The main objective of celebrating World Hindi Diwas is to promote Hindi as an international language and strengthen its global presence. It is also a platform to bring together Hindi-speaking communities from different countries and celebrate their cultural diversity.
According to the author, her book is about power and its exercise by those who held the highest public office.
Dulat, who served as the central government's advisor on Jammu and Kashmir during former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's regime, also argued that talks with Pakistan should begin.
Tablets and smartphones were distributed to 60,000 students at the Ekana Stadium.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday is celebrated as the 'Good Governance Day' on December 25.
The six-lane 165-km long Yamuna Expressway connects Greater Noida in Gautam Buddha Nagar district with Agra.
A park and a public complex were named after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Friday, the area's civic body said.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Death Anniversary: It has been two years since the BJP stalwart took his last breath. A meaningful politician, an orator par-excellence, his contribution to literature was tremendous. Let's remember the former Indian prime minister with some of his couplets.
In 1999, Atal Bihar Vajpayee embarked on a historic journey to Pakistan. Popularly known as the the Lahore Summit, went down in history as a moment that could have resulted in a long lasting peace had it not been for the ill intensions of the Pakistani Army led by the then Pak Army Chief Parvez Musharraf. India TV's Political Editor Jayanta Ghoshal, in conversation with Sidhant Mamtany recalls the time when he travelled with PM Vajpayee to Pakistan. Twenty-one years after the war as we remember our heroes on the Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26, here's a look back at how the events of 1998 and 1999 transpired.
Vajpayee was born in 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He died on August 16, 2018, at AIIMS. "Tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is etched in the hearts of the countrymen, on his birth anniversary," Modi wrote on Twitter. He also posted a brief video on Vajpayee, recalling his contributions to the country.
The offering is made during 'Pitra-Paksh' (the ongoing fortight dedicated in the Hindu calendar to remembering the forefathers) and was organised by the 'Yug Dadhichi Deh-Daan Sansthan' at the Sarsaiya Ghat on the banks of the Ganga here.
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has renamed some of its schools after the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpaye from Nagar Palika Schools to 'Atal Adarsh Vidyalaya'.
On Monday, the hospital had said 93-year-old Vajpayee, who had not been keeping well for long, was admitted for routine check-ups and investigations and that his condition was stable.
Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati today charged the NDA government with discriminating against Dalit icons like Kanshi Ram while awarding Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malviya. She also attacked the Narendra Modi
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