Every year on December 4, the Indian Navy organises a Beating Retreat ceremony at the Gateway of India in Mumbai to commemorate the audacious attack carried out by the Indian missile boats on the Pakistani Navy headquarters, Karachi on December 4, 1971.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that during the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2014, he supported BJP because he did not want Shiv Sena and BJP to come together.
A total of 304 declassified records and files have been transferred to the National Archives of India by the Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs for permanent retention.
The serpent king (Nagaraja) idol dates back to the 6th or 8th Century and is believed to be from Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh. The 'Dwarapalas' from Tamil Nadu is said to be from the 15th century.
Dwivedi alleged that a nexus has worked in tandem to appoint Firoze Khan in the faculty. He also alleged that the main interviewers were all known to Khan and other short-listed candidates were deliberately asked questions that they could not answer.