The chief Islamic cleric of Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was yet again not allowed to go to Srinagar's Jama Masjid for Friday prayers and deliver sermons on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, upon arriving in Marseille, paid tribute to the city's historical "significance" in India's freedom struggle, recalling the "courageous escape" attempt of "Veer" Savarkar and thanking the French activists who supported him during his time of peril.
In his latest book On Freedom, Yale historian Timothy Snyder provocatively asserts that “some Americans want to be tyrants.” The statement, while challenging, invites strict scrutiny regarding its implications for American society and its ongoing democratic challenge in the age of Donald Trump.
White canes have a significant contribution to make visually impaired people self-reliant in society.
In his message to the All India Women’s Conference in 1936, Gandhi’s views on the issue of women’s freedom and strength in the struggle to build a humane and exploitation-free society was reflected.
"What an amazing weekend ... I felt like I was on cloud 9 the whole time !!! I actually got my first glass of champagne at the most beautiful restaurant I've ever seen last night."
The struggles and events in the freedom struggle have their own inspirations and messages, which contemporary India can imbibe, says Preash Rawal.
"When I last met Frontier Gandhi in 1987 when he visited India for the final time in Mumbai's Raj Bhavan, he told me that patience was prescribed again and again in the Holy Quran, and patience and non-violence were very close to each other."
Delivering the LC Jain Memorial Lecture earlier this month, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court A P Shah raised concerns over the functioning of the Supreme Court. Published here are extracts from this thoughtful speech.
The United States pressed all nations Saturday to "stand with the forces of freedom" in Venezuela, encouraged by a tougher European line as Russia stood in the minority in backing embattled leader Nicolas Maduro.
