“These freedom fighters operated independently of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, undermining Gandhi and nonviolence within India’s independence movement, ” according to the article, headlined: Modi is Rewriting India’s National Narrative. “By highlighting them in the speech, Modi subtly pushed back against the conventional narrative and Gandhi’s central role in it,” it said. Instead, according to the article, Modi sought to define Indians as Hindus. Finally, Modi used the occasion to launch familiar jabs against the opposition Indian National Congress party while overlooking critical challenges facing the Indian state—including religious intolerance, it was pointed out. Modi’s speech this week reflects the departure that India’s contemporary leaders have made from these foundational values.”

These advertisements are mostly based on, or inspired by, foreign media, depicting their culture, having nothing to do with us. I fail to understand why such silly ideas are adopted by the advertising agencies, and approved by the clients concerned. Wasting money on poor advertisement content hardly makes any sense. I think our educational institutions lack research-based education to prepare our marketing professionals to indulge in original thinking and to come up with ideas keeping in view our culture and ethics. We need to think over this and review our advertisement content policies.

Some resort to watching baseball or spending time outside with loved ones, but me, I choose to look at what remaining free agents could be good choices to bring to Leafs training camp on a Professional Try-Out (PTO) agreement. With their skill levels, if some chemistry or a really good fit developed in training camp, then a contract could easily have materialized for either of them. In 2016, they brought what must be a record of 14 PTO players to training camp, including the recently-retired @Rich Clune. Johan LarssonAfter coming off of a 2-year $1.4M AAV contract with Arizona, where he was traded at the deadline to the Washington Capitals, Johan Larsson is still seeking an NHL contract. For context, that’s 50th best of all forwards, and better than all Leafs forwards except for the Matthews, Marner and Michael Bunting line.

Pakistan has reported two deaths in the last 24 hours by coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,566,652. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 30,555 on Monday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 416 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across the country in the past 24 hours. Pakistan has conducted 16,764 tests in the past 24 hours. The COVID Positivity Ratio was recorded at 2.48 percent.

The next action for us to watch will be the Blackhawks’ prospects facing Minnesota’s next generation the second weekend in September. On Sunday night, NHL Network dropped their rankings of the top 20 wings in the NHL right now. And he commented on a number of the Blackhawks’ prospects. Here are Wheeler’s comments about the Blackhawks’ players in the WJC. New @TheAthleticNHL: https://t.co/qDzhlRQcJ7 — Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) August 21, 2022Nathan MacKinnon had himself a day with the Stanley Cup in Halifax this weekend.

SWAT: A schoolteacher Dina Kumari, belonging to the Sikh community of village Pacha Kale in Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, accepted Islam and got married with youth of her village. The parents of Dina and local Sikh community members, however, demanded action against the youth, alleging that the girl was kidnapped and forced to marriage. The Sikh community blocked the main highway in protest to register a case of abduction of a Sikh girl. On the other hand, Buner police took Newly Muslim Dina and her husband Hizbullah into custody from Shangla District and produced them in the court. During the protest of the Sikh community, a patient died on the way because he did not reach the hospital on time.

The official vehicle of Ring Road Police worth millions of rupees was stolen. The police kept making announcements on the wireless set about the stolen vehicle, but the vehicle could not be found. According to the details, near Gajomata Gol Chakkar area of Police station Kahana, unidentified thieves stole the official vehicle of Ring Road Police. The colour of the stolen vehicle is white and model is of 2007. According to the sources the official wireless set of the Ring Road Police was also in the vehicle at the time of theft.

Me: A State needs an able and honest government to make policies, both domestic and foreign. He: But Sir, can you name any of the aforementioned pre-requisites presently available in the socio-political milieu of Pakistan? This is the time that your country needs you the most. The writer is a former Ambassador of Pakistan and author of seven books in three languages. He can be reached at najmussaqib1960@msn.comA State needs an able and honest government to make policies, both domestic and foreign.

PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan on Sunday maintained that only his party could keep the nation united and the army could never do it alone. The PTI chief said only a political party could keep the country united. Imran maintained that all methods of fixing the economy and bringing political stability would fail unless free and fair elections were held. “Whatever wrong is happening in Pakistan, it is being attributed to you [neutrals],” Imran claimed. “Why was there a need to remove Imran Khan?” the PTI chief questioned.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman (PTI) Imran Khan Sunday said his disqualification would be the nation’s loss, as his party was the only party in the country that enjoyed popular support across Pakistan. “Regime change was staged in Pakistan as Imran Khan has rejected the US slavery. Condemning Shahbaz Gill’s arrest, Imran Khan said, “Gill was abducted and tortured. They made photos of Shahbaz Gill after subjecting him to torture.”He added that he would never accept the rule of thieves. The PTI chairman claimed that Nawaz Sharif and Khawaja Asif had said more bitter things against the army than Shahbaz Gill, but no one caught them because they were powerful.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday booked for threatening Islamabad police officers and female magistrate under Section 7 of anti-Terrorism act (ATA) regarding his statements at the PTI rally, a day ago. the former prime minister lauded his workers, saying that people have come out in large numbers on 24 hours notice. The former prime minister said that the sleeping nation has woken up for the first time. Challenging the coalition government, Imran Khan said that whatever the government does, it will not stop the masses, because people want freedom. Imran Khan said his party will not spare Islamabad’s IG and DIG, saying a vulnerable person was tortured.

A major mishap was averted at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Saturday when a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft came face-to-face with a private carrier plane allegedly due to an air traffic controller (ATC) miscommunication and negligence. The incident occurred when the Karachi-bound aircraft from Lahore was preparing to land on the runway when it observed a plane taxiing from the opposite direction. With only three-miles distance left between the two, both planes nearly collided. According to the sources, the airtaffic controller immediately directed the private airline's aircraft to land on runway number 7 while the PIA flight was directed to land on runway number 25. The PIA captain landed the aircraft and directed the oncoming plane for a go-around manoeuvre.

Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday asked the "neutrals" why he was ousted through a ‘foreign-funded’ vote of no-confidence in parliament, saying that his only crime is that he has not accepted the "imported" government. What has Imran khan done? He said that when police resorted to violence on PTI’s May 25 rally, they were informed that they had orders to do so. If you weaken PTI you will weaken the country," he added. Imran said that he did not want to end his May 25 rally but he did so anyway to avoid bloodshed in the country.

The rally was staged by the PTI to express solidarity with Gill and record a protest against, what Imran claimed, the “blatant fascism” prevalent under the “imported regime”. “I want to tell my neutrals that this is a problem of Pakistan [hence] it’s imperative for you to stand with the people and justice instead of ‘thieves’,” Imran added. In Gill’s case, Imran claimed, when the PTI had approached the Islamabad police and Adiala jail authorities to inquire who was involved in torturing him, they simply replied that they had received orders from the “top”. Alleging that the rule of law was violated in Gill’s case, he said the PTI would approach the apex court. The PTI chief said he was seeing that the nation had fully awakened.

MULTAN – Agriculture department has extended date for receipt of applications to provide laser land levelers to farmers under National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses (Phase II) till August 25, 2022. The applicants must have own tractor for use of laser levelers. While all such farmers who have obtained laser land leveler under any other scheme would not be eligible to apply. Interested farmers could submit complete applications to the office of their respective Deputy Director (Irrigation Reform) by 25 August 2022. Farmers might contact the Ministry of Agriculture (Irrigation Reform) on phone number 042-99200757 during office hours, said a handout issued here on Saturday.