Indira Gandhi
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Indira knew of threat to life before Blue Star, writes Pranab Mukherjee
National | Jan 29, 2016, 12:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indira Gandhi knew her life was at risk when she decided to go for militarily storm the Golden Temple, President Pranab Mukherjee reveals in the second part of his memoirs released on Thursday."The
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Pranab Mukherjee recalls how Rajiv Gandhi was made PM after Indira's assassination
National | Jan 28, 2016, 01:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, in the second volume of his memoir 'The Turbulent Years: 1980-96', has talked about how Rajiv Gandhi was distressed and events unfolded after the news of Indira Gandhi's assassination was
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Indira Gandhi's rule was worse than British, says Bihar govt website
National | Jan 11, 2016, 07:57 PM ISTPatna: An article about former prime minister Indira Gandhi's rule, published on the official website of Bihar government, has left the Congress red-faced after it described her reign worst than British in India.The write-up, while
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Indira Gandhi waited to meet US president, not so with PM Narendra Modi: Minister
National | Jan 07, 2016, 11:54 PM ISTHyderabad: Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh today claimed while former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had to wait for meeting American President, today the White House incumbent himself comes out to greet Premier Narendra Modi when
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'Indira died and left me a 'zinda laash': Pranab Mukherjee told Ipsita
National | Nov 19, 2015, 05:32 PM ISTAfter Indira Gandhi's assassination, Pranab Mukherjee was expecting to become the next prime minister, says a book 'Beloved Witch Returns' authored Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. Ipsita is a renowned Wiccan priestess besides being a family friend
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Nation pays tribute to Indira Gandhi on her 31st death anniversary
National | Oct 31, 2015, 01:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: The nation today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 31st death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and other leaders paying tributes at her memorial here.Mukherjee, Congress President
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PM Modi pays tribute to Indira Gandhi on death anniversary
National | Oct 31, 2015, 01:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid paid tribute to the former prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary."Tributes to former Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi on her
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Rahul Gandhi's leadership credentials will be challenged: ML Fotedar
National | Oct 25, 2015, 04:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Rahul is a reluctant politician like his father Rajiv Gandhi and has his "limitations" as he has not been groomed for the job unlike his father whom Indira Gandhi herself groomed, says veteran
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Indira Gandhi 'predicted' the next century will be Priyanka's
National | Oct 21, 2015, 08:09 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indira Gandhi spoke of her granddaughter Priyanka as her virtual political heir shortly before her death, predicting that "she will shine and the next century will be hers".This has been revealed in the
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Emergency gave democratic credentials to RSS, Narendra Modi: Jairam Ramesh
National | Oct 20, 2015, 04:49 PM ISTHyderabad: Emergency "disastrously" gave "democratic credentials" to RSS by bringing it into the mainstream of Indian politics, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said, terming its imposition as a "wrong" move by the then Prime
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Remembering Jayaprakash Narayan on his 36th death anniversary
National | Oct 08, 2015, 11:49 AM ISTNew Delhi : Today is the 36th death anniversary of great freedom fighter and one of the most revered political leaders of independent India, Jayaprakash Narayan.Jayaprakash Narayan was born on 11 October, 1902 in Sitab
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Arun Jaitley blames 1971 mindset for lost opportunities of last decade
National | Oct 06, 2015, 10:57 AM ISTNew York : India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed the mindset of 1971 that believed in slogans and redistribution rather than growth and higher productivity for the lost opportunities of the last decade and said
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Indira Gandhi aide dismisses ex-IB chief's claim
National | Sep 24, 2015, 08:26 AM ISTNew Delhi: Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's close aide R K Dhawan has dismissed claims by former Intelligence Bureau chief T V Rajeswar that the RSS had supported Emergency."How could RSS say that they could
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RSS supported emergency, Congress protected Bhindrawale
National | Sep 22, 2015, 04:43 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief TV Rajeswar has claimed that the RSS had supported several measures taken by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency period.The ex-IB chief also claimed that the
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RSS had supported several of Emergency measures: Ex-IB chief
India | Sep 21, 2015, 11:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief T V Rajeswar has claimed that the RSS had supported several measures taken during the Emergency and the then chief of the organisation Balasaheb Deoras had tried to
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Indira Gandhi was a power crazy woman: Justice Markandey Katju
India | Sep 17, 2015, 09:25 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former justice of Supreme Court Markandey Katju, known for his distinctive take on the contemporary issues, has said that the discontinuation of Rajiv and Indira Gandhi stamps is a welcome move.Former chairman of
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Inland letters with image of Indira Gandhi may be discontinued
India | Sep 16, 2015, 04:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: Inland letters carrying the image of late Indira Gandhi may be discontinued, indications were available today, a day after it became known that stamps displaying her image as well as that of another
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Govt defends decision to discontinue stamps on Indira, Rajiv Gandhi
National | Sep 16, 2015, 05:13 PM ISTNew Delhi: The government today defended its decision to discontinue stamps of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi under the definitive series saying that postage stamps should honour leading lights of the nation
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Government discontinues stamps of Rajiv, Indira Gandhi
National | Sep 15, 2015, 08:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: Government has decided to discontinue stamps of former Prime Ministers, Rajiv and Indira Gandhi, under the new definitive theme of postal stamps.The NDA government has replaced Builders of Modern India theme, which included
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Government discontinues postal stamps featuring Indira and Rajiv
National | Sep 15, 2015, 09:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: In a move that is bound to create fresh political controversy, the government has discontinued stamps launched by the Department of Posts (DoP) in December 2008 dedicated to Congress party icons and former