Vallabhbhai patel

The Statue of Unity is a statue of Vallabhbhai Patel, the first home minister of the country. With a height of 182 metres, it is the world’s tallest statue. read more

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Younger Indians are rightly appalled that the party of the freedom movement believes that only a fifth-generation dynast can lead it. Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka may think they owe it to the Congress to stay in politics. They owe it to the country to ... read more

For him, religion was not nationality. All citizens, irrespective of their beliefs, had a right to India read more

A contested figure in Pakistan’s discourse, Gandhi’s ideas and humanism retain relevance for both nations read more

The men and women who — within the government, or as part of the Opposition and civil society — carried forward Mahatma Gandhi’s work. They humanised power and held it to account. They fought for economic self-reliance, equality and religious plural... read more

The opposition’s criticisms do not hold. The government’s move is legally sound. Kashmir is an internal affair. read more

Addressing the BJP parliamentary party meeting, Modi also asked Rajya Sabha members to visit constituencies where the BJP organisation was weak. read more

The cult of Nathuram Godse is no more marginal. Its members include not only BJP MPs but also prominent Sangh ideologues. Its representatives sit in Parliament, and may even be in the Council of Ministers read more

The Congress had won Bardoli Lok Sabha seat in 2009 but the BJP won it in 2014 polls. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed the Congress for an ongoing agricultural crisis and said if Vallabhbhai Patel, who was India’s first home minister, had become the nation’s first prime minister, farmers would have been prosperous. read more

Claims companies turned down requests from various organisations working for the differently abled saying all the funds were exhausted read more

They stood up for principles. But the Congress lawyers of today appear repeatedly on behalf of groups that seek to deny women equal rights read more

The foundation-laying ceremony, on October 31, 2013, kick-started Modi’s 2014 Lok Sabha campaign. And its completion and inauguration, exactly 5 years later on October 31, is being seen as the beginning of Modi’s campaign for a second term in next year’s... read more

The Uttarakhand BJP will initiate the campaign with ‘Kavyanjali’ on September 16 — a poetic tribute to former PM Vajpayee. This will be followed by ‘Karyanjali’, a nine-day plan under which medical camps would be organised from September 17 — PM Modi’s... read more