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Congress reminds BJP it was Patel who banned RSS; called it 'clear threat'

The Congress has said the BJP wants to use Sardar Patel to demean Jawaharlal Nehru. What it was not telling people is that it was Sardar Patel who had banned the RSS

PM Modi launches veiled attack on Jawaharlal Nehru over Kashmir issue

Sardar Patel resolved issues of merger of other princely states, but one person could not resolve the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, in a veiled attack on Pandit Nehru. Addressing a rally here ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections due this year-end, Modi also said has was able to resolve the long-pending Kashmir issue as he is walking in the footsteps of Sardar Patel. Sardar saheb persuaded all the princely states to merge with India. But another person handled this one issue of Kashmir, Modi said, without naming India's first prime minister. As I am following the footsteps of Sardar saheb, I have values of the land of Sardar and that was the reason I resolved the problem of Kashmir and paid true tributes to Sardar Patel, Modi said.

Operation Polo: The five-day-long police action that integrated Hyderabad

Hyderabad was under the rule of the Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan. The Nizam delayed acceding to India, and as violence spread across the state, the Indian Army marched in

Hyderabad to commemorate 75 years of liberation with year-long celebrations

The celebrations will start on September 17, 2022, and end on September 17, 2023

The provincialisation of All India Services

All India Services were to be all India in character for a purpose. Any dilution of this central tenet should worry policymakers

India grateful to Sardar Patel for his efforts to unite nation: PM Modi

PM Modi paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his death anniversary, saying India will be grateful to the latter's administrative skills and efforts to unite the nation.

PM Narendra Modi pays tribute to Sardar Patel on death anniversary

PM Modi paid tribute to India's first home minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, on his 71st death anniversary on Wednesday.

India fully capable of meeting any internal or external challenge: PM Modi

"Sardar Patel always wanted India to be capable, inclusive, sensitive, alert, humble and developed. He always prioritised national interest," Modi said.

Narendra Modi Stadium: Is this megalomania or insecurity?

A concern with institutionalising Modi's legacy is also reflected in his photograph being sent into outer space along with the Bhagawad Gita on India's first indigenously built Satish Dhawan satellite

Only Motera stadium renamed, complex still has Sardar Patel's name: Govt

The clarification comes amid a controversy over a cricket stadium in Gujarat being renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Dinyar Patel's book, Naoroji, fills a gap in major historical scholarship

Historical scholarship has been so preoccupied with the later nationalists - Gandhi, Patel, Nehru, Bose et al - that it has neglected, or been indifferent to, the individual who started it all.

Nehru and Sardar

A new book more or less confirms something about which there has been a lot of speculation: Nehru did not intend to make Sardar Patel a member of his first Cabinet

PM Modi offers floral tributes to Sardar Patel on his birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country's first home minister, at the Statue of Unity here on the occasion of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on Thursday. October 31, Patel's birth anniversary, is celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) since 2014. As the prime minister offered floral tributes, flower petals were showered on the world's tallest statue by an Indian Air Force helicopter. The 182-metre-tall statue of Sardar Patel was inaugurated by Modi on October 31 last year. The PM also administered 'national unity pledge' to the gathering on this occasion. The prime minister watched 'Ekta parade' in which personnel of the Gujarat Police, Jammu & Kashmir Police, Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force took part. Mock drill demonstrations were conducted by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), National Disaster Response Force and National Security Guard. CISF personnel gave a demonstration

Would you plan a vacation to see the Statue Of Unity? 60% say 'No': BS Poll

Business Standard conducted a poll asking if they would plan a vacation to visit the world's largest statue. Here are the results

Sardar Patel should have been first recipient of Bharat Ratna: Amit Shah

The birth anniversary of Sardar Patel is being celebrated across the country as 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas'

Sardar Patel got Bharat Ratna only when a non-Gandhi was PM, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Country's 1st home minister was given Bharat Ratna in 1991 by the Narasimha Rao govt, 41 years after his death