Rajiv Gandhi
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Sonia Gandhi and her family: A trip down the memory lane
National | Nov 24, 2012, 02:16 PM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 10: In last 65 years of independent India's history, if there is any one family which has played the most crucial role in deciding the destiny of this nation then it's Nehru-Gandhi
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CBI denies suppression of evidence by IB chief in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
India | Oct 30, 2012, 09:20 PM ISTChennai/New Delhi, Oct 30: The Central Bureau of Investigation today denied a media report quoting a former CBI officer has having said that a video showing Rajiv Gandhi's LTTE assassin Dhanu at the ill-fated Sriperumbudur
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Rajiv a rare politician, Rahul warned me of a shark-infested system, reveals Arvind Kejriwal
National | Oct 13, 2012, 09:01 AM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 13: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, presently carrying out a campaign against Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's business dealings, has in an interview to The Economic Times has said
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Open letter to Rajiv in 1988 was 'arrogant', admits Rushdie
World | Sep 19, 2012, 08:31 PM ISTLondon, 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 | Sep 23, 2012, 03:36 PM ISTNew 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 | Jul 04, 2012, 02:16 PM ISTNew 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, 07:12 PM ISTVellore (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, 05:32 PM ISTNew 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, 06:57 AM ISTHyderabad, 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 | Apr 26, 2012, 03:13 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 25, 2012, 05:54 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 25, 2012, 02:15 PM ISTNew 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 | Apr 15, 2012, 01:58 PM ISTIslamabad, 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 | Feb 01, 2012, 01:10 PM ISTKolkata, 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 | Dec 28, 2011, 04:20 PM ISTNew 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 | Sep 30, 2011, 10:17 PM ISTChennai, 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 | Aug 30, 2011, 12:08 PM ISTColombo, 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 | Aug 30, 2011, 10:29 PM ISTChennai, 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 | Aug 30, 2011, 10:57 AM ISTChennai,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 | Aug 28, 2011, 11:09 PM ISTChennai, 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