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Narendra Modi Stadium: Is this megalomania or insecurity?

A concern with institutionalising Modi's legacy is also reflected in his photograph being sent into outer space along with the Bhagawad Gita on India's first indigenously built Satish Dhawan satellite

Only Motera stadium renamed, complex still has Sardar Patel's name: Govt

The clarification comes amid a controversy over a cricket stadium in Gujarat being renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Dinyar Patel's book, Naoroji, fills a gap in major historical scholarship

Historical scholarship has been so preoccupied with the later nationalists - Gandhi, Patel, Nehru, Bose et al - that it has neglected, or been indifferent to, the individual who started it all.

Nehru and Sardar

A new book more or less confirms something about which there has been a lot of speculation: Nehru did not intend to make Sardar Patel a member of his first Cabinet

PM Modi offers floral tributes to Sardar Patel on his birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country's first home minister, at the Statue of Unity here on the occasion of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on Thursday. October 31, Patel's birth anniversary, is celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) since 2014. As the prime minister offered floral tributes, flower petals were showered on the world's tallest statue by an Indian Air Force helicopter. The 182-metre-tall statue of Sardar Patel was inaugurated by Modi on October 31 last year. The PM also administered 'national unity pledge' to the gathering on this occasion. The prime minister watched 'Ekta parade' in which personnel of the Gujarat Police, Jammu & Kashmir Police, Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force took part. Mock drill demonstrations were conducted by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), National Disaster Response Force and National Security Guard. CISF personnel gave a demonstration

Would you plan a vacation to see the Statue Of Unity? 60% say 'No': BS Poll

Business Standard conducted a poll asking if they would plan a vacation to visit the world's largest statue. Here are the results

Sardar Patel should have been first recipient of Bharat Ratna: Amit Shah

The birth anniversary of Sardar Patel is being celebrated across the country as 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas'

Sardar Patel got Bharat Ratna only when a non-Gandhi was PM, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Country's 1st home minister was given Bharat Ratna in 1991 by the Narasimha Rao govt, 41 years after his death