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Indian-Americans are 'taking over the country', United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the large number of 'incredible' professionals from the community holding key positions in his administration. IMAGE: US President Joe Biden. Photograph: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images In less than 50 days of his presidency, Biden has appointed at least 55 Indian-Americans to key leadership positions in his administration ranging from his speech writer to the National Aeronautic Space Administration, to almost every wing of the government. "Indian-of-descent Americans (sic) are taking over the country. You (Swati Mohan), my Vice President (Kamala Harris), my speech writer (Vinay Reddy)," Biden said in a virtual interaction with NASA scientists who were involved in the historic landing of Perseverance landing at Mars. Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan leads the guidance, navigation, and control operations of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Biden, who was sworn in ... » Learn More about Indian-Americans taking over US, says Biden

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Thursday allotted six constituencies to ally Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi for the April 6 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. IMAGE: DMK's MK Stalin and VCK's Thol Thirumavalavan sign the seat allocation agreement at the DMK headquarters in Chennai, March 4, 2021. Photograph: Courtesy, DMK on Twitter. An electoral pact was signed by DMK president M K Stalin and VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan at the Dravidian party headquarters 'Anna Arivalayam' in Chennai. "We have decided to fight from six segments." Though there was dissatisfaction on the number of seats offered in the party, it was decided to accept the deal to drive out 'Sanatana forces' from Tamil Nadu and to consolidate secular votes, Thirumavalavan told reporters. In the absence of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam matriarch J Jayalalithaa, the Bharatiya Janata Party was trying hard to weaken both the Dravidian parties and working ... » Learn More about DMK allots 6 seats to Dalit-centric VCK; no word on Congress yet

Next O ver six decades after his death, freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose remains one of the most intriguing figures of India's Independence struggle. In his recently released book His Majesty's Opponent , Harvard historian and Netaji's grand nephew Sugata Bose chronicles his fascinating life, revealing some little known facts about the great leader and revisiting some of the most landmark events of his life. Here's the chat transcript: V asks: Why did Netaji resign from the Congress presidentship even after he won against Jawaharlal Nehru. Wasn't it an emotion decision and a bad one at that? Sugata Bose says: Netaji resigned because Mahatma Gandhi would not suggest names for the Congress Working Committee as required by a resolution passed at the Tripuri Congress. As he put it, he resigned in a helpful spirit. It may have been partly an emotional decision, but it paved the way for him becoming Netaji by raising the Indian National ... » Learn More about ‘Netaji would have done his best to stop partition’

Image: A visitor looks at a picture of Subhas Chandra Bose at a museum in Kolkata. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters 'The non-violent movement would not have brought freedom to the country, that had to be an armed struggle.' C handra Kumar Bose is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grand nephew. After the Narendra Modi government declassified 100 files on Netaji, C K Bose joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, raising eyebrows why a descendant of Netaji, who was once a president of the Indian National Congress, would join a party that is opposed to the Congress. C K Bose (seen, below left, with BJP President Amit Shah) spoke to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/ Rediff.com about why he had joined the BJP and the controversies swirling around the declassification of the Netaji files. Why did you join the BJP? Subhas Chandra Bose was one of the first nationalists of India. I can say the BJP is a nationalist party. Joining a party obviously cannot be for one or two reasons, it has ... » Learn More about ‘Netaji was the reason why the British left India’

Next Arthur J Pais in New York In the last piece of this four-part interview to Arthur Pais, biographer Sugata Bose dispels rumours that Netaji is still alive. Part I: Grand nephew turns Netaji's biographer Part II: 'Netaji had a romantic, deeply emotional side to him' Part III: 'Netaji was able to both respect and transcend religious Y ou have had a few book readings. What have the audiences been like? So far I have spoken on the book in the United States. I had book readings in and in Cambridge, United Kingdom. I have book events in Japan in late June and Singapore on July 5 and finally in India between July 10 and 25. I think the audiences in the US felt they were learning something new about Subhas Chandra Bose as a human being, and not just an unreal figure whom we worship in South Asia, but someone who could be understood, somebody for whom you can have a great deal of sympathy, someone whose choices of ... » Learn More about ‘Controversies over Netaji’s death are fruitless’

Next While a lot has been said about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 1941 escape from British India and his perilous 90-day submarine voyage, his marriage continues to remain a secret. In the second part of his four-part interview to Arthur Pais, biographer Sugata Bose talks about Netaji's love story. Part I: Grand nephew turns Netaji's biographer I t was in 1993 that a historian handed over to the author some 165 letters written by Subhas Chandra Bose to his wife Emilie, whom he secretly married in Austria. This came as a huge and pleasant surprise to Sugata Bose, he admits. "The last major biography of Netaji was published in 1990. Brothers Against the Raj by Leonard Gordon is a very good book but unfortunately he did not have access to the correspondence between Netaji and Emilie," the author said. Tell us about the letters. We all knew about the relationship and the marriage when we were growing up but the fact that there were so ... » Learn More about ‘Netaji had a romantic, deeply emotional side to him’

Next Arthur J Pais In 1941, at the height of the Second World War, Subhas Chandra Bose went to Germany to seek Adolf Hitler's help in organising an Indian army to fight their common enemy, England . In the third part of his four-part interview to Arthur Pais, biographer Sugata Bose talks about Netaji's  time in Europe . Part I: Grand nephew turns Netaji's biographer Part II: 'Netaji had a romantic, deeply emotional side to him' L et us talk about Netaji in Europe , and his outlook towards people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds. In the 1940s, Subhas Chandra Bose gave up his earlier inhibitions about meat and other food restrictions and so on, but remained essentially the same man in terms of his values. His biggest achievement in public life was to bring about the unity all of the religious communities of India: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. Mahatma Gandhi also brought about ... » Learn More about ‘Netaji was able to both respect and transcend religious differences’

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New Delhi: The Hon’ble Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech of 15 August, 2017 had said: “If each one of us, irrespective of where he belongs to, strives with a new resolve, a new energy, a new strength, we can change the face of the country with our combined strength in the 75th year of our independence in 2022. It will be the New India – a secure, prosperous and strong nation. A New India where there is equal opportunity for all; where modern science and technology play an important role in bringing glory for the nation in the global arena.” Taking inspiration from the words of Hon’ble Prime Minister, Government of India has taken a decision to commemorate 75 years of India’s Independence which falls on 15th August 2022 in a befitting manner at national and international level in the form of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. A National Implementation Committee under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Home Minister had earlier been constituted for the ... » Learn More about High-level National Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi constituted to commemorate 75 years of India’s Independence

#Sedition Most number of sedition cases filed in Karnataka: Rajya Sabha told #Sedition SC refuses to interfere with sedition law #Sedition Pro-Pakistan slogans: 'Woman charged with sedition had links with Naxals in the past' #Sedition 19 persons arrested on charges of sedition at Azamgarh #Sedition Karnataka school headmistress, parent arrested for "abuse" of PM Modi in drama #Sedition Bidar school faces sedition charge for 'portraying PM Modi in poor light' For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now India - 11,173,761 | World - 116,207,995 View Sample For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS For Daily Alerts Just In 12 min ago India on track to achieving climate goals: PM Modi at CERAWeek 2021 27 min ago Actor Mithun Chakraborty may join BJP at PM Modi's Kolkata rally on Mar 7 29 min ago Nearly 14 lakh inoculated against COVID-19 on Thursday, ... » Learn More about ‘Misleading, incorrect’: Govt’s strong rebuttal on democracy report downgrading India to ‘partly free’