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  Open letter to Rajiv in 1988 was 'arrogant', admits Rushdie

  World | September 19, 2012 20:31 IST

  London, Sep 19: Twenty four years after he shot off an open letter to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi criticising the ban on ‘The Satanic Verses', India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie now admits that

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  Nation remembers Rajiv Gandhi on birth anniversary

  National | September 23, 2012 15:36 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 20: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today led the nation in paying rich tributes to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 68th birth anniversary.The senior leaders paid floral

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  Arjun Singh described Sharad Pawar as unreliable and fickle

  National | July 04, 2012 14:16 IST

  New Delhi, July 4:  Sharad Pawar is at the receiving end of late Congress veteran Arjun Singh who has accused him of being flip-flop, unreliable and fickle and wondered when the “final rupture” would take

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  Rajiv killers come out with flying colours in Class XII exams

  India | May 22, 2012 19:12 IST

  Vellore (TN), May 22: Perarivalan and Murugan, facing the gallows in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged at the high-security prison here, have cleared the Class XII state board exams with flying colours, scoring

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  Rajiv Gandhi remembered on death anniversary

  India | May 21, 2012 17:32 IST

  New Delhi, May 21:The nation today paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed in a suicide bomb attack on this day 21 years ago.President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and

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  Rajasthan Royals out of play-offs race after losing to Deccan

  Cricket | May 19, 2012 6:57 IST

  Hyderabad, May 19 : Spinner Amit Mishra and pacer Dale Steyn scalped two wickets each as Deccan Chargers knocked Rajasthan Royals out of the Indian Premier League by inflicting on them an upset five-wicket defeat

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  Uproar over Bofors, Congress rejects demand for fresh probe

  India | April 26, 2012 15:13 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 26: The Bofors issue today led to disruption in Lok Sabha with the BJP and Left parties demanding reopening of the graft case and a judicial probe into it.BJP members trooped into

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  BJP to raise Bofors, Congress says, no need to reopen case

  India | April 25, 2012 17:54 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 25: The ghost of Bofors returned to haunt the Congress party today with the BJP targeting it following fresh allegations that Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister may have soft-pedaled the probe into

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  Rajiv didn't take Bofors bribe, but Gandhi family may have protected Quattrochi, says Ex-Swedish police chief

  India | April 25, 2012 14:15 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 25:  Former Swedish Police chief Sten Lindstrom, who acted as the whistleblower in the infamous Bofors payoff case,  has said that there was no evidence to prove that former prime minister Rajiv

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  Pak Asks India To Implement 1989 Siachen Accord

  World | April 15, 2012 13:58 IST

  Islamabad, April 15: Pakistan has asked India to implement  the 1989 agreement between defence secretaries following back channel diplomacy between Rajiv Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto on resolving the Siachen dispute, reports Dawn. “A 1989 agreement

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  Rajiv Leader Of Hearts, Pranab Like Brother, Says Mamata In Her Autobiography

  India | February 01, 2012 13:10 IST

  Kolkata, Feb 1: Although she felt “betrayed” by the Congress leadership many a time, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee describes the late Rajiv Gandhi as “the leader of our hearts” and Pranab Mukherjee as

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  Rahul's Idea Fails Like Rajiv's Panchayati Raj Bill

  India | December 28, 2011 16:20 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 28: In a strange coincidence, Rahul Gandhi's idea of conferring Constitutional status on Lokpal failed in the Lok Sabha much like his father Rajiv Gandhi's Panchayati Raj Bill 22 years ago.A BJP

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  Pass Resolution For Clemency To Rajiv Case Convicts, Says Karunanidhi

  National | September 30, 2011 22:17 IST

  Chennai, Sep 30: Continuing to plead for three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today asked the state cabinet to pass a resolution to press for clemency for

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  Lankan Tamil MP Writes To Patil Over Rajiv Killers' Hanging

  India | August 30, 2011 12:08 IST

  Colombo, Aug 30 : A Sri Lankan lawmaker representing the main Tamil party TNA, has written to President Pratibha Patil pleading for clemency for Rajiv Gandhi's killers, who are to be hanged on September 9.The

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  Rajiv Gandhi Killers Get 8-Week Reprieve From Hangman's Noose

  India | August 30, 2011 22:29 IST

  Chennai, Aug 30: In a major legal reprieve to the three Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts, Madras High Court today stayed for eight weeks their execution fixed for September 9 even as the Tamil Nadu

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  Rajiv Would Have Saved Death Row Convicts, Says Karunanidhi

  India | August 30, 2011 10:57 IST

  Chennai,Aug 29:  After appealing to Congress President Sonia Gandhi to save the lives of three convicts facing death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said that “young noble man”

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  Woman Torches Herself To Save Rajiv Killers

  India | August 28, 2011 23:09 IST

  Chennai, August 28:   A woman in Kanchipuram on Sunday set herself on fire to press for her demand to commute the death sentence of rajiv Gandhi's killers. All three convicts will be hanged on

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  Rajiv's Assassins To Be Hanged, Prez Rejects Clemency Pleas

  India | August 11, 2011 22:44 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 11: Three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on death row will be hanged after their clemency petitions were rejected by President Pratibha Patil.The death sentences of the three men—Murugan, Santhan

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  Making Rahul As PM Is Congress' Prerogative, Says Mamata

  India | June 21, 2011 20:16 IST

  New Delhi, June 21:  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said it is the Congress' prerogative to decide whether Rahul Gandhi should be made the Prime Minister.“I love this (Gandhi) family. I had good relations

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  President Clears Execution Of 2 Death Row Convicts

  India | May 26, 2011 21:30 IST

  New Delhi, May 26: After seven years, the go-ahead has been given for execution of two murder convicts that could start the process of clearing the long list of death row convicts, including Afzal Guru