Mahatma Gandhi News

In preparing some of his fiscal proposals, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee found inspiration in Mahatma Gandhi and Kautilya, both of whom he quoted in his budget speech on Monday.

WASHINGTON: Besides Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama looks up to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela as his heroes for bringing about transformative change without violence by changing people's minds and hearts.

SPREADING VALUES: The Gandhiya rath yatra being taken out in Dindigul on Friday.

Spinning cloth from cotton like Mahatma Gandhi loved to do at his Gujarat home, may soon be an option in Trinidad and Tobago.

Among 79 places, avenues and roads in Casablanca, the capital of Morocco, which were renamed, one has been named after Mahatma Gandhi.

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"Books have been instrumental in triggering many historical events" - Photo: K. Ganesan COLLECTION OF SPEECHES: Shivraj V. Patil , former Supreme Court Judge, releasing a book in Madurai on Thursday.

AHMEDABAD: In his much-publicised speech at Oxford Union in 2001, Michael Jackson concluded with the thought of Mahatma Gandhi.

The vast majority of Filipinos are Christians. But most of them are, like most of the Christians India's revered 'Father of the Nation' Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had met, 'so unlike Christ.' Mahatma Gandhi read the Bible attentively.

DRIVERS on London Underground trains have started reading out quotes from thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Mahatma Gandhi in a bid to cheer up passengers, officials said on Thursday.

The vigilance department of RMC has also come under fire after Rajkot District Collector H S Patel, who is also the acting RMC commissioner, issued a showcause notice to the department for its failure to prevent construction despite a complaint in this regard.

LONDON: British Home Secretary Alan Johnson will join Hindu spiritual leader Swami Satyamitranand at the unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the city of Leicester in southeast England Friday, the local MP said Wednesday.

In 1906, when the first 29 Labour MPs were elected, the book that had most affected them, they said, was John Ruskin 's Unto This Last .

The small green book so preciously preserved by Venkata Sayi carries personalised autographs of 52 famous and 'not-so' famous people Photo: G. Krishnaswamy PRICELESS: I.Venkata Sayi shows the autograph of Mahatma Gandhi taken in 1942.

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP A challenge was presented to Absegami High School's graduating seniors Tuesday, June 16 by class valedictorian Sharif Farghaly a challenge to share their humanity with the world.

Police in Lucknow on Wednesday resorted to baton charge and detained over 100 Congress party workers who were protesting against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's alleged derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi.

KOCHI: Mahatma Gandhi always regretted that he had not improved his handwriting when he was young.

The BJP criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati over her reported comments on Mahatma Gandhi, saying the BSP chief should study Gandhiji's life and work before making such "rash" statements.

While addressing party functionaries here on Saturday, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister called Mahatma Gandhi natakbaaj who, she claimed, staged a 'drama' by visiting Dalit homes and eating meals with them while doing little to help their cause.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Maywati has come under severe criticism from opposition leaders for having made derogatory remarks about Mahatma Gandhi.