The UK government is all set to issue a commemorative coin in the honour of Mahatma Gandhi to mark his 150th birthday anniversary, said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid.
Mahatma Gandhi's portrait was defaced at Bapu Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district on Gandhi Jayanti by unidentified persons who wrote 'deshdrohi' (traitor) over it, the police said on Thursday.
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission on Thursday claimed that Khadi India's flagship store at Connaught Place here made a record sale of over Rs 1.27 crore on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.
A video of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Firoz Khan crying before Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary has gone viral on social media. In the video, Khan can be seen cleaning up a statue of the Bapu and weeping. The incident happened in Sambhal city of Uttar Pradesh.
As the country celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, PM Modi said that rural India has declared itself open defecation free. He also urged people to say NO to single use plastic.
As the world grapples with violence in forms of environmental destruction to devastation caused by armed conflict, Mahatma Gandhi's vision of peace and sustainable development continues to resonate across the world, UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as leaders of the world body recalled the "transformational change" brought by a "frail" man that inspired millions around the world.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the icon of peace, has been honoured by over 100 countries by issuing postage stamps.
Over 28 lakh people participated in the Fit India Plog Run organised by the Sports Ministry in a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary.
The United States, a country Mahatma Gandhi never visited, has the unique distinction of having the highest number of his statues in a foreign land.
The East Central Railway on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary by converting an express train to a veritable exhibition on the transformation of "Mohan to Mahatma".
With few takers for Gandhian values in the present times, the Department of Gandhian Thought at Tilka Majhi University in Bhagalpur, which once attracted students in large numbers, is now struggling for its existence.
Like the big four in the Indian Independence story - Mahatma Gandhi himself, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Mohd Ali Jinnah, he too was an Anglophile having studied in England. But from a follower of Gandhi, he turned into a rebel, one who built an Army to foil the British. Meeting Hitler and Tojo in the process.
To Sonu Baijal's great regret, the letter itself got lost during the shop's renovation. But the family's Gandhi connect remains strong, he said with pride.
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Sachin Tendulkar urged the younger generation to adopt Gandhi's teachings in their daily lives.
In what appeared to be a swipe at the present BJP leadership, Sonia Gandhi told party workers and leaders at Rajghat that the Mahatma's soul would be pained by what has been happening in India in the last few years.
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