Today’s Motto: ‘Silence is not a void. It must be filled, even if nothing important is said’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !

On this day, 14 Oct….

1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in Lahore   (now Pakistan). It was  shfted to  Solan  (Himachal Pradesh) in 1947  as East Punjab University  and later to Chandigarh  in 1956 as Punjab University.

1910 – Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama’s agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.

1956 – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.

1989 – Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party under Balasaherb Thackerey.

1997 – Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex. Though she didn’t  offer any apology for the  massacre  of innocent  Indians  by  her  soldiers (pic credit-worldtimeshindi.com).

2008 – The Reserve Bank of India announced the release of an additional ₹200 billion to meet the needs of mutual funds.

Born…. 1884 – Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter. Delhi born  brilliant student of St. Stephens Delhi, who  went to Oxford University after completing B.A. in Sanskrit.  He mobilised  U.K. and Europe based Indian to  support Freedom Movement. He joined Communist Workers Party of Germany,  organised  a strike. Later he went to United States is belived to have been  poisoned by someone. He died on March 04, 1939. Lala Hardayal wrote  many books on Indian philisophy, Buddhist and  social issues. Govt. of India released a postal stamp in his memory in 1997.

You may have known…. The most recent data from India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicates that 29,670 rape cases were reported in 2023. The national average rape rate, which normalises the numbers by population, was 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2021 (depictive pic from AI).

                                                                                           {Compiled  by  Lt.  Gen.  (R)  Raj Kadyan}