Consider the following nationalist activities and find out the true ones:

A. Chapekar brothers assassinated two unpopular British Officials in Poona in 1897
B. V.D. Savarkar organised ‘Abhinav Bharat’ in 1905, a secret society of revolutionaries
C. In 1908, Tilak was again arrested and given the rigorous sentence of 6 years imprisonment
D. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad brought out his nationalist ideas in his newspaper ‘Al Hilal’ in 1915 at the age of 30
E. In 1914, the government suppressed the publication of the ‘Comrade’ of Maulana Mohammad Ali

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct option is D

The correct Answer: A, C and E only

A. (True): The Chapekar brothers (Damodar and Balkrishna) assassinated two unpopular British officials, W.C. Rand (Plague Commissioner) and Lt. Ayerst, in Poona on June 22, 1897. This was in retaliation for the atrocities committed during the plague relief measures.
B. (False): V.D. Savarkar organized the secret society 'Abhinav Bharat' (Young India Society) in 1904, not 1905. It evolved from an earlier organization called Mitra Mela (founded in 1899).
C. (True): In 1908, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for sedition (defending the revolutionaries in his paper Kesari) and was sentenced to 6 years of rigorous imprisonment. He was sent to Mandalay Jail (Burma).
D. (False): Maulana Abul Kalam Azad launched his famous newspaper 'Al-Hilal' in 1912, not 1915.  By 1915, Al-Hilal had already been banned (1914). In 1915, he launched a new journal called Al-Balagh.
E. (True): The publication of the 'Comrade' (an English weekly) by Maulana Mohammad Ali was indeed suppressed by the government in 1914 (specifically September) under the Press Act, due to its pro-Turkish and anti-British stance during World War I.

Information Booster: 

1. The Chapekar Brothers & The Plague of 1897
The assassination was the first violent revolutionary act in 20th-century India.
The British administration, led by W.C. Rand, used brutal methods (forceful entry into houses, stripping of women for examination) to control the Bubonic Plague in Pune.
Three brothers—Damodar, Balkrishna, and Vasudev Chapekar—were executed. The Natu Brothers were also deported without trial for allegedly inciting the act.
Tilak's Role: Bal Gangadhar Tilak was accused of inciting them through his speeches on the Afzal Khan episode (justifying the killing of a tyrant).

2. V.D. Savarkar & Abhinav Bharat
It started as ‘Mitra Mela’ in Nasik in 1899 and was renamed Abhinav Bharat in 1904 (inspired by Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy).
While in London (India House), Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence 1857. This book was banned by the British before it was even published because it reframed the "Mutiny" as the first war of national liberation.
Nasik Conspiracy Case (1909): The society was involved in the killing of A.M.T. Jackson (District Magistrate of Nasik) by Anant Kanhere.

3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s Imprisonment (1908)
He was charged with sedition under Section 124A for two articles in his Marathi newspaper Kesari: "The Country's Misfortune" (Deshache Durdaiv) and "These Remedies Are Not Lasting".
During his 6 years in Mandalay Jail (Burma), he wrote his magnum opus, Gita Rahasya, interpreting the Bhagavad Gita as a gospel of Karma Yoga (action) rather than renunciation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah appeared as his lawyer in the appeal against this conviction.

4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad & Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal (The Crescent) was unique because it used Urdu prose and Islamic theology to attack British imperialism and urge Muslims to join the freedom struggle, breaking away from the loyalist Aligarh tradition.
When the government confiscated the press of Al-Hilal in 1914, Azad started another journal, Al-Balagh, in 1915, which was also banned in 1916.
He became the youngest President of the INC at the Delhi Special Session in 1923 (at age 35).

5. Maulana Mohammad Ali & The Comrade
While The Comrade was his famous English weekly (launched in Calcutta, moved to Delhi), he also published an Urdu daily called Hamdard.
Along with his brother Shaukat Ali (the "Ali Brothers"), he was the prime mover of the Khilafat Movement.
At the First Round Table Conference (1930), he famously said, "I would prefer to die in a foreign country so long as it is a free country, and if you do not give us freedom in India, you will have to give me a grave here." (He died in London shortly after).