Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah today addressed the 152nd birth anniversary celebrations of most Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Ji as the Chief Guest in Nadia, ...

According to the Centre, the move is intended to standardise respect for the national song and remove what they describe as an artificial distinction between "acceptable" and "excluded" verses.

Originally written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in highly Sanskritised Bengali, Vande Mataram was composed in the 1870s ...

The Union Home Ministry has issued fresh guidelines mandating that ‘Vande Mataram’ be played before the national anthem, ...

Musician Anoushka Shankar recently denied claims that sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma was a disciple of her father, the ...

MHA order states that when both national song and anthem are played together, Vande Mataram will be played first, with ...

The new order will draw political controversy as the BJP and the Congress have been at loggerheads over this matter last year.

Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma has shared photos and a video from his Ganda Bandhan ceremony to prove that Pandit Ravi Shankar was ...

By ordering the mandatory inclusion of all six stanzas of Vande Mataram into the national song, insisting that it be performed before the country’s secular national anthem, the government has ...

For the first time ever, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made it mandatory to sing or play all six stanzas of the original composition of Vande Mataram by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, a ...

In an interview, Anoushka Shankar said, "He learnt very intensively with someone very dear to me, one of my father's senior ...

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