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India Today
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
News Menu, May 19: Parliament panel briefing on Op Sindoor, India-US trade deal
Good morning, on May 19, 1910, Nathuram Godse was born. A divisive figure, his Beretta fired three bullets that scarred India's soul. We will talk about a forgotten chapter of his life that deals with the Mahatma he murdered. But first the news menu of India Misri's Sindoor BriefingForeign Secretary Vikram Misri to brief Shashi Tharoor's parliamentary panel on Monday on India-Pakistan tensions, detailing India's strikes on Pak terror sites in Operation Sindoor. Tharoor's appointment as head of the panel has already caused a lot of With Congress' Jairam Ramesh urging delegation members to follow conscience, and Sanjay Raut calling it a 'baraat' to boycott, politics is turning acidic. Calm down guys, spit the venom and have cold Spread: Global Blitz, Cong splitSeven delegations, 33 nations, India's diplomatic outreach on 'Operation Sindoor' ready to launch like a swamp of drones. Teams to visit key partner nations, including UNSC member states, starting next asks leaders picked by the government to listen to their conscience. We will not boycott this delegation, will not politicise it, says Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. That's like being sandwiched between deshbhakti and Such people are speaking the language of the Director General of Pak Army's PR wing, says BJP's Shehzad PoonawallaBone of Contention: High Court Sambhal VerdictadvertisementIndia Today tracks Allahabad High Court's likely judgment in a civil revision petition in the ongoing dispute between Jama Masjid and Harihar Mandir in the mosque committee seeking a stay on trial court proceedings, this dish is simmering with tension, seasoned with communal Himanta-Gogoi SpatIndia Today covers Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accusing Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi of visiting Pakistan on ISI's invite. Gogoi calls Himanta 'insane'; Congress alleges corruption cover-up. This one's layered with slander, served with regional Soup: Haryana Spy ScandalPolice reveal how Pak recruits influencers for spying. Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra was being developed as an 'asset' by Pakistani intelligence operatives, say cops. Probe underway into links with Odisha YouTuber. "Can't she call friends in Pak?" father defends a UP man arrested on charges of spying for Pak, crossed the border to allegedly share info, arrested by UP Anti-Terror Squad from Moradabad on Hot: Army's Sindoor FootageIndia Today highlights the Indian Army's second video release of Operation Sindoor's 'lava-like' planning, showing neutralised enemy terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid was killed by unidentified gunmen in Sindh. Was behind three attacks in India. Who's cooking them across the border?advertisementBusiness Lunch: India-US Trade AgreementThe final phase of negotiations aims for conclusion by early July. The US President has proposed a trade agreement with India that would have no tariffs on a wide range of American South: Stalin rallies non-BJP statesTamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin urges counterparts in eight states, including West Bengal, to oppose the Presidential reference to the Supreme Court on deadlines for the President and Governor over Bills and batted for a coordinated legal Bites: Three killed four in family clashAn old dispute flares up between two families in a slum area in Mumbai's Borivali, taking a devastating turn on Sunday. Three men killed, injuries to four others.4 children die of suffocation after being trapped in locked a heart-wrenching tragedy, four children suffocate to death inside a locked car in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayanagaram on Prasad: Mansarovar Yatra from SikkimThe Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is set to resume via Nathula from June this year, marking the end of a five-year suspension caused by the Doklam standoff in 2017 and the COVID-19 Trump to speak to Putin- ZelenskyyTrump will speak with Putin and Zelenskyy on Monday to discuss a possible end to the Ukraine war. The Kremlin says Putin could meet Zelenskiy if agreement is reached. The thought of truce itself is Ashoka University faculty condemns Associate Professor's arrest, IMF imposes 11 new conditions on Pak, EAM Jaishankar embarks on 3-nation visit on Monday; Pak Foreign Minister Dar to visit China for talks with Chinese and Afghan counterparts; Supreme Court to hear Madhya Pradesh Minister's plea on his remarks on Colonel Qureshi; Bangladeshi actor who played Sheikh Hasina in Mujib biopic arrested in Cake: Godse's TragicomedyOn Nathuram Godse's birth anniversary, India Today revisits the tragicomic events of January 20, when the extremist and his gang failed to kill Mahatma Gandhi because of a bad Bite: The Carpenters sang, 'Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.' But Mahatma Gandhi argued, 'There is no good in living a life bereft of struggles, death is sweeter then.'Here's to another Monday—the beginning of another week of glorious InMust Watch
Indian Express
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Cong should pick ‘lungi' as party symbol': Assam CM Himanta Sarma; Cong says BJP ought to make Godse's gun as its symbol
Ahead of the panchayat elections in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday took a dig at the Congress party over its distribution of 'dhotis' to people when it was in power and said the party can pick 'lungi', an attire worn mostly by Bengali-speaking Muslim men in the North East, as its party symbol instead of hand. However, in a tongue-in-cheek response, state Congress president Bhupen Bora said that the BJP could pick Nathuram Godse's revolver as its party symbol, indicating Godse's revolver was used to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Many groups of Bengali Muslims of Assam have been at the receiving end of allegations by the BJP of being 'illegal immigrants' from Bangladesh. While addressing a poll rally at Dhemaji district on Monday, CM Sarma said: 'Ask Congress if they had free admission in colleges at their time. No. Was a fee needed for 10th standard admission forms? Yes. Was free rice given? Had the Dhemaji Medical and Engineering Colleges been built then? The answer is 'no'. There were only lungi and dhoti (during the Congress regime). That's why I ask the Congress people, they ought to change the (party) symbol from hand to 'lungi'. Congress doesn't understand anything else,' he said. Soon after, Congress chief Bora said his party considers all dresses equal, whether it is a lungi, dhoti, pajama, or trousers. 'Our perspective at Congress is inclusive. If the BJP assumes they can dictate our choice of symbol, why don't they answer why their own symbol is a lotus? They ought to replace their symbol with Nathuram Godse's gun used to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi,' he said. The panchayat elections in Assam are scheduled to be held in two phases — on May 2 and May 7 — and the results will be declared on May 11. Assam has 21,920 seats in gram panchayats, 2,192 seats in Anchalik Parishads, and 397 in zilla parishads. The panchayat polls were scheduled to be held in 27 out of 34 districts of the state, as the other seven are governed by autonomous councils. As per the State Election Commission, 1.80 crore people will exercise their franchise in the panchayat polls this year. CM Himanta Biswa Sarma had said on Friday that 348 candidates were elected unopposed in the three-tier panchayat polls and 325 of them were from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). As per reports, the NDA has already secured 37 zilla parishad (35 BJP and 2 AGP) and 288 Anchalik Panchayat (259 BJP and 29 AGP) seats unopposed, Sarma had said in an X post.
NDTV
22-04-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
'Lungi' vs 'Godse's Revolver': BJP, Congress' New Jabs Before Assam Polls
Guwahati: The BJP and Congress' Assam units traded juvenile barbs - each declaring the other change its electoral symbol - before next month's panchayat election. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mocked the Congress' distribution of dhotis and suggested it pick a lungi as its symbol. The Congress responded by suggesting the BJP pick 'Godse's revolver' - a reference to Nathuram Godse assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. The spat erupted after the Chief Minister claimed no development had taken place in the northeastern state when the Congress was in power between 2001 and 2016. Addressing an election rally in Dhemaji on Monday, Mr Sarma said, "Ask the Congress... did you have free admission in colleges then? No. Was a fee required for Class X admission forms? Yes. Was there free rice... were the Dhemaji medical and engineering colleges built? No..." "There was only lungi and dhoti. That is why I tell the Congress people they should change the symbol from the hand to lungi. Congress doesn't understand anything else..." he said, referring repeatedly to the 'lungi', a piece of cloth men in the northeast use to wrap around their waists. In the region the 'lungi' is widely associated with Bengali-speaking Muslims, a community the BJP has claimed, in every election in the area, includes 'illegal immigrants' from Bangladesh. Responding for the Congress, Bhupen Kumar Borah, the party's state unit boss, told reporters the opposition outfit considers all dresses equal, whether lungi, dhoti, pyjama, or trousers. "The perspective of the Congress is inclusive. If the BJP thinks it can dictate our choice of symbol... let them answer, 'why is their own symbol a lotus?'. They should replace their symbol with the gun which Nathuram Godse used to assassinate Gandhi." The panchayat polls in Assam will be held in two phases - May 2 and May 7. Counting of votes will be held on May 11.
Associated Press
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
Today in History: January 30, Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
Today in history: On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Also on this date: In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing over 9,000, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived. In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities. In 1969, The Beatles staged an unannounced concert atop Apple headquarters in London that would be their last public performance. In 1972, 13 Catholic civil rights marchers were shot and killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as 'Bloody Sunday.' In 2017, President Donald Trump fired Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his controversial refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. In 2020, health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States.
