As the RSS celebrates its centenary year, the organisation’s Pune unit commemorates its worker Shrikant Lingayat, who was killed in an attack over four decades ago, with tributes and events.
Prasad, who was arrested under MISA during student protests and had spent several months in detention, has been a vehement critic of the Emergency led by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
We may not be the ‘Mother of democracy’ as our Prime Minister likes to tell the world, but in modern times, we have been a democratic republic, and this is something we should all be proud of. Democracy is something that we must cherish.
Former The Indian Express editor Kuldip Nayar fought fiercely for press freedom during Emergency, and was jailed under Maintenance of Internal Security Act
Iran mission uses donations to buy 40 tonnes of medicine, unable to send them home
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A 40-tonne shipment of medicines bought by the Iranian embassy in India is stranded in New Delhi due to a damaged aircraft. The embassy is seeking alternative ways to deliver the urgently needed medicines, as pharmaceutical companies in Iran are under attack.
