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When Rajiv Gandhi's chat with in-laws gave officer nervous moments

National | May 26, 2016, 07:59 AM IST

New Delhi: In the early 1980s, when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister, her son Rajiv Gandhi was once so engrossed in explaining to his parents-in-law the features of a new navy ship that he

Neither pro-BJP nor anti-Congress: Rishi Kapoor clarifies why he tweeted against Gandhi family

Bollywood | May 21, 2016, 04:24 PM IST

New Delhi: Actor Rishi Kapoor sparked a new controversy earlier this week when he tweeted that national assets which are named after the Gandhi family should be renamed. With a scathing tweet which had words,

Insenstivity at its worst! When technology took centrestage at Rajiv Gandhi’s 25th death anniversary

National | May 21, 2016, 02:36 PM IST

New Delhi: India’s sixth Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, largely credited with bringing a technological wave in India in the form of the computer, would never had realised that its influx and rampant spread would render

Nation remembers Rajiv Gandhi on death anniversary

National | May 21, 2016, 12:06 PM IST

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was today remembered on his 25th death anniversary, with several leaders paying homage at his memorial here. President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, the late leader’s wife

Centre yet to decide on Tamil Nadu govt plea to free Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

National | Apr 20, 2016, 01:05 PM IST

The Narendra Modi government has turned down Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to free seven killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. This is the second time in 2 years that the proposal has been rejected by the Centre.

Subramanian Swamy hails Rajiv Gandhi for 'noble efforts' to resolve Ayodhya tangle

National | Apr 17, 2016, 11:12 PM IST

Mumbai: He is a fierce critic of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the man behind their legal troubles, but BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today hailed Rajiv Gandhi for his “noble efforts” to resolve the Ayodhya dispute

Rahul Gandhi lacks ‘heart’ although his father Rajiv was a lovable person with a ‘big heart’: Hansraj Bhardwaj

National | Apr 15, 2016, 03:14 PM IST

Hansraj Bhardwaj today slammed his own party leader Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress vice-president has no heart although his father and former prime minister ‘Rajiv Gandhi was a very lovable person with a big heart.’

Killing Rajiv Gandhi was biggest mistake: LTTE ideologue

National | Mar 11, 2016, 09:37 AM IST

A new book quotes the late LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham as saying that ‘assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was the Tamil Tigers' biggest mistake’.

HC grants 24-hour parole to Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini to attend father's rites

India | Mar 08, 2016, 01:14 PM IST

Chennai :Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was on Tuesday granted one-day parole by the Madras High Court for attending the 16th day obsequies of her father, who died last

Arun Jaitley attacks Rahul for sympathising with those who want to "break India"

National | Mar 06, 2016, 04:25 PM IST

Vrindavan: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing "sympathies" for "those who raised slogans for breaking up India" and said it was the Congress vice president's "ideological hollowness"

Let Centre take a call on TN govt's move to free Rajiv Gandhi's killers: Rahul

National | Mar 03, 2016, 02:02 PM IST

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said that it is for the Central government to decide on Tamil Nadu government's move to free the seven assassins of former prime minister and his father

TN govt ready to free Rajiv Gandhi killers, seeks Centre's opinion

India | Mar 03, 2016, 07:24 AM IST

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday said that it has decided to remit the life imprisonment sentence of all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and release them.The state government, in

Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict gets parole to attend father's funeral

India | Feb 24, 2016, 09:56 AM IST

New Delhi: Nalini Sriharan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was today granted a 12-hour parole to attend the last rites of her father."She has been granted a 12-hour parole and will return

President blames Narasimha Rao, Rajiv Gandhi for Babri demolition

National | Jan 29, 2016, 11:27 AM IST

New Delhi: Calling it an act that destroyed India's image as a pluralistic nation, President Pranab Mukherjee, in the second part of his memoirs 'The Turbulent Years, 1980-1996', has written that the 'inability to prevent

Never desired to become Prime Minister: President Pranab Mukherjee

National | Jan 28, 2016, 08:59 PM IST

New Delhi: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, at the launch of the second volume of his memoir, The Turbulent Years: 1980-96, retorted to the long-standing theory about his aspiration to become interim Prime Minister after Indira

Pranab Mukherjee recalls how Rajiv Gandhi was made PM after Indira's assassination

National | Jan 28, 2016, 01:46 PM IST

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, in the second volume of his memoir 'The Turbulent Years: 1980-96', has talked about how Rajiv Gandhi was distressed and events unfolded after the news of Indira Gandhi's assassination was

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Nalini again moves HC

India | Dec 15, 2015, 08:53 AM IST

Chennai: Nalini Sriharan, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, yesterday again moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu government to consider her representation for premature release.Nalini, now confined

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