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SC junks Tushar Gandhi’s plea on Sabarmati Ashram revamp

A bench comprising justices MM Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal underlined the delay of over two years by Tushar Gandhi in assailing a previous decision of the Gujarat high court

Tushar Gandhi
Published on Apr 02, 2025 07:32 AM IST

SC junks Tushar Gandhi’s plea against Gujarat’s Sabarmati Ashram redevelopment

Tushar Gandhi’s petition argued that the proposed redevelopment of Sabarmati Ashram threatens to erase its fundamental character, transforming it into a state-controlled monument rather than preserving its original essence

The Supreme Court of India. (File Photo)
Updated on Apr 01, 2025 12:12 PM IST

Review: In Pursuit of Freedom by Pradeep Damodaran

Travelling from Sabarmati to Champaran, Tentuligumma and beyond, Pradeep Damodaran combines history and on-ground reportage to present a picture of contemporary India

The Sabarmati Ashram today (Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:27 PM IST
ByShevlin Sebastian

Four coaches of Sabarmati-Agra superfast train derail in Rajasthan's Ajmer

At least four coaches of a superfast train derailed near Madar railway station in Rajasthan's Ajmer.

Visuals of the derailed train.
Updated on Mar 18, 2024 09:58 AM IST

Appeasement politics led to ruins of our heritage: PM Modi at Sabarmati Ashram

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ₹1,200-crore Gandhi Ashram Memorial master plan in Ahmedabad city and inaugurated the redeveloped Kochrab Ashram

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. (PTI)
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 09:09 PM IST

PM Modi's next 10-day plan: 12 states and UTs, 29 programmes and… | Details

On March 4, PM Modi will visit Telangana where he will unveil multiple development projects in Adilabad and address a public meeting.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo by Santosh Kumar/ Hindustan Times)
Published on Mar 04, 2024 06:49 AM IST

US Ambassador Eric Garcetti visits Gujarat's Sabarmati Ashram

Garcetti had earlier posted a video on his Twitter recounting his visit to the MaharasthraBhawan in Delhi.

Ambassador of United States to India Eric Garcetti spins the charkha during his visit to the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram.(PTI)
Updated on May 15, 2023 04:22 PM IST
ANI | By

UK PM Johnson visits Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, tries hand at charkha | Video

Boris Johnson was also gifted a copy of 'The Spirit's Pilgrimage' by Madeleine Slade (or Mirabehn), who was a British supporter of Indian independence and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries his hand on the ‘charkha’ at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.(ANI)
Updated on Apr 21, 2022 11:09 AM IST

Boris Johnson to get these gifts from Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram

Boris Johnson was scheduled due to visit India in January last year but the trip was cancelled as the second wave of the Covid-19 was sweeping the UK at the time.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the Sarda Vallabhbhai Patel International airport in Ahmedabad, Thursday, April 21, 2022, (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)(AP)
Updated on Apr 21, 2022 10:33 AM IST

Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann visit Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad

Their visit to the BJP-ruled Gujarat is being seen as an attempt to prepare the groundwork for their party ahead of the state Assembly elections scheduled to be held by the end of this year.

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. (File image)
Published on Apr 02, 2022 01:17 PM IST
PTI | , Ahmedabad

Apex court asks Guj HC to reconsider plea against Sabarmati redevelopment

The order was passed on an appeal filed by Gandhi against a November 25 order passed by the high court which went by an assurance given by the top law officer of the state that the Ashram and the ambience around it will not be disturbed.

The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Gujarat high court order dismissing a PIL filed by social activist and Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi challenging the Gujarat government’s Sabarmati Ashram redevelopment project. (HT PHOTO.)
Updated on Apr 02, 2022 06:19 AM IST
ByAbraham Thomas

Sabarmati Ashram project: SC to hear plea challenging redevelopment next week

A bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and C T Ravikumar on Friday listed the Sabarmati Ashram project matter for hearing.

The historic Sabarmati Ashram(Yahoo)
Published on Mar 25, 2022 04:37 PM IST
PTI |

Mahatma Gandhi left Sabarmati Ashram on July 31: Know its significance

The government has established the ashram as a national monument in recognition of the influence that Dandi March had on the Indian independence movement.

The historic Sabarmati Ashram has reopened its doors for visitors, after remaining closed for over nine months due to the coronavirus outbreak, an ashram official said on Tuesday.(Yahoo)
Published on Jul 31, 2021 07:35 AM IST
Written by Susmita Pakrasi | Edited by Meenakshi Ray, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

PM Modi to flag off Dandi March, launch 'Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav' today

The government said that the padyatra - part of Dandi March - will be undertaken by 81 marchers from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Dandi in Navsari, a journey of about 388 kilometres.

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.(PTI)
Published on Mar 12, 2021 08:15 AM IST
By | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi

Gujarat CM, his aide in charge of Gandhi ashram revamp panel

The order also said that Kailashnathan will head an executive council set up for the purpose,

Chief principal secretary to the CM, K Kailashnathan, respectively, to oversee the re-development of the iconic Sabarmati Ashram and its precincts.(AP/Ajit Solanki)
Updated on Mar 09, 2021 06:26 AM IST
ByDarshan Desai, Ahmedabad

Gujarat: Sabarmati Ashram reopens for visitors after 9 months

The historic Sabarmati Ashram here has reopened its doors for visitors, after remaining closed for over nine months due to the coronavirus outbreak, an ashram official said on Tuesday.

The historic Sabarmati Ashram here has reopened its doors for visitors, after remaining closed for over nine months due to the coronavirus outbreak, an ashram official said on Tuesday.(Yahoo)
Updated on Jan 05, 2021 03:28 PM IST
Ahmedabad | ByPress Trust of India | Posted by Shivani Kale

US first family gets ‘sense of peace’ at Sabarmati Ashram

According to Kartikeya Sarabhai, trustee of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, the visitors said they got a sense of “peace” after visiting the ashram where Gandhi lived between 1917 and 1930.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.(REUTERS)
Updated on Feb 25, 2020 07:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

At Sabarmati Ashram; Trumps feel ‘sense of peace’, try spinning

President Trump landed at the Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel airport in Ahmedabad at around 11:40 am following which he was given the guard of honour and welcomed with a traditional Gujarati ceremony.

US President Donald Trump tries spinning on a traditional 'charkha' at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday.(PTI PHOTO.)
Updated on Feb 24, 2020 05:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Trump’s visit was ‘short and sweet’: Sabarmati Ashram director

Ashram Atul Pandya said Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were interested in knowing about the culture of India.

During their visit to Ashram, they were seen spinning the Charkha, which is closely associated with India’s freedom struggle and Mahatma Gandhi.(PTI)
Updated on Feb 24, 2020 03:04 PM IST
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India | ByAsian News International

Donald Trump to visit Sabarmati Ashram

It has been confirmed that Trump would visit the Sabarmati Ashram with Modi shortly after flying into Ahmedabad on Monday afternoon.

A labourer pours a bucket of soil near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi (R) at Sabarmati Ashram also known as Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.(AFP)
Updated on Feb 24, 2020 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

On whirlwind India tour, Trump has Sabarmati Ashram, Taj Mahal, Rajghat on his list

President Trump will be on a whirlwind two-day state visit to India that will take him to Ahmedabad, Agra and national capital New Delhi.

President Donald Trump with first lady Melania Trump wave as they walk across the tarmac to board Air Force One at th Andrews Air Force Baseduring their departure to India onSunday.(AP PHOTO.)
Updated on Feb 24, 2020 07:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Visit to Sabarmati Ashram back on Donald Trump’s agenda during India visit

A person familiar with planning for the visit confirmed on Sunday afternoon that the Trumps would visit the Sabarmati Ashram shortly after flying into Ahmedabad on Monday afternoon.

Policemen stand in front of a billboard displaying a picture of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump in Ahmedabad on February 23, 2020, ahead of Trump's arrival.(AFP)
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 02:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

US President Trump to be gifted spinning wheel, Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, portrait during Sabarmati Ashram visit

Sabarmati Ashram trustees Kartikeya Sarabhai and Amrut Modi said the American president, US First Lady Melania Trump and Prime Minister Modi would spend around 30 minutes at the ashram.

US President Trump will be the first US president to visit the Sabarmati Ashram (in photo), a place closely associated with India’s freedom struggle.(ANI)
Updated on Feb 18, 2020 07:54 PM IST
Ahmedabad | ByPress Trust of India

Ahmedabad preps for 22km Trump-Modi roadshow, 50k people to line up along route

As per the route plan given to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) by authorities, Trump and Modi will first reach the Sabarmati Ashram, a place closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, from the international airport.

PM Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump during the Howdy Modi Community Summit in Houston, Texas, US on September 22, 2019.(Bloomberg Photo)
Updated on Feb 15, 2020 12:29 AM IST
Ahmedabad | ByPress Trust of India

Gandhi Jayanti 2019: ‘One-man, one-resolve’ is PM’s mantra for nation’s tribute to Mahatma

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to all Indians to take one resolution each in the country’s interest and follow it for one year

PM Modi at Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad(Twitter/@BJP4India)
Updated on Oct 02, 2019 10:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Revisiting Sabarmati central jail where Gandhi was first imprisoned in 1922

Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary: Five years after Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarked on a long freedom struggle with the 1917 Champaran Satyagraha, this prison in Ahmedabad became the first of the total 10 confinements he was subjected to between 1922 and 1944.

Gandhiji was a lone prisoner in the yard comprising eight cells especially built for high-profile prisoners by the British rulers in 1895.(Getty Images)
Updated on Oct 02, 2019 01:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Indian Embassy in Russia organises Gandhi-Tolstoy exhibition on Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary

The exhibition, curated by renowned Gandhi scholar, Birad Yajnik, will showcase the correspondence between the two great souls of the 20th century, tracing their relationship and the impact it had on their individual journeys.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar along with Ekaterina Tolstoy, Director of the Tolstoy Museum and Estate, inaugurated an exhibition dedicated to the friendship between Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.(@IndEmbMoscow/Twitter)
Updated on Oct 02, 2019 11:08 AM IST
Moscow | ByAsian News International

Gandhi Jayanti highlights: India of Bapu’s dream will follow ‘sabka sath, sabka vikas’, says PM Modi

The country celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday as several events including marches, cleanliness drives and blood donation camps marked the day.Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mahatma’s resting place Raj Ghat in the morning to pay tribute to the Father of the Nation before going to Sabarmati Ashram where hetook part in a cleanliness drive in the evening.Earlier in the day, BJP president and Union home minister Amit Shah flagged off party’s Gandhi Sankalp Yatra from Delhi. Congress leaders, led by party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi, took out a Gandhi Sandesh padyatra from the party’s Delhi office. Highlights:

Updated on Oct 02, 2019 11:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

An archival treasure on Gandhi

Bolstered by his experience of ashram life in South Africa, Gandhi first set up an ashram in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad, which he later shifted to its present site on the banks of the river Sabarmati.

Pratima behn, a communicator at the Sabarmati ashram, explains aspects of Gandhi’s life.(Raj K Raj/HT)
Updated on Sep 30, 2019 01:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

The Gandhian who brought the charkha to Nepal

Shrestha was born in Kathmandu in 1896. From an early age, he showed signs of being a social reformer. He became one of the leaders of the Satyacharan Malami Guthi that worked to end outdated death related rites and rituals in Nepal.

Tulsi Mehar Shrestha with Jawaharlal Nehru, Nepal.(by special arrangement)
Updated on Nov 04, 2019 02:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByManjeev Singh Puri
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