Kathmandu,15 November,2021.Embassy of India in Nepal in association with National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), UNDP and UNOPS organized an event in Kathmandu today to mark the successful completion of Government of India- funded reconstruction of 50,000 houses in Gorkha and Nuwakot districts of Nepal. The event was attended by Ms. Namgya C. Khampa, Deputy Chief of […]
Birendra P Mishra, 14 November, 2021. After independence India started reshaping its foreign policy. The independent India faced two realities-the growing influence of the western countries on Pakistan, on the one hand, and Tibet, which was brought under the direct control of the Chinese communist regime in 1949, on the other. The British Empire […]
The Padma Awards for 2021 was conferred by President of India on November 09 2021. The 119 Padma Awards conferred this year comprised of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. 29 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 16 Posthumous […]
The unveiling of the statue of the great Adi Shankaracharya, today on 5th of November, 2021 in Kedarnath, by Narendra Modi, is nothing short of a historic commemoration of an eventful event pertaining to India’s raison d’etre and its summum bonum. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: It was in 2017, I had paid my visit to Arrah […]
Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi. The electoral outcome of bye election in Mandi and other parts of India, barring West Bengal, when the election results were divided between BJP and Congress, sent me reeling into deeper reflection of the state of India today: The bi-polarity in the country is the matter of tremendous consternation as well as […]
Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi. Ramchandra Guha’s book The Architects of Modern India, prima facie appears flawed and incomplete, for the author, in his wisdom, or the utter lack of it, had given a complete miss to portraying the towering giant who, in all his political wisdom brought about by his skills in statecraft, contributing to making […]
New Delhi 30th October,2021: The revered mother of Author Journalist-Asst. Professor-SS Dogra (originally resident of Hamirpur-Himachal-Bureau Chief-Delhi for Himalini Magazine), Mrs. Sneh Lata ji passed away. She was unwell for a long time. 81-year-old mother was a religious believer and sweet-spoken woman. Her body was cremated at the Bindapur cremation ground according to Hindu rituals […]
Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi. In 2016, in course of my book launch of Yes, I am Bihari, I had whispered to Nitishjee, ‘ Sir, I have written a piece: A Bihari Prime Minister in 2019′. In fact, Nitish Kumar, so long as he had continued to oppose Nitish Kumar, he remained the darling of Sonia Gandhi […]
October 28, 2021. The Fourteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues (BCGSI) was held in Bengaluru on 28 October 2021. The Indian delegation was led by Shri Anurag Srivastava, Joint Secretary (North), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the Nepalese delegation was led by Mr. Tirtha Raj Wagle, Joint […]
When the Vision of Sampoorna kranti has slipped into irretrievable hibernation. The nation in all its majesticity has given a decent burial to India’s greatest figure in the post independence phase, one and only great Jayaprakash Narayan. Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi: Today the birth anniversary of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, unequivocally India’s greatest figure in the Post-independence […]