Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher's resignation shocked US, Soviet Union: Secret file
World | Dec 30, 2016, 04:19 PM ISTA secret Downing Street file released on Friday has revealed that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s resignation had shocked both US and the Soviet Union
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Margaret Thatcher wanted to prosecute Sikh who incited Indira's killing
World | Jul 16, 2015, 06:04 PM ISTLondon: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to take legal action against a UK-based Sikh separatist leader accused of inciting Indira Gandhi's assassination but failed to comply with India's request to deport him due to
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Operation Bluestar: Britain's role 'very limited'
World | Feb 05, 2014, 10:02 AM ISTLondon: The British foreign secretary William Hague on Tuesday revealed that UK had a very limited role in the Amritsar massacre of 1984.Hague informed the British MPs that Margaret Thatcher did not play any role
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Indira Gandhi had asked Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka military, documents reveal
World | Jan 22, 2014, 10:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: Britain's Special Air Service officers were training Sri Lankan military during the separatist Tamil Elam movement in 1980s, documents declassified in the UK reveal. .The documents show former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi
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Thatcher refused to congratulate India on 1983 World Cup win
Cricket | Jan 17, 2014, 10:13 AM ISTLondon: The then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to send a congratulatory message to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi after Team India's World Cup win in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev.With the
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Thatcher's letter to Gandhi raises question of Britain's support after Operation Blue Star
World | Jan 16, 2014, 10:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: A report published by a UK newspaper says that the then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher had written a letter to her Indian counterpart Indira Gandhi after the Operation Blue Star took place.
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Dal Khalsa writes to Cameron over Thatcher link to Operation Bluestar
India | Jan 14, 2014, 05:36 PM ISTAmritsar: Radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa has written a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, expressing its pain, concern and anguish over the “revelations” that Margaret Thatcher's government might have helped Indira Gandhi plan
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Margaret Thatcher styled her hair 120 times in a single year: Secret files reveal all
World | Jan 07, 2014, 06:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: In the turbulent Seventies, the then Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee told the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the Lok Sabha: "Ma'am, you can fix your hair in five minutes, how
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Britain bids farewell to 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher
World | Apr 17, 2013, 05:44 PM ISTLondon, Apr 17: The funeral of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's only woman prime minister, was held Wednesday and was attended by Queen Elizabeth II, two heads of state and 11 prime ministers from across the world.Thatcher
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Know more about Margaret Thatcher-The Iron Lady
World | Mar 17, 2014, 06:43 AM ISTNew Delhi: 87 years old Margaret Thatcher-The Iron Lady of Britain passed away on 8th of April 2013 after having suffered a stroke. she ought to have been a feminist heroine. She was one of
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British, world leaders pay tributes to Margaret Thatcher
World | Apr 08, 2013, 10:36 PM ISTLondon/New Delhi : Britain's first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher may have divided opinion during her lifetime but her death here today has attracted a unanimous outpouring of tributes across party and political lines.Prime Minister
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Sex offender Jimmy Savile wrote intimate notes to Margaret Thatcher
World | Dec 28, 2012, 01:59 PM ISTLondon, Dec 28: Classified documents being made public Friday detail how now-disgraced BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile was comfortable at the heart of the British government during his heyday in the 1980s, lunching with Prime Minister
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The Significance Of February The 11Th
World | Feb 12, 2011, 02:40 PM ISTLondon, Feb 12 : February the eleventh is a significant date for Middle East's turbulent history, reports The Guardian.On February 11, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran after an Islamic revolution toppled the Shah
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Margaret Thatcher Named Most Influential Woman In The World
World | Nov 01, 2010, 10:33 PM ISTFormer prime minister Margaret Thatcher has won another landslide almost 20 years after losing power.She picked up almost a third of the votes (32%) in a survey to find the most influential woman in the