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  Nation remembers Rajiv Gandhi on death anniversary

  Politics | May 21, 2016 12:06 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

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

  Politics | April 20, 2016 13:05 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.

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

  Politics | April 17, 2016 23:12 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

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

  Politics | April 15, 2016 15:14 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.’

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  Killing Rajiv Gandhi was biggest mistake: LTTE ideologue

  Politics | March 11, 2016 9:37 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’.

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

  India | March 08, 2016 13:14 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

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

  Politics | March 06, 2016 16:25 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"

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

  Politics | March 03, 2016 14:02 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

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

  India | March 03, 2016 7:24 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

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

  India | February 24, 2016 9:56 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

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  President blames Narasimha Rao, Rajiv Gandhi for Babri demolition

  Politics | January 29, 2016 11:27 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

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  Never desired to become Prime Minister: President Pranab Mukherjee

  Politics | January 28, 2016 20:59 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

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

  Politics | January 28, 2016 13:46 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

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  Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Nalini again moves HC

  India | December 15, 2015 8:53 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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  Tamil Nadu govt can not release Rajiv Gandhi's killers, rules SC

  India | December 02, 2015 11:19 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will stay in jail, overruling the decision of Tamil Nadu government to release the convicts of the high profile

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  Ban on Rushdie's book by Rajiv govt was wrong: Chidambaram

  Politics | November 28, 2015 23:38 IST

  New Delhi: Former Union Minister P Chidambaram today said that the ban on Salman Rushdie's controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses' in 1988 by the then Rajiv Gandhi government was "wrong"."I have no hesitation in saying

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  Rajiv Gandhi justified Sikh riots; take back Bharat Ratna: HS Phoolka

  India | November 19, 2015 23:56 IST

  New Delhi: Sikh riots' victims activist and AAP member H S Phoolka today caused a flutter by demanding that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi be stripped of Bharat Ratna award as he had “justified” the

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  'Indira died and left me a 'zinda laash': Pranab Mukherjee told Ipsita

  Politics | November 19, 2015 17:32 IST

  After Indira Gandhi's assassination, Pranab Mukherjee was expecting to become the next prime minister, says a book 'Beloved Witch Returns' authored Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. Ipsita is a renowned Wiccan priestess besides being a  family friend

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  Rajiv Gandhi backed Chandra Shekhar over Pranab Mukherjee as PM

  Politics | October 22, 2015 12:11 IST

  New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee was favoured by late President R Venkataraman to be the Prime Minister after the fall of VP Singh government in 1990 but Rajiv Gandhi thought otherwise.This has come to light in

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  Indira wanted Priyanka to emerge as her political legatee

  Politics | October 20, 2015 10:02 IST

  New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader ML Fotedar has claimed that former prime minister Indira Gandhi's had a feeling about her death just days before she was assassinated.Indira, he said, wanted her granddaughter Priyanka Gandhi to