Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were among those who paid tributes to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary on Friday.
September 28, 2018The calendar features 24 film posters – two each for every month of the year – covering the actor’s popular films as well as the lesser-known ones.
September 3, 2018The doodle displays an animated image of Bradman, who played 52 Tests amassing scoring 6,996 runs at an unmatched average of 99.94.
August 27, 2018Born on 20 August 1944, Rajiv Gandhi served as prime minister from 1984 to 1989; he was assassinated on 21 May 1991
August 20, 2018Lal Singh accused the Kashmiri leadership of discriminating against the youth of Jammu in the matter of employment
August 13, 2018The PM hailed Chandra Shekhar Azad for his courage and Tilak for igniting the spark of patriotism in the hearts of Indians.
July 23, 2018Political leaders cutting across party lines paid homage to Mangal Pandey, India’s first freedom fighter, on Thursday on 19 July on the occasion of his 191st birth anniversary.
July 19, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to pay homage to the Congress leader who served as the 9th Prime Minister of India from 1991-1996.
June 28, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to freedom fighter and social activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on the latter’s 135th birth anniversary on Monday.
May 28, 2018President Kovind, officers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan paid floral tributes to the portrait of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in the Durbar Hall on Saturday.
May 19, 2018Though it marked Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s 158th birth anniversary like the several other events in the town on Wednesday, ‘Pochishe Boithak’ was a programme with a difference. The audience experienced a new theme for the poet’s birth anniversary celebrations, and it was presented by the Tagore Appreciation Society (TAS) at a hotel here. Ardent...
May 11, 2018Rabindranath Tagore's compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.
May 7, 2018Mamata Banerjee joined Congress leaders in remembering Motilal Nehru, former Congress party president and father of Jawaharlal Nehru, on the occasion of his 157th birth anniversary on Sunday.
May 6, 2018The President, who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, took to Twitter to hail the contribution of the distinguished air warrior who passed away on 16 September 2017 aged 98.
April 15, 2018Kundan Lal Saigal aka KL Saigal was considered the first superstar of Hindi film industry. In his career spanning 15 years, he sang around 200 songs and acted in 36 feature films. It’s KL Saigal’s 114th birth anniversary on April 11 and Google decided a doodle to him. The noted actor and singer gave his first performance when he...
April 11, 2018Born in Pabna in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in 1931, Sen touched the pinnacle of superstardom in cinema with her captivating screen presence and powerful acting calibre.
April 6, 2018West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday paid tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram on his birth anniversary.
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