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Dismissing the plea, the court said, "We intend to caution the petitioners to be more careful when they take it upon themselves to espouse such cause. For these reasons, there is no doubt that this PIL is an abuse of the process of law and we intend to dismiss it with exemplary costs. We refrain ourselves from imposing costs and hope the petitioners will be more careful when appearing in person."

The circular issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions read that all Central Govt offices, Central institutions and Central industrial establishments throughout India would remain closed till 2.30 pm on January 22.

Bihar government's education department reduced number of holidays from 23 to 11 from September to December.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday questioned why is there no 'national' holiday for Christmas.

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan's son Babil on Wednesday took to Instagram to express fear of not being afraid to post anything on social media against the 'people in power' as it may ruin his career.

Shekhar Gupta has shown in his video how an ideal Durbari should work and defend Rajiv Gandhi for his vacation using INS Viraat like even Congress leaders can not.

India Today had covered the story on Rajiv Gandhi vacationing on INS Viraat exclusively back in 1988, Anita Pratap writes, "The island had been chosen with care: it is the only one in the strategic archipelago on which foreigners are not banned"

Gandhi Jayanti has ben only partially rolled back as a Holiday.