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Maharashtra: CM Thackeray writes to PM Modi for grant of elite status to M
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 24 (ANI): State Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he should personally intervene and instruct the concerned authorities to give Marathi language elite status.
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Amitabh Bachchan meets Polish Nobel Prize winner in Wroclaw
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Wroclaw (Poland), Dec 19 (ANI): Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday met this year's Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk in Wroclaw.
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Dedication, commitment of Israeli people always helped them to counter att
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 15 (ANI): The dedication and commitment of Israeli people for their country have always helped them to counter the attacks of Arab countries. Even in the war, they repaired and refurbished the tanks rapidly to fight against the superior armour of the enemy, s
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Due lessons not learned from Kargil War, nation vulnerable: General VP Mal
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Dec 13 (ANI): Lamenting the lackadaisical attitude of political class towards defence needs of the country, former Army Chief General VP Malik on Friday said that due lessons had not been learned from the Kargil War leaving the nation vulnerable on the security front.
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'The Kargil Victory: Battles from Peak to Peak' throws light on untold inc
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Dec 13 (ANI): A panel discussion was held on 'The Kargil Victory: Battles From Peak to Peak', a book written by Colonel SC Tyagi here at third Military Literature Festival in local Lake Club on Friday.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to inaugurate 3rd Military Literature Festi
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov 23 (ANI): Stage is all set for the three-day long Military Literature Festival (MLF) with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurating the gala event on December 13 at the Lake Club of the City Beautiful.
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Railway station shops allowed to sell national, cultural literature only:
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov 21 (ANI): Chairman of the Railway Board's Passenger Service Committee (PSC), Ramesh Chandra Ratn conducted a surprise check at the Bhopal Railway Station on Wednesday and said that the kiosks are only allowed to sell national, cultural literature in the s
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Bhopal: Railway Board finds Khushwant Singh's novel 'obscene', asks vendor
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov 21 (ANI): The Railway Board's Passenger Service Committee (PSC) on Wednesday allegedly directed a vendor at Bhopal Railway Station to stop selling noted writer Khushwant Singh's novel "Women, Sex, Love and Lust", saying such "obscene" literature may spoil
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke for 2018
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Oct 10 (ANI): The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday.
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India needs poets, writers as much as we need doctors, engineers: Vice Pre
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 6 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday urged schools and universities to encourage literature and arts as India needs "poets, writers, artists and singers as much as we need doctors, engineers and scientists."
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Literary event held to mark European Day of Languages
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi[India], Sep 27 (ANI) Long Night of LiteratureS, a literary event involving writers from European countries was held here on Friday to mark the European Day of Languages.
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Need to create awareness about monuments among students: Vice President Na
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 26 (ANI): Asserting on the need to educate children about the various monuments and their significance, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said there is a need to bring together various academic disciplines "to establish a correlation of the literat
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