R. Madhavan was born in Jamshedpur. So was Priyanka Chopra. Meiyang Chang was born in Dhanbad. Sudha Murthy joined TELCO in the late 1970s, working in Jamshedpur, then part of Bihar.
Before the 1952 Freight Equalisation Policy, India had only a handful of industrial towns - Kanpur, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Madras and Calcutta... Bihar had many - Jamalpur (Munger), Barauni, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Sindri, Ranchi... Northern Bihar had sugar mills producing 25% of India's output. People from every part of India sought employment here.
During my MBA days, a good number of my batchmates had connections to Bihar....regardless of their own ethnic backgrounds like Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Marathi, Tamil or Malayalam. They said that an immediate family member from an earlier generation had been employed in a factory in Bihar.
We welcomed people of all ethnicities... free from prejudice based on their colour or language. You'd be hard pressed to find instances of us demeaning or beating anyone due to their ethnic background.
There's a history behind this. We created this nation. We gave you this civilisation, that you call great. We gave you the religion that you so proud of.. We gave Bharat its broadest territorial extent. There's a reason why we say "हम' and not "मैं".
Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister of Israel, arrives for reserve duty.
He has joined Israel’s soldiers on the frontlines to defend Israel. May he and all the soldiers stay safe.
#WATCH | On the India-Canada row, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "It's a very disappointing development. I don't quite understand why the apparent need on Canada's part to cater to a particular political lobby in that country has resulted in their publicly putting their entire relationship with India in peril. But we now must take steps to ensure that it doesn't deteriorate any further. They are an important trading partner... Now there are escalating threats against the safety and security of Indians- Hindu Indians. And I think that once Canada has unleashed this, they should be very conscious of the dangers they're provoking, including, for importing a kind of extremism that doesn't exist in India anymore in Punjab, into their country instead, which is very, very unfortunate. So I would urge the Canadians to also take a deep breath and rethink what they're doing..."
Saluting IITB’s unsung heroes- hostel mess workers!
Working round the clock to ensure students are well-fed & energised.
From serving chai & maggi during mid & end-sems to fulfilling early morning Anda Bhurji requests, our hostel mess heroes do it all.
Pic: IITB Punctuations
@WeekendInvestng Could be a genuine mistake as well, just like you tweet the same thing again here to fix the spelling mistakes.
Still it's immediately not immidiately...
@ravindrasinha5@News18India@ArvindKejriwal What led to Dy CM Manish Sisodia's arrest - CBI forensic team was able to retrieve files pertaining to 12% liquor profit margin; deliberately deleted from his computer & one of his secretaries (DANICS officer) confirmed his involvement & gave the statement in front of Magistrate.