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Times of India
February 16, 2018
NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Thursday gheraoed the administrative block and didn't let the vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar leave office. This was in protest against the mandatory attendance order. The students blocked all approaches and demanded rollback of the order evenÃÂ ...
Times of India (blog)
February 15, 2018
India has had 14 prime ministers in 70 years. The first, Jawaharlal Nehru was a man I saw being hero worshipped when I was very young. There was good reason to. When India won freedom, there were clearly two roads ahead. One was the Mahatma's: The road that led us to our past and yet connected,ÃÂ ...
NDTV
February 14, 2018
New Delhi: Members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University student's union central panel have been slapped fines of Rs. 10,000 each for "protesting" outside the administration block against the compulsory attendance move by the university. Circulars issued by Chief Proctor Kaushal Kumar today asked theÃÂ ...
NDTV
February 14, 2018
Jawaharlal Nehru Sought RSS Help When Pak Attacked Jammu And Kashmir: Uma Bharti ... Bhopal: Union minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday claimed Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought RSS assistance when Pakistan attacked Jammu and Kashmir soon after independence and Sangh volunteersÃÂ ...
NDTV
February 14, 2018
Books On PM Modi Outnumber Those On Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru In Maharashtra Order. In total 1,49,954 on PM Modi, 1,635 books on Pandit Nehru, India's first prime minister, have been ordered, while 4,343 books on Mahatma Gandhi and 79,388 books on Dr Ambedkar have been ordered.
The New Indian Express
February 12, 2018
RAICHUR: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stayed overnight in Raichur on Sunday. With his stay in the circuit house at Yermarus village on the outskirts of Raichur, the first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's great-grandson unknowingly scripted history. Rahul Gandhi stayed in the circuit house locatedÃÂ ...
Deccan Chronicle
February 10, 2018
Mr Modi, in his speech in Parliament, had said that Jawaharlal Nehru's policies were responsible for present day problems in Jammu and Kashmir. Training his guns against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr Kharge charged that the RSS never had any respect forÃÂ ...
National Herald
February 10, 2018
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday tweeted a video of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh praising India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, on his birth centenary, November 14, 2015. Jawaharlal Nehru was also the founder of National Herald and it's sister publications Navjivan andÃÂ ...
The Quint
February 9, 2018
People on Twitter started refuting the MEA's claim, asserting that Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first PM, was actually the first Indian PM to visit Palestine. Among them was Gaurav Pandhi, who is associated with the Congress, who also shared a photo of Nehru meeting UN Troops in the Gaza Strip in 1960 toÃÂ ...
The Hitavada
February 7, 2018
The 45th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Environment Exhibition for Children (Regional Level) 2018 is being organised by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan Jabalpur Region at Kendriya Vidyalaya No 1 GCF Jabalpur on Tuesday and Wednesday with a view to encourage, populariseÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
February 7, 2018
... Chand Mahajan to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It was October 26, 1947, and the meeting in Nehru's residence would eventually decide the future of Jammu and Kashmir. Angered by Mahajan's threat, Nehru told the J&K PM, “Mahajan, Go away.”.
The Wire
February 7, 2018
Narendra Modi does not agree but the world has never hesitated in recognising Jawaharlal Nehru as a historical figure who left a mark on India and the world. When Nehru died in 1964, the New York Times plainly referred to him as the “maker of modern India”; the Economist ran a cover story titled “WorldÃÂ ...
Firstpost
February 7, 2018
Modi said that an overwhelming number of Congress Working Committee members wanted Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to become the prime minister but Jawaharlal Nehru was selected over him to lead the country. "What kind of democracy was that?" the prime minister asked. It seems Congress forgot toÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 6, 2018
NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration may find itself in a spot over violation of University Grants Commission's regulations regarding financial matters. The university not only failed to comply with UGC's order of October 2017 (a copy of which is with TOI) in recoveringÃÂ ...
MarineLink
February 6, 2018
India's biggest container port Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) handled 0.418 million TEUs in January this year, which was highest ever container traffic handled during a month the port and increase of 13 percent over the same month last year. "JNPT's sustained efforts in creating trade-friendlyÃÂ ...
The Quint
January 26, 2018
Jawaharlal Nehru held office as Secretary for State (the head of government) of the Union of India throughout this period and governed the country through the Government of India Act (1935). During this gradual transition phase, the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly (also the interimÃÂ ...
Architectural Digest India
January 26, 2018
Visiting Anand Bhawan feels, enticingly, like being let loose in a home whose residents are away on holiday, but have left instructions that the vases must always have fresh flowers. There is an almost illicit pleasure in wandering through these rooms where the Nehrus lived, ate and read, instead of lookingÃÂ ...
JOC.com
January 24, 2018
APM Terminals-operated Gateway Terminals India (GTI) in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) continues to shore up its productivity, enabling shippers using India's largest container port to gate in and out their shipments at a faster pace. As competition increases with PSA Terminal's impending entry, GTI,ÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
January 24, 2018
A booklet distributed by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM)'s Madhya Pradesh unit to lakhs of students to prepare for an “international general knowledge competition'' on BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay describes Jawaharlal Nehru as “greedy for power”. A chapter titled Akhand Bharat read,ÃÂ ...
NDTV
January 24, 2018
New Delhi: Lal Bahadur Shastri was not ideologically hostile towards the RSS like Jawaharlal Nehru and would often invite its chief Guru Golwalkar for consultations when he was prime minister, veteran BJP leader LK Advani has said. Describing Mr Shastri as a "dedicated Congressman" in an article in theÃÂ ...
India Today
January 23, 2018
A book titled 'Mere Deendayal' published by the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh has called Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister, 'greedy for power'. The book also holds Nehru, along with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, responsible for the partition of the country. Cover of theÃÂ ...
Deccan Chronicle
January 23, 2018
Bhopal: A book, circulated among 30 lakh students across Madhya Pradesh by the ruling BJP on Tuesday, to help them prepare for general knowledge quiz competition on the life of the saffron ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya, has called Jawaharlal Nehru “power hungry” and “responsible for partition ofÃÂ ...
News18
January 22, 2018
Senior RSS leader Manmohan Vaidya on Monday said Jawaharlal Nehru was not anti-India, but his ideology was different from Patel, the home minister, Munshi and even ... "If Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a symbol of un-Indianness, the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is a symbol of Indianness.
DailyO
January 14, 2018
Claude Arpi's latest book, Tibet: The Last Months of a Free Nation, is an original, one-of-its-kind account of how India lost the "Roof of the World" not because of the long-held notion of the great Chinese betrayal, but because of the monumental failure of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and hisÃÂ ...
Greater Kashmir
January 14, 2018
Thirty five years back, like Banquo's ghost, a couple of questions haunted my mind at regular intervals. Why Sheikh Abdullah, the man Friday of Jawaharlal Nehru who had greeted Indian troops on their landing at Srinagar airport on October 27, 1947, and made the “accession” of the State possible was sixÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 12, 2018
NEW DELHI: After Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union protested against the compulsory attendance for all categories, the teachers' union too has decided to not cooperate with the "penalty being imposed on students and teachers alike". The students and teachers, on Friday, staged a protestÃÂ ...
India.com
January 12, 2018
New Delhi, January 12: The Jawaharlal Nehru University has made minimum 75 per cent attendance compulsory for all part-time, BA, MA, M.Sc, M. Tech, MPH, PG Diploma and M.Phil students. The circular was issued by Assistant Registrar (Evaluation) Sajjan Singh, based on recommendations of theÃÂ ...
The Hindu
January 12, 2018
MTC bus stops on both directions of Jawaharlal Nehru Main Road in Vadapalani have to be relocated as vehicles, moving towards and coming from the new flyover get stranded near these facilities, thereby creating traffic snarls. This situation is the result of these MTC bus stops being located too close toÃÂ ...
Zee News
January 10, 2018
Reports said that Mukul, who used to daily commute from Ghaziabad to JNU, didn't return home on Monday, following which his family members started looking for him. Mukul's kin informed the university authorities, who then went through the CCTV footages. In the one of the CCTV footage, Mukul is seenÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 3, 2018
NEW DELHI — I grew up with an aversion to India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. He was the towering figure of the postcolonial world. Harrow- and Cambridge-educated, he was one of the architects of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought a third way through the odious binaries of the ColdÃÂ ...
NDTV
January 2, 2018
New Delhi: A decomposed body of a 40-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in the jungles of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi this evening. The man - identified as Rampravesh - was suspected to have committed suicide around six-seven days ago, police said. Comments. Close [X]ÃÂ ...
Swarajya
January 1, 2018
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was established back in 1969. Even in 1965, when the bill for its formation was introduced in Parliament, it was held that this should not be just another university but instead a centre for “scientific socialism”. The first vice chancellors and senior professors at the universityÃÂ ...
The Hindu
January 1, 2018
While Jawaharlal Nehru advised the U.S., the then Soviet Union, and other big powers to abjure force and work towards disarmament, he was himself faced with a dilemma in 1961: whether or not to use force to liberate Goa. It was an agonising decision for a person who adopted the Gandhian approach inÃÂ ...
Eleven Myanmar
January 1, 2018
Mr Gandhi's great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, a central figure in India's independence movement, is known as the architect of modern India. Nehru shaped the country according to the beliefs of socialism - for instance, the state, rather than the private sector, should control key economic sectors fromÃÂ ...
Eleven Myanmar
December 31, 2017
Mr Gandhi's great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, a central figure in India's independence movement, is known as the architect of modern India. Nehru shaped the country according to the beliefs of socialism - for instance, the state, rather than the private sector, should control key economic sectors fromÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 23, 2017
Career guidance prog at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad ... The one-day programme, which will be organized in association with the University Industry Interaction Centre of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) will be held on December 30 at the varsityÃÂ ...
Zee News
December 22, 2017
Kolkata: Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday said India`s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru`s push for an "alien philosophy" of secularism didn`t succeed in the country and failed to secure amity between religions. "He had tried to bring in an alien philosophy of secularism which didn`t work, isn`tÃÂ ...
Livemint
December 9, 2017
Mumbai: Union shipping and ports minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said 24 companies have offered to invest over Rs60,000 crore in a special economic zone adjoining the country's largest container port Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). “Twenty-four companies have already offered to come (and) setÃÂ ...
Firstpost
December 6, 2017
"When the country's first president, Rajendra Prasad, a son of Bihar's soil, had performed a puja at the Somnath temple in Gujarat, the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was a proponent of pseudo-secularism, had expressed his strong disapproval," the senior BJP leader tweeted. "Guided by theÃÂ ...
The Better India
December 31, 1999
He sent his deputy Prime Minister Ram Lal Batra with the proposal of accession, and two letters to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Patel seeking military help. Even though Batra had reached Delhi, with Chand already in the national capital, there were few signs of theÃÂ ...
NDTV
December 31, 1999
Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union Calls For Complete 'Lock-Down' On Friday. In a note issued by the varsity on Thursday evening, students were told that requests for fellowships/scholarships will be processed only if the concerned students have achieved the minimum attendance (75 per cent).
Times of India (blog)
December 31, 1999
The first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, of India had committed several mistakes in the resolution of Kashmir issue. First time, since India got independence, in a Parliament that Prime Minister had delivered a bold speech and blamed Pandit Nehru about the Kashmir issue and PM Modi is absolutelyÃÂ ...
DailyO
December 31, 1999
It is mentioned on multiple occasions that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was against the renovation of Somnath temple. And each time, emotions run amok, crowds cheer, politicians argue, and the rational disagree. Nehru was not against resurrection of Somnath temple - he was against the involvement of stateÃÂ ...
Outlook India
December 31, 1999
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday hit-out at former finance minister P. Chidambaram for his remark on 'peace' situation in Jammu and Kashmir. BJP leader Sambit Patra blamed "misgiving of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's misadventures" for the current situation in Kashmir.
The Indian Express
December 31, 1999
Foremost among them was the first prime minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru. For him, having a secular state was a crucial mark of modernity. “We have only done something which every country does, except for a few misguided and backward countries,” he said in the Constituent Assembly debates.
The Asian Age
December 31, 1999
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has declared Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust as a Special Planning Authority so that it can fast-track the development of its 277-hectare Special Economic Zone (SEZ). This will help in planning for SEZ and provide immense flexibility to the port management.
Scroll.in
December 31, 1999
He received Indian citizenship with the assistance of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and heard the early stages of Raj Narain's challenge to Indira Gandhi's 1971 election victory. He was unusual even among those British officials who stayed on in India after Independence. But his life still containsÃÂ ...
The Hindu
December 30, 2017
According to a research paper in the Journal of Indian History (1975), Salazar described Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru “a susceptible and mistrusting politician.” He expressed his worry about “Nehru following a continuous policy of absorption and incorporation of small states of Hindustan.”à...
Times of India
December 29, 2017
NEW DELHI: One-time Congress MP and now a BJP minister. And a Muslim to boot. M J Akbar lent spirited support for the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017+ , which provoked fiery exchanges in Lok Sabha. Akbar said Jawaharlal Nehru had cited the Hindu Code Bill as hisÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
December 27, 2017
Foremost among them was the first prime minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru. For him, having a secular state was a crucial mark of modernity. “We have only done something which every country does, except for a few misguided and backward countries,” he said in the Constituent Assembly debates.
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