Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit his home state of Gujarat on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanti. According to available information, he will be visiting Ahmedabad and Chhota Udepur during this trip. There is no official note on his visit, but the local sources said that in Ahmedabad, the PM Modi is expected to visit the Sabarmati Ashram to pay homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on his birth anniversary, where he will offer flowers at Gandhiji's statue. Fur...Read More

Porbandar/Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad: Mahatma Gandhi was today paid rich tribute in his home-state Gujarat on his birth anniversary and around 7000 students at his birthplace Porbandar stood in planned manner to create the shape of his face, a feat which in all likelihood would also get a place in Guinness world records. Around 7000 students assembled and made the shape of countenance of Bapu at Chowpati on the sea shore in presence of CM Vijay Rupani and the representatives of Guinness world reco...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Government’s tableaux, depicting the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad and Mahatma Gandhi’s association with it between 1917 and 1930, has been selected for National Republic Day Parade to be held in presence of heads of ten ASEAN counties in New Delhi on January 26, 2018.
 
The tableau shows the replica of the cottage ‘Hriday Kunj’ at the Sabarmati Ashram premises where the Mahatma and Kasturba Gandhi stayed during the crucial years of India’s freedom struggle...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is going to run a Gandhi Darshan Astha Special Tourist Train on June 17 on the occasion of centenary of the establishment of historic Sabarmati Ashram here, from Sabarmati railway station in Ahmedabad for a 10 days 'to and fro trip' to Bihar's Betitah and Motihari, formerly known as Champaran where Bapu had established yet another Ashram in 1917 to lead a successful Satyagrah for farmers. Addressing a press conf...Read More

New Delhi: For more than 10,000 domestic and foreign visitors who visit Mahatma Gandhiji’s Samadhi at Rajghat in the national capital every day, there is nothing much to engage the visitors about his life and and thoughts other than the black stone platform that marks the spot where Gandhiji was cremated. To address this deficiency and to enhance the engaging experience of the visitors, the Rajghat Samadhi Samiti, under the Ministry of Urban Development has undertaken several initiativ...Read More

New Delhi:In the backdrop of a string of gun violence in the US, three American mayors visited India to study the philosophy of non-violence championed by Mahatma Gandhi and learn as to how it could be implemented back in their country. "The three civic heads, two from the state of New York and one from Georgia, had arrived here on September 30 and during the five-day trip visited Jama Masjid, Akshardham, Sisganj Gurudwara and a Ramlila celebration in Delhi. "On October 1 and 2, they visit...Read More

Ahmedabad Seeking to end the confusion caused by the answer key of job exam held by a Rajkot local body, the Gujarat High Court today declared that it was poet Rabindranath Tagore who first used the title `Mahatma' for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Justice J B Pardiwala, while disposing of a petition, noted that all school textbooks give the credit for the Mahatma title of Gandhi to Tagore. Sandhya Maru, a candidate, had moved the HC challenging the answer key of the examination conduct...Read More