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Nitish pays tribute to Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Oct 11 (ANI): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday paid tribute to freedom fighter and social reformer Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary.
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PM Modi pays homage to Sree Narayana Guru on his birth anniversary
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 13 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid homage to social reformer Sree Narayana Guru on his birth anniversary.
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BJP plans to build grand memorial for Sant Ravidas
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 22 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to build a grand memorial to celebrate the legacy of Bhakti-era social reformer, poet and mystic Sant Ravidas.
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Baghel has less knowledge about Savarkar, distorting facts: Raman Singh
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 28 (ANI): Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday accused his successor Bhupesh Baghel of distorting history, saying the latter has "less knowledge" about social reformer Veer Savarkar.
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Bob Hawke, Australia's longest serving Labour PM dies at 89
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 16 (ANI): Bob Hawke, one of Australia's longest-serving prime ministers and a champion of the trade union movement, died on Thursday at the age of 89.
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You couldn't build Ram Temple in 5 yrs and now you want to make Vidyasagar
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Diamond Harbour (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): The war of words over the vandalisation of the bust of Bengal Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar escalated on Thursday with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a liar and rejecting his offer to build a grand statu
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - social reformer at centre of a modern-day pol
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A prominent figure in West Bengal, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has come under the spotlight after a statue of him was vandalised on Tuesday night during violence at BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata.
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Kolkata: Mamata holds 7-km march to protest roadshow violence
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 15 (ANI): A day after BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow took a violent turn, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a march here on Wednesday to protest against the clashes that took place, including vandalisation of social reformer Ishwar Chan
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CPM says vandalisation of Vidyasagar's bust 'despicable', demands EC probe
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 15 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Wednesday strongly condemned the vandalisation of the bust of 19th-century social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and demanded the Election Commission to launch an investigation into the violent clashes
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Ambedkar Jayanti: President, PM pay tribute to architect of Indian Constit
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to Dalit social reformer and father of the Indian Constitution Dr. BR Ambedkar on his 128th birth anniversary, also known as Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti.
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Hindu Mahasabha requests Veer Savarkar's picture on currency
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) has requested the Central government to replace the picture of Mahatma Gandhi from the Indian currency with the picture of social reformer Veer Savarkar.
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Mann Ki Baat: PM remembers Veer Savarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 27(ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered social reformer Veer Savarkar and said it was the latter who boldly expostulated that whatever happened in 1857 was not a revolt but was indeed the First War of Independence.
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