Azad Current Affairs, GK & News

Gian Chand, veteran Freedom Fighter passes away

Gian Chand (93), the veteran freedom fighter, has passed away at his native village in Mohalla Ramgarh of Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh on May 27, 2019. Born on 26th October 1926, Chand was a member of Azad Hind Fauj led by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Topics: Axis powers • Azad • Bose • Chamba • Chandrabose • Collaboration with the Axis Powers • Indian independence movement • Indian National Army • Military • Netaji • Subhas Chandra Bose • World War II

National Education Day (NED) in India celebrated on 11 Nov

The National Education Day (NED) is celebrated every year in India on 11th of November to commemorate the birth anniversary of great freedom fighter, educationist & social reformer Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was also the independent India’s first education minister (served from 1947 to 1958). In 1912, he started a weekly journal in Urdu ..

Topics: Abul Kalam Azad • Azad • Bharat Ratna • India • Indian Council for Cultural Relations • Indian Muslims • Lalit Kala Akademi • Music education in India • Sahitya Akademi • Sangeet Natak Akademi

Current Affairs – News Headlines: October 22 , 2018

Here are the main headlines for current affairs of October 22, 2018. National Current Affairs National Police Memorial inaugurated by PM in New Delhi on Police Commemoration Day (October 22) The museum capturing the history, artefacts, uniform and gear of central and state police forces is an underground facility in the premises of the national ..

Topics: Axis powers • Azad • Azad Hind • Bose • Chandrabose • Collaboration with the Axis Powers • Indian independence movement • Indian National Army • Rosatom • Subhas Chandra Bose • World War II

Country celebrates 75th anniversary of formation of Azad Hind Government

On 21st October 1943, the Azad Hind Government was formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who was the leader of Azad Hind Government and also the Head of State of this Provisional Indian Government-in-exile. It was a part of the freedom movement, originating in 1940s outside India with a purpose of allying with Axis powers ..

Topics: Azad • Azad Hind • Azad Hind Bank • Collaboration with the Axis Powers • INA treasure controversy • Indian independence movement • Indian National Army • Political history • Politics • Subhas Chandra Bose

Raghuvir Singh, lone freedom fighter of Muzaffarnagar district passes away

Raghuvir Singh (95), the lone freedom fighter of Muzaffarnagar district, has passed away in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on May 19, 2018. Singh was part of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj.

Topics: Abbas Ali • Axis powers • Azad • Collaboration with the Axis Powers • Indian independence movement • Indian National Army • Military • Muzaffarnagar • Ram Singh Thakuri • Subhas Chandra Bose • World War II

Firoz Bakht Ahmed nominated as new Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU)

Firoz Bakht Ahmed, the noted social activist, educationist and columnist, has been nominated as new Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) for a period of 3 years and he succeeded Zafar Sareshwala. Firoz Bakht is grand nephew of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was the first education minister of India. He is a ..

Topics: Abul • Abul Kalam Azad • Azad • Education in India • India • Indian Muslims • Indian people • Maulana Azad National Urdu University