UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres urged people to shun violence by following #MahatmaGandhi 's principles of #Ahimsa (non-violence) on the occasion of his 153rd birth anniversary. trib.al/su5xvDu
Congress President #SoniaGandhi paying tribute to #MahatmaGandhi on the occasion of his 153rd birthday anniversary, at #RajGhat in New Delhi.
#GandhiJayanti | #MahatmaGandhi’s visions of the trusteeship model, ahimsa, and self-denial could be the corrective course that our economies urgently need. | Appu Esthose Suresh writes. trib.al/s83vfvc
#GandhiJayanti | Every coin and stamp issued in #India and globally on #MahatmaGandhi portrays a significant historical journey, starting from the first stamp on Gandhi on India’s first Independence Day in 1948. | @courtkacheri4 writes. trib.al/OM2HJp2
#GandhiJayanti | Values that #MahatmaGandhi learnt in his childhood helped him during his adulthood. A few incidents from his life show how his strong principles and ideas actually had their roots from early on. | Radhika D. Shyam writes. trib.al/sU0HuSQ
#GandhiJayanti | Why do we continue to read #MahatmaGandhi and admire him? Not because he is the Father of the Nation, but because he does not fit into any hard and fast category and continues to disturb us. | @RJahanbegloo writes. trib.al/ZtqN4L0
#GandhiJayanti | In this blighted time of hate, it is worth asking: what would #MahatmaGandhi, the brilliant organiser of salt marches and instant hartals, have done? Would he have written a tweet, and created a meme? | @NeetiNair writes. trib.al/GCsMRKm
#GandhiJayanti | 'Scorching Love' is a collection and translation of #MahatmaGandhi’s letters to his youngest son, Devadas, with whom he had the most straightforwardly affectionate relationship of all his children. | Ananya Vajpeyi writes. trib.al/ZjxMnSo
#GandhiJayanti | #MahatmaGandhi remains the most widely known political leader of modern #India. His appeal to conscientious politics and nobility of spirit continues to be a strong ethical response to political issues. | @RJahanbegloo writes. trib.al/uSOuNDu
#GandhiJayanti | If #MahatmaGandhi’s writings matter to us today, the writer in him should matter more, especially for humanist scholars. He was one of the most prolific writers of all time. But what did writing mean to him? | N.S. Gundur writes. trib.al/mC2lZtZ
#GandhiJayanti | #MahatmaGandhi’s silence on the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suggests how he transformed a tragedy into spiritual action. | Rajeev Kadambi writes. trib.al/U5V6Hq0
#GandhiJayanti | #Replug | #MahatmaGandhi was a thinker with a profoundly ecological sensibility, though his writings and speeches do not mention the subject as it is spoken about today. | Vinay Lal writes. trib.al/n2ICT15
#GandhiJayanti | High Commissioner of India to the #UK, Vikram Doraiswami addressed a ceremony organised on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, at Tavistock Square in #London on Sunday.
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#5GLaunch | Prime Minister #NarendraModi is set to launch the #5G telephonic services, ushering in an era of ultra high-speed internet on mobile phones.
#5GIndia | #5G will be launched by #PMModi in select cities on October 1 and it will progressively cover the entire country over the next couple of years, according to an official release.
Just in | Output growth in #India’s eight core infrastructure sectors slowed to 3.3% in August, the slowest pace since November 2021, dipping from 4.5% in July. | @tragicosmicomic reports
Crude oil and natural gas continued to report contractions while electricity and steel production clocked sharply lower expansions than the previous month.
Overall output levels in the eight sectors that make up 40% of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), were 1.5% lower than July 2022 levels, marking the third successive month of such sequential contraction.
#Congress president polls | #MallikarjunKharge has filed his nomination in the presence of Ashok Gehlot, Anand Sharma, Prithviraj Chavan among others. | @fewcan reports
Mr. Sharma and Mr. Chavan are members of the ginger group or G-23 that has written to Sonia Gandhi for internal reforms. Mr. Tharoor was also signatory to the 2020 letter. | @fewcan reports
Here is a round-up of #PrideMonth with The Hindu.
We take you through all the inspiring stories we've come across this month and how different cities in India and the world celebrated #PrideMonth2022.
#PrideMonth | What does meaningful inclusion look like? How can corporations prove their allegiances to the great, grand cause of #queer liberation? A nondescript bakery in a sleepy #Juhu lane in #Mumbai shows us. trib.al/4jfgL3I
Maharashtra crisis live updates | Dissident #ShivSena leader #EknathShinde on Wednesday stepped out of Radisson Blu hotel here, where he and other rebel Maharashtra MLAs are camping since June 22, and visited Kamakhya temple to seek blessings. trib.al/ogDtJyx
#ShivSena approached Supreme Court against Governor's direction asking the State government to prove majority on June 30. The matter will be heard at 5 p.m. | @alokdesh reports
#DataPoint | Six years since the implementation of the #IBC, the resolution process continues to be mired in problems of systemic delays and steeper haircuts. (1/5)
#DataPoint | This chart shows the share of companies that were liquidated, approved, settled and withdrawn among the cases for which the resolution process was completed. (2/5)
#DataPoint | This chart shows the number of days taken to complete the resolution process. (3/5)