Mahatma Gandhi News

VIJAYAWADA: Fasting for or against the bifurcation of the State is not Gandhian, said city-based Gandhian G. Lavanam and Boston-based Gandhian scholar Mark Lindley.

Himanshu Kumar is no Gandhi. Yet, he has Gandhian aspirations to the extreme. While Gandhi wanted to bring independence for the nation, Himanshu wants to bring peace and justice to the millions of tribals across the nation.

New Delhi, Dec 25 : Renaming the UPA flagship programme- the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act- after Mahatma Gandhi, extended initiatives for rural sanitation, safe drinking water and marketing facilities for artisans were the main features of the Rural Development Ministry during 2009.

When rules and missives fail to discipline lax employees, rope in Mahatma Gandhi.

TOP: Teachers from the Mahatma Gandhi institute and the executive of the Tobago Hindu Society.

Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck shakes hands with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi ahead of a meeting in yesterday India and Bhutan yesterday signed a dozen agreements on hydropower, civil aviation, health and IT after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

TAMBARAM: A family hailing from Andhra Pradesh was pulled up for dressing up a seven-year-old boy as Mahatma Gandhi and making him seek alms from passers-by in Tambaram on Monday.

DID YOU KNOW? Alarmed at the tumultuous reception Mahatma Gandhi received in Champaran, the British authorities served notice on him to leave the Province of Bihar.

VISAKHAPATNAM: In spite of a sharp divide in their political stances at the top level, bonhomie marks the relay fast camps organised by the Congress and the TDP at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the agitation for integrated Andhra Pradesh.

DID YOU KNOW? Alarmed at the tumultuous reception Mahatma Gandhi received in Champaran, the British authorities served notice on him to leave the Province of Bihar.

VISAKHAPATNAM: The onus of resolving the ongoing agitation for integrated Andhra Pradesh that erupted after the UPA Government's decision to start the process for separate Telanganga squarely lay with the centre, senior TDP leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao has said.

Parliament Thursday approved a bill renaming a flagship rural jobs scheme after Mahatma Gandhi.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Padayatras and relay fasts marked the continuing agitation for integrated Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama does not consider himself in the same league as Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa, but would nevertheless address critics who question his fitness for the Nobel Peace Prize even as he fights wars in two countries.

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three bills in 15 minutes without any discussion as opposition members protested vociferously against price rise and carving out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.

VIJAYAWADA: An atmosphere of political bonhomie prevailed on Mahatma Gandhi road in front of Swaraj Maidan on Tuesday.

'Rana has even gone so far as to claim to this Court that his beliefs are akin to those of Gandhi.' Shopping Festival US prosecutors have taken strong objection to Pakistani-American Mumbai terror attack suspect Tahawwur Rana's assertion that he believed in the principles of non-violence advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, claiming that he admired and ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: Even as it extended support to the ongoing 'samaikya Andhra' stir, the Andhra University Ikya Sanghatana wanted the university students to pursue the cause peacefully without giving room for violence.

Going on a fast-unto-death has long been used as a non-violent method of protest in Indian politics.

From the News Story: The oral history archive, held at Cambridge University, features more than 300 recordings, including first-hand accounts of meetings with Mahatma Gandhi and testimonies by freedom fighters whose terrorist acts aimed to force an end to British rule.