School holidays in August: Independence Day and more; Check full list of days when schools will remain closedIn August 2024, Indian students were occupied with academics after the start of the new school year. The month featured key holidays such a...
05 Aug, 2024, 09.10 PM IST
Republic Day 2023: Here's what every Indian should know about the TricolourThe flag was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947, just twenty days before India's ind...
24 Jan, 2023, 11.23 AM IST
Sasikumar starrer 'Kaari': OTT release date, platform, and other details"Kaari", a Tamil action-drama starring Sasikumar, will premiere on OTT on December 23.
19 Dec, 2022, 08.58 PM IST
Independence Day 2022 speech for children: Things to bear in mindKeep the Independence Day speech short and simple so that children won't get confused and leave out parts of it.
05 Aug, 2022, 09.56 AM IST
Pingali Venkayya, the man behind Tricolour, struggled to make ends meet and died penniless in 1963The hut where he lived in Chittinagar was built on land that was awarded to him.
03 Aug, 2022, 06.37 PM IST
Har ghar tiranga a celebration of India's growing strength and deep-rooted democracy: ShahCalling Pingali Venkayya, the creator of the national flag, a unifier of Indian aspirations, Shah honoured his family members. "This mahapu...
03 Aug, 2022, 01.17 AM IST
India@75: Significance of Tricolour in India's national flag explainedThe three colours - saffron, white and green - actually bear no communal meaning.
02 Aug, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
Pingali Venkayya, the designer of Indian national tricolour, died in penury as a forgotten manVenkayya went on to design many models of the national flag. In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi approved a design at the Indian National Congress meet...
01 Aug, 2022, 03.23 PM IST
Govt bats for cricket tie on Aug 22 as part of I-Day celebrations, writes to BCCIThe sources indicated that the Ministry of Culture, which sent the proposal, is in talks with BCCI officials to try and rope in top Indian ...
10 Jul, 2022, 04.09 PM IST
PM Modi urges youth to help build new IndiaThe PM unveiled a 30-feet statue of Alluri Sitarama Raju, a tribal freedom fighter from Andhra Pradesh, in Bhimavaram on his 125th birth an...
05 Jul, 2022, 12.15 AM IST
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav provides occasion to rejoice: AP CM"This Mahotsav has rightly provided an occasion to rejoice the Nation's glorious past, its cultural, social, economic and scientific achiev...
22 Dec, 2021, 08.32 PM IST
Three-week lockdown reasonable starting point to fight coronavirus in India: Former White House official"From an epidemiologic standpoint, I don't know if three weeks will be enough. It may require more time," said Venkayya, who was responsibl...
12 Apr, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
US begins first human trial of coronavirus vaccine: OfficialsThe vaccine is called mRNA-1273 and was developed by the NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc...
17 Mar, 2020, 09.36 AM IST
Everything you need to know about the Ashoka ChakraThe chakra, which features in the middle of the tricolour, has twenty-four spokes.
25 Jul, 2018, 11.37 AM IST
Opposing Niti Aayog is merely politics: Venkaiah NaiduNaidu said that the parties opposing NITI Aayog and land acquisition ordinance were doing so merely for the politics and not for the develo...
04 Jan, 2015, 04.49 PM IST
National flag designer Pingali Venkayya to be honouredUrban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will unveil the statue of late Venkayya tomorrow at the forelawns of AIR Vijayawada.
03 Jan, 2015, 11.00 PM IST
Digvijay Singh asks if BJP is doing a u-turn on its Kashmir stand"Is BJP going soft on Pakistan and terror and doing a u-turn on its stated stand on Kashmir?" Digvijay questioned in another tweet.
16 Jul, 2014, 02.54 PM IST