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  Congress mouthpiece row: BJP grabs opportunity, says truth hidden has come out

  National | December 29, 2015 9:32 IST

  New Delhi: The Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) took a dig at the Congress for the criticism of Jawaharlal Nehru and party president Sonia Gandhi in its in-house publication 'Congress Darshan'.Speaking to media, senior party leader

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  Congress mouthpiece blames Nehru for Kashmir conflict

  National | December 28, 2015 11:37 IST

  Mumbai: As the Congress celebrates its 131st Foundation Day today, an article published in its mouthpiece, Congress Darshan, has caused a stir as it blames former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the state of affairs

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  Nation remembers Nehru on 126th birth anniversary

  National | November 14, 2015 12:20 IST

  New Delhi: The nation today fondly remembered the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 126th birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari leading the country in paying homage to

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  Congress holds conventions to mark Jawaharlal Nehru's birth anniversary

  National | November 07, 2015 21:37 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi unit of Congress today held conventions as part of its celebrations to mark 125th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.The conventions were held by party's Najafgarh and Kirari district

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  Attempts made to negate role of Jawaharlal Nehru: Irfan Habib

  India | November 06, 2015 19:16 IST

  New Delhi: Eminent historian Irfan Habib today took a dig at detractors of Jawaharlal Nehru saying people whose ideological ancestors had no role in the national movement are trying to negate the role and contribution

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  Future conflicts will need more integrated approach: President

  India | November 04, 2015 19:13 IST

  New Delhi: Future conflicts will require a more integrated multi-state and multi-agency approach as the security of a nation is no longer confined to preserving territorial integrity but encompasses economic, energy and food security, President

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  Jawaharlal Nehru let north-east down during 1962 China war: Kiren Rijiju

  National | October 31, 2015 21:27 IST

  Hyderabad: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today attacked country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of "letting people of north-east region down" during the 1962 Indo-China war, while accusing the Congress of "forgetting" the "true heroes" Subhash

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  Nehru's message of peaceful coexistence eternal: Pranab Mukherjee

  India | October 16, 2015 14:50 IST

  On Board President's Special Flight: Jawaharlal Nehru's message of peaceful coexistence has eternal relevance and is not "bound in a timeframe," President Pranab Mukherjee said in remarks coming in the backdrop of questions being raised

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  Jawaharlal Nehru sought US assistance during 1962 Indo-China war: Book

  World | October 14, 2015 17:38 IST

  Washington: Former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought American assistance and wrote to the then US president John F Kennedy to provide India jet fighters to stem the Chinese tide of aggression during the 1962

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  Nehru's niece Nayantara Sahgal returns Sahitya Akademi Award

  India | October 06, 2015 23:36 IST

  New Delhi: Eminent author and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sehgal on Tuesday returned the Sahitya Akademi award in protest against increasing intolerance towards right to dissent in the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's

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  Subramanian Swamy calls Nehru 'third class pass', terms JNU students, professors as 'naxals'

  National | September 26, 2015 14:51 IST

  New Delhi: In a statement that may stoke fresh controversy, BJP's firebrand leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday called India's first prime minister Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru a 'third class pass'Speaking to media, Swamy said, “We

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  JNU students union poll records 53.3 percent turnout

  India | September 11, 2015 23:17 IST

  New Delhi: The students union election at Jawaharlal Nehru University here on Friday recorded 53.3 percent turnout, a marginal dip from last year.Last year, the voters' turnout was 54.58 percent.The voting in the university was

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  No president was ever loved so much like Abdul Kalam: Pranab Mukherjee

  National | July 29, 2015 23:21 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has said no president was ever loved so much like A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was and the "people's president's" demise overwhelmed him with a sense of tremendous loss."No president was ever

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  Wikipedia pages on Nehru family edited from NIC IP?

  National | July 01, 2015 23:54 IST

  New Delhi: The edits on the Wikipedia page of country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his forefathers on June 26 that said his grandfather Gangadhar Nehru was a Muslim, originated from a government of

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  Jawaharlal Nehru didn't want Rajendra Prasad as president: Book

  India | June 24, 2015 17:44 IST

  New Delhi:  Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, lied to stop Rajendra Prasad from becoming the president after the country's independence, a new book claims.The book, written by former intelligence officer R.N.P. Singh, says: "Nehru

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  It was 'yoga' that made Nehru PM instead of Sardar Patel: Swami Ramdev

  National | June 20, 2015 13:25 IST

  New Delhi:  If Baba Ramdev is to be believed then Jawaharlal Nehru managed to become first Prime Minister of India leaving behind Sardar Patel in the PM race because he was a practitioner of Yoga.In

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  CIC Vijai Sharma favours relook at declassification policy

  India | June 14, 2015 16:46 IST

  New Delhi:  Amid the growing chorus for declassification of Netaji files, the new Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma today said the policy in such matters needed to be revisited so that more information about historical

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  BJP never commented on Nehru's clothes: Shahnawaz Hussain

  National | May 30, 2015 20:36 IST

  New Delhi: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi over his "suit-boot ki sarkar" jibe, BJP on Saturday said such criticism shows that Congress has become "direction-less" even as it claimed that it had never commented on

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  10 rare photos of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life | May 27, 2015 13:15 IST

  Today is the 51st death anniversary of the architect of modern independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru who was the foremost and one of the most influential leaders of India's freedom struggle.A close associate of Mahatma Gandhi,

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  64 files on Subhash Chandra Bose kept in Kolkata's 'secret cell'

  India | April 17, 2015 18:18 IST

  Kolkata: The alleged snooping of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose and his relatives by the erstwhile Nehru regime has sparked a series of revelations and the demand for declassifying the 'secret files' related with Netaji is