Today’s Motto: ‘Tears are words the heart can’t express’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 07 Oct….
1586 – The Mughal army entered Srinagar where ‘Khutbah’ was being recited i
n the name of the Emperor.
1919 – Mahatma Gandhi began the publication of his newspaper, ‘Navjeevan’.
1950 – Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata.
1952 – Chandigarh became the capital of Punjab. Known as City Beautiful and the Garden City was planned and 
dstructured by the French archtect Le Corbusier.
1992 – The Rapid Action Force in India to deal sympathetically and expertly with communal riots. This force also helps the civil administration in dealing with natural calamities.
1997 – Indian Central government women employees to get 135 days’ maternity leave and men to get 15 days’ paternity leave.
1999 – Long jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian man to go over the eight-metre twice when he leapt to a personal best of 8.02m at the National Athletic Circuit meet in Mumbai and sound a fresh threat to T. C. Yohannan’s two-decade old national record of 8.07m. The current record is 8.09 m set by Prem Kumar during the Railway championships in Aug 2013).
Born…. 1891 – Narhari Parikh. A Gujarati freedom fighter, author, social reformer was one of the freedom fighters and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He controlled all of Gandhi’s institutions from Bardoli near Surat (pic credit-theprint.in). 
1914 – Begum Akhtar (Akhtari Bai), famous ghazal and thumri singer. Also known as Mallika-e-Ghazal. She was born in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh.She was master of Ghazal. Dadra, Thumri in Hindustani Classical sangeet. She sang for All India Radio and for many films. She was honoured with Padma Bhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademy award in 1972.
RIP…. 1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and last Guru of the Sikhs. He was a great warrior, poet, philospher became 10th Guru at te age of 9 years, after his father Guru Teg Bahadur was executed by mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Delhi in 1675.He guided Sikhs for 33 years, until his death in 1708 by stabbing by Mughal soldiers. Guru Gobind Singh ordered that there will not be any living human as Guru, the holy Granth Sahib should be followed as living Guru of his disciples after him. He also selected Panj Piaras from a public convention (Sangat) to guide his followers. He also established Khalsa Panth to protect ladies, poor and weaker followers from Mughal tyranny. The 10 Sikh Gurus preached love, brotherhood and protected majority Hindus and their followers for over 240 years from Guru Nanak Dev ji (1469) to Guru Gobind Singh ji (1708).
You may have known…. A 2023 survey found that 1 in 2 Indians agree it’s important to live together before marriage to understand their partner better (called Live-in), whil
e another noted over 80% of millennials think they are still considered a taboo. { Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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