The occasion of Holi is a colourful one. It signifies the end of evil, and the triumph of truth. It also signifies love between Radha and Krishna – the couple with eternal love.
Here are some messages that you can send to your loved ones this Holi.
May this Holi be the harbringer of love, colours and sweetness in your life.
Khaa key gujiya, pee key bhaang, laaga k thora thora sa rang, bajaa ke dholak aur mridang, khele holi hum tere sang. Holi Mubarak
Lagake thoda gulaal ka rang, Khushiya manao sab sang-sang, Gaana bajana dhol mridang, Holi manao khoob malang. Happy Holi.
If wishes come in rainbow colours then I would send the brightest one to say Happy Holi.
Bright colours, water balloons, tasty gujiyas and melodious songs are the ingredients of perfect Holi. Wish you a very happy and wonderful Holi.
May God gift you all the colours of life, colours of joy, colours of happiness, colours of friendship, colours of love and all other colours you want to paint in your life. Happy Holi!
Just like a red rose that fills the world with beauty & fragrance… You have made my life so beautiful by being in it. On Holi, the festival of colours & joy I want to say thank you for all the love & smiles you’ve brought to my life. Happy Holi.
May god gift you all the colours of life, colours of joy, colours of happiness, colours of friendship, colours of love n all other colours you want to paint in your life. Happy Holi.
When love is in the air, you know it is time to celebrate Holi!Happy Holi!
Holi is not only about colours and sweets. It reminds of the divine and eternal love of Krishna and Radha. May this Holi be filled with love and blessings from the divine. Happy Holi
May the colours of love, and the fragrance of gulaal fill you life with joy. Happy Holi.
Even though we can’t meet this Holi, here is a wish full of colours to fill you life with joy. Happy Holi.
Holi mein rang barsao, kuch phoolon ka, kuch pyaar ka. Sangeet mein sab doob jaao, yehi maza hai tyohaar ka. Happy Holi
Rango aur paar se bharpoor rahe aapki zindagi. Holi ki shubhkamnayein.
Dhol, thakake, rang aur pyaar. Mubarak ho aapko Holi ka tyohaar.
We wish all our readers of Real News of India a very HAPPY HOLI!!!!!
Play clean Holi
United Nations: The remarks by one of the Delhi gang-rape convict blaming the victim for the assault are “unspeakable”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson has said, stressing the need for men to get involved in halting violence against women.
Ban’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refused to further comment on the remarks made by Mukesh Singh, the driver of the bus in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally gang-raped by six men on December 16, 2012.
“I’m not going to comment on the unspeakable comments that were made by the person accused of raping this girl, but I think the Secretary-General has spoken very clearly on the need to halt violence against women and on the need for men to get involved in halting violence against women and decrying it loud and clear every time it occurs,” Dujarric told reporters.
In an interview for a BBC documentary on the rape of the girl, Singh appeared unrepentant for the abhorrent crime.
Amid wide public outrage over Singh’s controversial remarks, the Indian government has banned the documentary on the 2012 gang rape ‘India’s Daughter’.
The government has secured a court injunction to stop the airing of the documentary across all media platforms in India.
When asked to comment on the Indian government’s decision to not air the documentary and freedom of the press, Dujarric refused to make any comments.
“I’m not going to get into it. Our position on freedom of the press is clear. Some countries have different rules regarding the viewing of evidence during judicial proceedings. I’m not aware of the full details of it, so I’ll leave it at that,” he said yesterday.
PTI
New Delhi: A controversial BBC documentary featuring one of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape convicts has been uploaded on video sharing website YouTube by an individual.
However, the BBC site says “BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only”.
The Home Ministry on Wednesday said orders were obtained from court to restrain the broadcast of the documentary.
The documentary “India’s daughter” by British film-maker Leslee Udwin has kicked up a storm over the interview of one of the six men who raped the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist on December 16, 2012 on board a moving bus in Delhi. She later died in a Singapore hospital where she had been airlifted for specialised treatment.
IANS
New Delhi: A controversial BBC documentary featuring one of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape convicts has been uploaded on video sharing website YouTube by an individual.
However, the BBC site says “BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only”.
The Home Ministry on Wednesday said orders were obtained from court to restrain the broadcast of the documentary.
The documentary “India’s daughter” by British film-maker Leslee Udwin has kicked up a storm over the interview of one of the six men who raped the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist on December 16, 2012 on board a moving bus in Delhi. She later died in a Singapore hospital where she had been airlifted for specialised treatment.
IANS
Mumbai: The family of the slain communist leader and social activist Govind Pansare on Tuesday sought to intervene in a public interest litigation filed in the Bombay High Court which has sought a CBI probe into his murder.
Pansare was shot dead near his house in Kolhapur on February 16 by unidentified men.
Social activist Ketan Tirodkar has filed the PIL, seeking transfer of the probe to CBI.
Pansare’s daughter Smita and daughter-in-law Megha Pansare filed an application seeking permission to intervene in the PIL.
Their lawyer, Sandesh Shukla, mentioned the application before the division bench headed by Justice P V Hardas, which posted it for hearing along with the PIL tomorrow.
“Instead of CBI inquiry, the family wants a special investigation team to be formed and the court to monitor the probe. Earlier, the High Court had transferred the probe into the murder of activist Narendra Dabholkar to CBI but to date there has been no break-through. Same goes for the probe into murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty,” Shukla said.
PTI
Mumbai: The bill banning the cow slaughter in Maharashtra, which got President Pranab Mukherjee’s nod, has divided opposition Congress and NCP, with the latter saying that it would cause hardship to farmers.
“Congress welcomes the President’s assent. This bill has been pending for long with the President….But care should be taken that this is not used as a political tool to gather support. The implementation of this law needs to be totally transparent,” Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil told PTI.
But NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said ruling BJP was “misguiding” the people and causing an economic “loss” to the state to please a section of the society.
“A blanket ban will cause the biggest problems for farmers. A farmer has to spend at least Rs 5,000 a month to take care of such animals. It is now the responsibility of the government to come out with a mechanism to take in all unfit animals and take care of them as long as they live,” Malik said.
“Poor farmers had an alternative before but now that is gone. Exports too will be hit as buffalo meat was exported and bull meat was sold in Maharashtra. This will cause an economic loss to the state,” he said.
There is already a blanket ban in the state on slaughter of cows; the amended act bans slaughter of bulls and and calves too.
The offence will be non-bailable and will attract a punishment of upto five years in prison, against the six months till now. The fine, too, has been hiked to Rs 10,000 from the current Rs 1,000.
Thane: Nearly 70 per cent of migrant children in Maharashtra’s Thane and Palghar districts are deprived of education, according to a survey.
Nearly 87 per cent children, mostly of the migrant brick kiln workers, were deprived of education in 2010, 77 per cent in 2011, 60 per cent in 2012-13 and 70 per cent in 2013-14, as per the survey conducted by two Palghar-based NGOs- Shramajivi Sanghatana and Vidhayak Sansad.
Despite the government’s move to provide education to all under the RTE, a considerable number of children were kept away from education and even deprived of the health care facilities, a delegation of the NGOs pointed out while submitting a memorandum in this regard to Governor C Vidyasagar Rao during his visit here yesterday.
Vidhyak Sansad is an NGO conducting survey and analysis of various government and private scheme.
The Shrmjivi Sanghatana works for the uplift of tribals in Maharashtra.
PTI
Kolkata: Criticising Narendra Modi for putting the blame for West Bengal’s “backward slide” in last 34 years on CPI-M, Left Front’s chairman Biman Bose on Wednesday said the Prime Minister was misinformed and should check the facts before speaking.
Bose also alleged that Modi’s outburst against Left rule was actually a prelude to a “covert understanding” between the TMC and the BJP in Bengal.
“I think he is misinformed. He should check his facts and figures before making a statement. He should remember that he is the Prime Minister of the country,” he told reporters here.
Modi had yesterday said that during the 34 years of Left rule in West Bengal, industry and agriculture had suffered in the state.
“The PM should know the situation when we came to power. The development of the state after we formed the government could be seen through open eyes,” Bose asserted.
PTI
New Delhi: US Ambassador to India Richard Verma on Wednesday described Indian Muslims as “vital players” in advancing India and America’s shared value and vision.
Verma was addressing a town hall at the India Islamic Cultural Center (IICC), attended by country’s leading Muslim entrepreneurs, scholars, and clerics.
Noting that “the future of the US-India relationship depends on human capital,” he said, “Your perspectives and contributions are the key asset for its growth”, according to a release by the US embassy here.
The hour-long discussion with over 50 people representing the geographic, professional, and ideological diversity of India’s vibrant Muslim communities highlighted the people-to- people role in strengthening US-India relations, it said.
Verma outlined four broad areas of ongoing US-India cooperation: clean energy and climate change; development, health, and science; economic and commercial; and defence and security.
PTI
New Delhi: Amidst uproar over an interview of a December 16 gang-rape convict, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India on Tuesday evening issued a notice to all television channels asking them not to broadcast the Nirbhaya documentary, official sources said.
The announcement came hours after the Delhi Police stated that it will move court for a restraining order against an interview of Mukesh Singh, a prime accused in the December 16, 2012 ‘Nirbhaya’ rape case.
interview from Tihar jail for a BBC documentary to be aired on March 8, Mukesh Singh said: “A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy.”
While speaking to BBC Four from his cell, Mukesh Singh, one of the five accused convicted of raping and murdering Nirbhaya, said that a girl is ‘far more responsible for rape’ than a boy.
The interview was scheduled to be aired on March 8 by BBC Four on its Storyville programme “India`s Daughter” on Sunday to coincide with the International Women`s Day.
Singh even said housework and housekeeping was the domain of girls and they had no rights to roam or visit discos and bars at night.
“They are doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes,” he said, and added that only ’20 percent’ of the girls were good.
Singh added that executing him and the other convicts in the case will further endanger rape victims as now, when girls are raped, they will not leave the victim but will kill her.
He showed no remorse for the attack, which he referred to as an ‘accident’.
In December 2012, The physiotherapy student was raped and assaulted with an iron rod after she was tricked into boarding an unregistered private bus to go home after watching a movie with a male friend.
Her male companion was badly beaten up and could not come to her rescue while the assault was being carried out in the bus. The two were later dumped naked and bleeding on the roadside.
The woman died 13 days after the attack from the injuries inflicted upon her after being airlifted to a Singapore hospital for treatment.
The attack sparked widespread protests and a campaign by civil society groups for tougher laws to protect women against sexual violence.
One of the attackers was found dead in jail in March 2013. A juvenile member of the gang was sentenced to three years in a reform home.
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