The document discussed the prospects of India in the mid-1980s and looked into various political scenarios, including re-election of Indira Gandhi in the 1985 general election with a slim majority
Known for his terrific fitness levels not only in India but worldwide, Sardar was included in the 18-man FIH All Star team in 2010 and 2011.
Rajiv Gandhi was killed in a suicide attack by a LTTE activist during an election rally in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991.
In an emotionally charged letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami, Robert said that he should be killed on grounds of mercy and his body should be handed over to his family.
Suspected to have played a role in Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Chandraswami wielded enormous power during the regime of PV Narasimha Rao.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi along with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 26th death anniversary.
Senior politician Arif Mohammad Khan today said that in 1986, the then Congress government headed by Rajiv Gandhi had struck a deal with Muslim leaders for the "shilanyas" (groundbreaking) of the Ram Janambhoomi temple in Ayodhya.
Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today said that the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was the only good human being in the (Nehru-Gandhi) family and said he had contributed to the awakening of the Hindus.
The Congress today strongly criticised the Narendra Modi government for removing the name of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi from Sadbhavna Diwas programmes.
Soviets pumped huge amounts of cash in India to influence policies during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government as well as under Rajiv Gandhi rule, CIA documents reveal.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had prepared a detailed and a thorough “brief” on Rajiv Gandhi assassination five years before it took place in 1991, citing what would happen if he is killed or
Sweden inconclusively brought the curtains down on the probe into the Bofors scandal to prevent embarrassment to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a confidential CIA assessment which was declassified in December 2016 has revealed.
Despite his initial reluctance to pursue his mother Indira Gandhi’s push for nuclear programme, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 gave his nod for making preparations to test a hydrogen bomb in response to Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni, the former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt in 1987, has been accused of making an astrological prediction about the death of President Maithripala Sirisena by
MJ Akbar, the current MoS for External Affairs in the BJP-led NDA government, had played a key role in the decision of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s to oppose the Supreme Court’s Shah Bano judgement in 1985.
AG Perarivalan alias Arivu, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was on Tuesday attacked by a fellow convict in the Vellore jail.
As the Congress party observed Rajiv Gandhi's 72nd birth anniversary today, the party’s West Bengal unit committed a huge faux pas while tweeting about the day.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahattaya, who was once a deputy to the outfit’s supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, was a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent, a new book has claimed.
A senior member of the separatist Khalistani movement based in Britain had “predicted” the death of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi months before she was gunned down by her bodyguards, newly declassified documents by
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