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Agnipath Scheme [1] (also spelled Agneepath Scheme) (Hindi: Agnīpath Yojanā, transl. Agnipath [Fireway] Scheme) is a tour of duty style scheme approved by the Government of India on 14 June 2022 and implemented in the country a few months later in September 2022, for recruitment of soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers into the three services of the armed forces. [2]
Agnivesh was born in a Brahmin Hindu family [10] as Vepa Shyam Rao on 21 September 1939, in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. [2] His father died when he was only four years old. He was then brought up by his maternal grandfather, who was the Diwan of the princely state Sakti, in present-day Chhattisgarh.
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Ghar Wapsi (Hindi, meaning "Returning Home") is the programme of religious conversion to Hinduism (and, to a lesser extent, Sikhism) from Islam, Christianity, and other religions in India conducted by Indian Hindu nationalist organisations such as Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and also overseas such as in Indonesia. [1]
Its use has been controversial in the past over its potential effects on the environment. A lawsuit filed in 2022 by the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, an organisation made up ...
Controversy hovered around him again when on 17 August 2009 another book authored by him, entitled Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence, was released. In this he praised Mohammad Ali Jinnah and claimed that the centralised policy of Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for Partition. [ 100 ]
The hospice business has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade, from a collection of small religious-affiliated entities into a booming mega industry dominated by companies seeking to reap big profits from the business of dying.
General Manoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM AVSM SM VSM ADC (born 22 April 1960) is a retired Indian Army General who served as the 28th Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), [4] as well as the temporary Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee from 15 December 2021 until his superannuation on 30 April 2022.