess Lakshmi inspired JRD Tata to come up with 'Lakme'

    A team representing the Tata Group was sent to Paris to find a name for the cosmetics brand.

  • Historical and sacred 'Sengol' to be installed in new Parliament building

    Historical and sacred 'Sengol' to be installed in new Parliament building

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the sacred symbol of fair and equitable governance, Sengol and will install it in the new Parliament House on May 28. This is the same Sengol that was accepted by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru at his residence on the night of August 14, 1947, in the presence of several leaders.

  • Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes in Maharashtra, Congress to distribute 600 copies of Jawaharlal Nehru's book on his birth anniversary

    Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes in Maharashtra, Congress to distribute 600 copies of Jawaharlal Nehru's book on his birth anniversary

    Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said 600 copies of Jawaharlal Nehru's book 'Discovery of India' will be distributed to the yatra participants on Monday, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of India's first prime minister.

  • PM Modi pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on birth anniversary

    PM Modi pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on birth anniversary

    Born in 1889, Nehru was a leading Congress leader and freedom fighter who served as the country's first prime minister. He died in office in 1964 and remains the longest serving Indn prime minister.

  • Maker of modern India: Congress pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on birth anniversary

    Maker of modern India: Congress pays tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on birth anniversary

    Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary in-charge organisation K C Venugopal, among others, offered floral tributes at Nehru's memorial Shanti Van in New Delhi.

  • Why is Children’s Day celebrated on Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday?

    Why is Children’s Day celebrated on Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday?

    Happy Children's Day 2022: Children's Day is marked with fervour across India, with contests and educational and motivational events for children.

  • What Rishi Sunak’s rise can tell Congress in India

    What Rishi Sunak’s rise can tell Congress in India

    Own up Jawaharlal Nehru’s role as the builder of Independent India’s capitalism, instead of persisting with the once-expedient rhetoric of socialism

  • Congress shares draft of Nehru's 'tryst with destiny' speech; he had written 'date with destiny'

    Congress shares draft of Nehru's 'tryst with destiny' speech; he had written 'date with destiny'

    Congress general secretary, Communications, Jairam Ramesh also shared the video of Nehru's speech delivered at the midnight session of the Constituent Assembly as India achieved independence on August 15, 1947

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