Pratibha Patil
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Pratibha Patil, India's first woman President, backs Women's Reservation Law; writes to PM Modi
India | Apr 15, 2026, 11:29 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped up efforts to bring in the Women’s Reservation Act, calling it an important reform for women’s representation in legislative bodies. He recently wrote a letter to Nari Shakti stressing the need for quick action on the long-awaited measure.
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PM Modi seeks blessings of former President Pratibha Patil, ex-PMs Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda
India | Jun 10, 2024, 08:55 PM ISTShortly before meeting Patil, Singh and Gowda, the Modi government 3.0 announced the portfolios of Cabinet ministers who took oath on Sunday. Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, S Jaishankar and Nirmala Sitharaman retained the top four ministries of Home, Defence, External Affairs and FInance respectively.
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Former President Pratibha Patil hospitalised in Pune, condition stable
India | Mar 14, 2024, 08:52 AM ISTPratibha Patil was the first woman to serve as the President of India. She held the top constitutional post from 2007 to 2012.
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Former President Pratibha Patil's husband Dr Devisingh Shekhawat passes away
India | Feb 24, 2023, 02:27 PM ISTDevisingh Shekhawat death: He was 88-year-old and breathed his last at the KEM Hospital. He is survived by his ex-President wife, a son Rajendra Singh Shekhawat, who is a Congress leader, and a daughter Jyoti Rathod.
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Ex-President Pratibha Patil conferred Mexico's highest civilian honour
India | Jun 01, 2019, 08:45 PM ISTFormer President Patil is only the second Indian head of state to get this award.
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President Pranab rejects 92% of mercy petitions, highest by any Prez
India | Aug 06, 2015, 03:06 PM ISTThe rejection of Yakub Memon's mercy plea by President Pranab Mukherjee has once again brought the issue of mercy petitions to the limelight. While some presidents were kinder, others were not. However, there is no consistency
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Pratibha Patil denies Gen Singh's claim on quitting
India | Nov 08, 2013, 08:27 PM ISTNashik: Contradicting his claim, former President Pratibha Patil today denied that she had advised the then Army Chief Gen V K Singh not to resign over the age controversy.She said she had told him that
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Not a single flight goes to Jalgaon airport, inaugurated hurriedly by then President Pratibha Patil
India | May 18, 2013, 03:48 PM ISTJalgaon (Maharashtra), May 18: The then President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the fag end of her tenure, hurriedly inaugurated an airport in her home district Jalgaon, but airline carriers are showing scant interest in flying
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Seychelles' invitation to Pratibha Patil shredded, burnt
India | Jan 07, 2013, 05:57 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 7 : Pratibha Patil, who had undertaken a number of foreign trips as President, visited Seychelles for which invitation came as a telegram.The invitation was received by Central Cipher Bureau and the
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Rashtrapati Bhawan asks for return of gifts taken by private family trust of Pratibha Patil
National | Sep 25, 2012, 12:55 PM ISTNew delhi, Sep 25: The President's Secretariat has taken steps to recover return gifts received by former President Pratibha Patil in her official capacity as President of India, says RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal. A
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Pawar, Patel skip PM's dinner
National | Jul 24, 2012, 10:38 AM ISTNew Delhi, July 24 :Sulking NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday skipped the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the honour of outgoing President Pratibha Patil.Besides the Agriculture Minister, his party colleague and
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Diesel price hike after Presidential elections
India | Jul 12, 2012, 10:58 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 12 : Diesel prices may be hiked after Presidential elections on July 19 as the Government plans to take bold measures to rein in run-away fiscal deficit. “Price increase is inevitable. But
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Leaving with a sense of satisfaction: President Patil
National | Jul 12, 2012, 04:46 PM ISTNew Delhi, July 12: Thirteen days before her tenure comes to an end, Pratibha Patil today looked back on her five years as President with a sense of satisfaction, dismissing as “ill-informed” the criticism of
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I am ready to talk to Mamata when she is ready for it: Pranab
National | Jul 12, 2012, 08:22 PM ISTKolkata, Jul 9: UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee today said he will talk to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to seek support for his candidature when she is ready to talk to him.“I am ready
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President defends clemency decisions
India | Jun 25, 2012, 08:23 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 25: The Rashtrapati Bhavan today defended its granting mercy to some death row convicts saying the power to pardon is not a private act of grace by the President but a part
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Post-retirement residence for Patil finalised in Pune
National | Jun 24, 2012, 01:44 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 24: A post-retirement residence for President Pratibha Patil has been finalised in Pune by the government, after she had to give up an accommodation following a controversy.Officials said that the bungalow which
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President pardons a death row convict who died 5 years ago
India | Jun 23, 2012, 06:51 PM ISTBelgaum, Karnataka, June 23 : President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of a death row convict Bandu Tidke, who, it now appears, died five years ago in prison. Tidke was 31 years old
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Pratibha Patil commuted death sentence of 35 people
India | Jun 22, 2012, 09:31 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 22: President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 35 people to life imprisonment, the highest by the country's any head of state in three decades.However, the first woman President of
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President says, Army Chief, govt standoff should not have happened
India | Apr 29, 2012, 10:19 AM ISTNew Delhi, April 29: Outgoing president Pratibha Patil, in an interview to The Indian Express, has said that the recent standoff between Army Chief Gen V K Singh and the government could have been handled
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Prez Poll Expected To Go Down To The Wire
National | Apr 01, 2012, 04:37 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 1: With the recent ganging up of regional parties on common issues, the coming Presidential election appears set to go down to the wire unless the ruling UPA manages to evolve a