MAHATMA GANDHI

A president's State of the Union address has a predictable formula.

India’s main opposition Congress party has ended a five-month cross-country “unity march” in disputed Kashmir with hundreds of members of various opposition groups joining in a public rally in freezing temperatures.

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.

Gina Lollobrigida says she's seeking office because she is 'tired of hearing politicians arguing with each other without ever getting to the point.'

NEW DELHI (AP) — “At the stroke of the midnight hour,” India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” India was a free, independent country. Seventy-five years on, India is a vastly changed country.

A more muscular, chauvinistic India is casting aside the "father of the nation" for other heroes.

Imagine Americans putting up statues of the man who shot Lincoln. The equivalent is happening in India today.

Jacob Chansley became one of the most recognisable figures from the 6 January siege on the Capitol.

NEW DELHI — Kusum Seth was all of 10 when she heard from her father that India had got its independence. “My father told me about Nehru’s speech that he heard on the radio. “Spinning the wheel was a step towards self-reliant India,” Seth said. Even at 5, I used to wear a sari [Indian traditional dress].”While Seth’s memories of Independence Day are happy, Sumitra Kapoor, 93, remembers independence differently. “India did get independence, but at that midnight hour, the Partition divided the undivided — the people.”When independence was granted to the former imperial domain of British India, it was partitioned into two countries — India and Pakistan.

South Africa may have christened itself the “Rainbow Nation,” but high walls of income and opportunity still divide its communities.

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)DENVER – Sheneen McClain is not always hopeful but thinks it's possible the death of her son Elijah McClain could create change. Sheneen McClain said she knew her son was innocent but is glad the world knows it, too. AdShe wants the officers who stopped her son to be charged, convicted and spend the rest of their lives behind bars. One of them, Jason Rosenblatt, was fired last year, but not for stopping Elijah McClain. Ad“If anyone can change the world, it's Elijah, because he has the empathy,” she said.

The military detained Suu Kyi and other senior politicians on Monday and said it would rule under a one-year state of emergency. Her homeland, meanwhile, was under the control of a military leader, Ne Win, a former comrade of her father who had seized power in 1962. Protests against the military government had been growing before Suu Kyi returned to Myanmar in 1988 to nurse her dying mother. Placed under house arrest in 1989, Suu Kyi was detained for 15 of the next 22 years, mostly at her dilapidated lakeside home in Yangon. Asked once in a BBC interview about her once-saintly reputation, Suu Kyi replied: “I am just a politician.

Farmers listen to their leaders during a day-long hunger strike as they continue to protest against three farm laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Indian farmers and their leaders spearheading more than two months of protests against new agriculture laws began a daylong hunger strike Saturday, directing their fury toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. Farmer leaders said the hunger strike, which coincides with the death anniversary of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, would reaffirm the peaceful nature of the protests. Farmer leaders said the hunger strike was timed to coincide with the death anniversary of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who was famed for his nonviolent resistance to colonial rule. We have decided that we won’t go back," said Sukhdev Singh, another farmer leader who was taking part in Saturday's hunger strike.

Khadi came to Oaxaca when Mark Brown, the man behind Khadi Oaxaca , visited India in the 1980s to stay in Gujarat, on the western coast. Khadi Oaxaca has a wide range of products from fabric, apparel to household products. Government estimates say that there are close to 500,000 Khadi weavers in India. Between the financial years 2015-16 and 2018-19, the Indian Railways procured Khadi products worth Rs 258.61 crore ($34 million). “As far as protecting the interest of Khadi artisans is concerned, the Khadi commission has come down heavily on prominent e-commerce sites selling fake Khadi products and misusing the brand name.

(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)MELBOURNE – The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. The figures take the state toll to 805 and the national death count to 893. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said a recent outbreak linked to southeast Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre showed why it was unsafe to ease restrictions. Trump has blamed China, where the coronavirus outbreak began in December, of mishandling the outbreak and allowing it to spread. Nepal has so far 84,570 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 528 deaths.

FILE - In this Friday, March 5, 1999, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks with reporters in Washington. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, File)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. From his childhood, when he preached to chickens in the dirt-poor South, to his decades as a moral force in Congress, religious faith was a constant in the life of Rep. John Lewis. Lewis spent boyhood days as a make-believe minister, preaching to a congregation of clucking birds at his rural home in Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr., he went on to become a civil rights activist in his own right while attending a Baptist college in Tennessee. In my estimation, the civil rights movement was a religious phenomenon.

President Donald Trumps declaration that he was taking the antimalarial drug of dubious effectiveness to help fend off the coronavirus will be welcomed in India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)NEW DELHI President Donald Trumps declaration that he was taking a malaria drug of dubious effectiveness to help fend off the coronavirus will likely be welcomed in India. Suhhil Gupta, a pharmacist in New Delhi, said Tuesday that Trump's announcement shouldn't carry any weight in India. Indias health ministry quickly approved it as a prophylactic for health care workers and others at high risk of infection, and as a treatment for critically ill patients. The Mumbai proposal was ultimately shelved amid questions of the ethics of administering the malaria drug without first subjecting it to clinical trials.