Jallianwala Bagh centenary: Centre, state plan separate events
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh centenary: Centre, state plan separate events

Hindustan Times  

Even as the centenary of Jallianwala Bagh massacre is being observed as the day of national integration and unity on Saturday, the Centre and the state government are organising separate events to pay tribute to those fell to the bullet of General Dyer on April 13, 1919. On the other hand, the state government has planned its own programme, which will start at 9am, as per an Capt rejects regret by British PM, demands official apology Rejecting the regret expressed by British prime minister Theresa May as inadequate, chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday demanded an unequivocal official apology from Britain for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, whose centenary is being observed on Saturday. Captain Amarinder joined governor VPS Badnore here on Friday evening in a candlelight march to pay homage to the martyrs. The march started from the historic Town Hall and culminated at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial.

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Spirit of patriotism of Jallianwala Bagh martyrs will always inspire coming generations: President Droupadi Murmu
9 months ago

Spirit of patriotism of Jallianwala Bagh martyrs will always inspire coming generations: President Droupadi Murmu

The Hindu  

President Droupadi Murmu expressed heartfelt tributes on April 13 to the people who sacrificed their lives for the country in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and said the spirit of patriotism of those martyrs will keep inspiring the coming generations. In a post on X, PM Narendra Modi said, “On behalf of my family members across the country, I pay my …

President Murmu, PM Modi, others pay tribute to Jallianwala Bagh massacre victims
9 months ago

President Murmu, PM Modi, others pay tribute to Jallianwala Bagh massacre victims

India TV News  

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi among other leaders paid tribute to the people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 on Friday. President Droupadi Murmu also remembered the victims of massacre and said, "My heartfelt tribute to all the freedom fighters who sacrificed everything for the motherland in Jallianwala Bagh! In a post on X PM …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Date: Some Lesser Known Facts That Everyone Must Know
1 year, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Date: Some Lesser Known Facts That Everyone Must Know

The Quint  

After people came to know about the Rowlatt Act, they gathered together in Jallianwala Bagh, a public area in Amritsar for peaceful protests, The protesters included people of all age groups including men, women, and children. The protests were considered as a threat to the authority of the British colonial government, led by General Reginald Dyer, who made the decision …

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Background, causes, aftermath and significance
2 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Background, causes, aftermath and significance

India Today  

Very few moments in the history of our sub-continent are as repulsive to remember and yet as significant to history as the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919, when a group of peaceful protestors was gunned down in an enclosed park with only one exit. BACKGROUND OF JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACARE If we …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Remembering the dark day 103 years later
2 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Remembering the dark day 103 years later

India TV News  

Highlights Shots were fired on the orders of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who was the acting Brigadier He had asked his troops to shoot indiscriminately without asking the crowd to disperse The site was an enclosed garden known as Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab's Amritsar The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place exactly 103 years back on April 13, 1919. Let's look at …

Republic Day Parade: Gujarat Tableau to Shed Light on Untold Story of Genocide Under British Rule in 1922
2 years, 11 months ago

Republic Day Parade: Gujarat Tableau to Shed Light on Untold Story of Genocide Under British Rule in 1922

News 18  

The Jallianwalla Bagh, a park where on April 6, 1919 troops under British command killed at least 379 unarmed demonstrators. No one knows about the massacre in remote Bhil village of Gujarat on March 7, 1922, where around 1,200 people died, houses were burnt and many more were seriously injured in Pal and Dadhavav villages of Sabarkantha district in Gujarat. …

PM Modi's first Punjab rally post scrapping of farm laws: All you need to know
3 years ago

PM Modi's first Punjab rally post scrapping of farm laws: All you need to know

India Today  

The Punjab BJP is all geared up for a saffron carpet welcome for the Prime Minister's visit on Wednesday, his first since the repeal of the farm bills to Punjab's Ferozepur. The town with nearly 70 per cent Hindu population, has big posters of PM Modi with several of them mentioning "Jee Aayan Nu" plastered at every nook and corner …

Armed intruder arrested at Windsor Castle wanted to avenge the dead in Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Queen Elizabeth II, claims video
3 years ago

Armed intruder arrested at Windsor Castle wanted to avenge the dead in Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Queen Elizabeth II, claims video

Firstpost  

Officers from the Thames Valley and the Metropolitan Police say the suspect was carrying an offensive weapon and the royal family was informed A 19-year-old man with an offensive weapon was arrested on Sunday for breaching the security at Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II is spending her Christmas. Following the incident, a video has surfaced which alleges that the …

Watch | The newly renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex
3 years, 4 months ago

Watch | The newly renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex in Amritsar on August 28, 2021. Renovation work was carried out at the site of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the Archaeological Survey of India and NBCC India, under the supervision of the Culture Ministry. Before Independence, surrounded by the back walls of houses in the cramped Walled City, Jallianwala …

Jallianwala Bagh | Monument of a massacre
3 years, 4 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh | Monument of a massacre

The Hindu  

A debate over how the Jallianwala Bagh massacre should be remembered was sparked off last week after the government unveiled the renovated look of the site, leading some historians to say history was being distorted. While inaugurating the renovated memorial, Mr. Modi said the new look of Jallianwala Bagh would inspire Indians for years to come. Professor Amandeep Bal, head …

'Congress didn't even construct a washroom there': BJP after Rahul calls Jallianwala Bagh renovation 'insult'
3 years, 4 months ago

'Congress didn't even construct a washroom there': BJP after Rahul calls Jallianwala Bagh renovation 'insult'

India TV News  

The BJP on Tuesday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his attack on the government over the renovation of the Jallianwala Bagh memorial, alleging that his party did not even construct a washroom at the site but is now doing politics over the exercise undertaken by the Modi dispensation. Hitting out at Gandhi, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh …

Jallianwala Bagh row: Historian slams revamp as Cong, BJP trade charges
3 years, 4 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh row: Historian slams revamp as Cong, BJP trade charges

India Today  

The reported changes in the old structures of the Jallianwala Bagh after the renovation have kicked off a controversy with the Congress terming it "indecent cruelty". "Devastated to hear that the Jallianwala Bagh site of Amritsar massacre 1919 has been revamped -which means that the last traces of the event have effectively been erased. CONGRESS OFFENSIVE Congress leader and Punjab …

Decoded | Why renovated Jallianwala Bagh Smarak has landed in controversy
3 years, 4 months ago

Decoded | Why renovated Jallianwala Bagh Smarak has landed in controversy

India Today  

Last week, on August 28, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the general public to be witness to the inauguration of the renovated complex of the Jallianwala Bagh Smarak. PM Modi said the renovated Jallianwala Bagh Smarak “would display the horrific massacre of April 1919 and instil a spirit of gratitude and reverence towards the martyrs”. However, the renovation of the …

Jallianwala Bagh has inspired countless revolutionaries: PM
3 years, 4 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh has inspired countless revolutionaries: PM

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dedicated the renovated Jallianwala Bagh memorial to the nation virtually. Jallianwala Bagh has inspired countless revolutionaries: PM During the event that showcased the multiple development initiatives taken by the government to upgrade the complex, the PM also inaugurated the museum galleries at the national memorial revamped in wake of 100th anniversary of the 1919 …

PM Modi inaugurates renovated Jallianwala Bagh memorial complex, says country's duty to protect its history
3 years, 4 months ago

PM Modi inaugurates renovated Jallianwala Bagh memorial complex, says country's duty to protect its history

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that it is every country's duty to protect its history as events of the past "teach us and give us direction to move forward". While virtually inaugurating the Jallianwala Bagh memorial complex and paying homage to the martyrs, PM Modi said, "The global developments remind us of the importance of self-reliance and self-confidence. …

Vidurashwatha Massacre, the Forgotten Jallianwala Bagh of South India
3 years, 8 months ago

Vidurashwatha Massacre, the Forgotten Jallianwala Bagh of South India

Hindustan Times  

The year was 1938 and India’s freedom struggle was at its peak. On the morning of April 25, a group of villages led by leaders of the Indian National Congress had gathered at an open ground in Vidurashwatha village, close to the now Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border, in Chikkballapur district, to hoist the national flag. Gangadhara Murthy, a retired professor and …

102 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal pay tribute to martyrs
3 years, 9 months ago

102 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal pay tribute to martyrs

Firstpost  

General Dyer entered the premises of Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh and ordered the British Army to open fire on innocent civilians British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered the shooting at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh 102 years ago, in which 35 Indians had died, as per British figures. Praying tributes to the people who lost their lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Their courage, …

102 years of Jallianwala Bagh massacre: When British General Dyer rained bullets on thousands of Indians
3 years, 9 months ago

102 years of Jallianwala Bagh massacre: When British General Dyer rained bullets on thousands of Indians

Firstpost  

The Jallianwala Bagh had witnessed a massacre at the hands of the British 102 years ago, when thousands of men, women and children were killed on the orders of British general Reginald Dyer. The official number of deaths, released by the British, stood at 350, but the Congress party said as many as 1,000 people lost their lives in the …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Amarinder Singh, Kejriwal pay tribute to martyrs on tragedy's 101st anniversary
4 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Amarinder Singh, Kejriwal pay tribute to martyrs on tragedy's 101st anniversary

Firstpost  

On 13 April, 1919, British soldiers, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, opened fire at a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on Baisakhi On 13 April, 1919, British soldiers, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, opened fire at a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in …

Bill to remove Congress President as permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust passed
5 years, 1 month ago

Bill to remove Congress President as permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust passed

Op India  

The Parliament on Tuesday has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Bill, 2019 which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee of the memorial. According to the reports, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Bill 2019, paving the way for the removal of the Congress president as a permanent member of the Trust …

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for massacre at Jallianwala Bagh memorial
5 years, 4 months ago

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for massacre at Jallianwala Bagh memorial

Live Mint  

Amritsar: Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby on Tuesday visited Jallianwala Bagh memorial and said that he was both 'ashamed and sorry' for the crime which was committed at that site in 1919. While paying homage at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial, Welby said, "I cannot speak for the British Government. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April, 1919, when …

Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019: Govt proposes removing Congress chief as trustee of historic site
5 years, 5 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019: Govt proposes removing Congress chief as trustee of historic site

Firstpost  

The current amendment seeks ’to delete the President of the Indian National Congress’ as a trustee and to have the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha as a trustee. The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on 8 June. The Bill — that amends the Jallianwala Bagh …

Shaheed Udham Singh Jayanti 2019: All you need to know about the man who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre
5 years, 5 months ago

Shaheed Udham Singh Jayanti 2019: All you need to know about the man who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Firstpost  

Following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, a little known Indian Udham Singh waited for 21 years to avenge the death of the innocents by assassinating British administrator Michael O’Dwyer in 1940. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre On 13 April, 1919, the day of the Baisakhi festival, about 20,000 unarmed men, women and children gathered at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh. How his fight …

Congress opposes Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill
5 years, 6 months ago

Congress opposes Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill

Op India  

The Modi government on Monday introduced the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Bill, that seeks to do away with the automatic nomination of the President of the Indian National Congress to the Jallianwala Bagh Trust and gives more power to the Central government to terminate the term of a nominated trustee. The Bill amends the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951. …

Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919
5 years, 7 months ago

Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919

Hindustan Times  

It is still April when I visit Jallianwala Bagh, a full 100 years after the 1919 massacre. Free from any discipline of the memorial to observe decorum, visitors picnic merrily in the shaded colonnades But at the Bagh it is just another day in the park. Instead, the visitors are all set to follow the advice of a popular tourism …

Jallianwala Bagh centenary: Lack of formal apology from UK casts shadow over memorial event in London
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh centenary: Lack of formal apology from UK casts shadow over memorial event in London

Firstpost  

London: The failure of the UK government to tender a formal apology on the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was the overwhelming focus of a commemorative event held at the House of Lords complex in London on Saturday. Indian-origin peers Lord Raj Loomba and Lord Meghnad Desai were joined by fellow members of the Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Committee …

Jallianwala Bagh: The massacre that shook the empire
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh: The massacre that shook the empire

Live Mint  

The actual shooting is supposed to have lasted only about 10 minutes. As the famous sequence in Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi suggests, when the British officer Gen. Reginald Dyer saw some men trying to flee the park by trying to scale a wall, he ordered his men to aim in that direction, killing more. Gandhi launched the non-cooperation movement with …

Jallianwala Bagh: Massacre of innocents that shaped history
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh: Massacre of innocents that shaped history

Hindustan Times  

Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh was a desolate piece of land partly used for dumping garbage until British General Reginald Dyer oversaw the massacre of several hundred unarmed people gathered there on April 13, 1919, to protest against a draconian law that allowed internments without trial. Davinder Pal Singh, a Sikh scholar whose family has been running a shop for decades near …

An ode to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh
5 years, 9 months ago

An ode to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh

The Hindu  

One of the first poems written in protest after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 is being republished to mark the centenary of the tragedy that galvanised the movement for Indian independence. Khooni Vaisakhi, a classic work of protest poetry by the late Nanak Singh, was translated by his grandson Navdeep Suri, who is India’s Ambassador to the UAE. The …

Deeply regret suffering caused due to Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British PM Theresa May
5 years, 9 months ago

Deeply regret suffering caused due to Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British PM Theresa May

India Today  

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday expressed "deep regret" for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, carried out by British colonial troops in India. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has also called the Jallianwala Bagh massacre a "deeply shameful" incident during his visit to India in 2013. This is the cross party letter signed by over 80 MPs calling …

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: The unending wait for an apology from Britain
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: The unending wait for an apology from Britain

The Hindu  

During a visit to Amritsar in February 2013, the then British Prime Minister David Cameron described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre as a “deeply shameful event in British history,” insisting that “we must never forget what happened there”. In June 2013, the government said it would pay £19.9 million in compensation to more than 5,000 Kenyan claimants, while the then Foreign …

100 years later: The many meanings of Jallianwala Bagh
5 years, 9 months ago

100 years later: The many meanings of Jallianwala Bagh

The Hindu  

It has often been said that Britain lost its empire the day when, a hundred years ago, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, 55, commanding a regiment of 50 Gurkha and Baluchi riflemen, ordered firing without warning upon an unarmed crowd of over 15,000 Indians gathered at an enclosure called the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, a stone’s throw from the Golden Temple. It …

Revenge of the Raj: UK disarray as Jallianwala anniversary looms!
5 years, 9 months ago

Revenge of the Raj: UK disarray as Jallianwala anniversary looms!

Deccan Chronicle  

Has this strange coincidence struck you as well? The closer we get to the anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre — the greater the political disarray in the UK? So if I believed in the afterlife, I would imagine that these coming weeks could see the revenge of those thousands who were killed at Jallianwala Bagh 100 years ago… Could …

Partition Museum's Punjab Under Siege exhibit recounts Jallianwala Bagh massacre through personal testimonies
6 years, 4 months ago

Partition Museum's Punjab Under Siege exhibit recounts Jallianwala Bagh massacre through personal testimonies

Firstpost  

Most of us think of Jallianwala Bagh as an isolated incident, but it was part of a much larger violent repression, says Mallika Ahluwalia, curator of Partition Museum in Amritsar It was nearly a 100 years ago, at the tipping point of India’s history, when thousands gathered on a fateful Baisakhi day, the harvest festival of Punjab, at the Jallianwala …

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