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Topic1975 Emergency

Topic: 1975 Emergency

India’s lofty aviation ambitions interrupted & the 1975 Emergency, when a ‘young democracy froze’

Global media also reports on Adani Group’s move to ‘press ahead’ with its investment deals and ‘shrug off’ impact of US criminal charges.

Why BJP Haryana dropped Bansi Lal’s kin, Kiran & Shruti Choudhry, from its Emergency ‘Black Day’ rallies

Bansi Lal, a trusted ally of Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi, was the face of the Emergency in Haryana. Kiran & Shruti Choudhry joined BJP from Congress before 2024 Assembly polls.

The phone call that changed everything. IAS officer recalls midnight imposition of Emergency in 1975

Serving as ADM in Delhi during that time, Prodipto Ghosh recounts how detention orders were issued under MISA during the Emergency.

When the Cabinet approved Emergency—after it had been proclaimed

‘Saving India from Indira’, memoirs of JP Goyal edited by Rama Goyal, gives a blow-by-blow account of the events leading up to the 1975 Emergency.

How move to mark 50th Emergency anniversary as ‘Black Day’ has exposed cracks in Haryana Gurdwara panel

HSGMC president Jagdish Singh Jhinda defends the decision, framing it as a tribute to Sikh values of resistance, but Akal Panthak Morcha members cry foul.

Emergency fiction isn’t neat & tidy. Midnight’s Children, A Fine Balance reveal many truths

Salman Rushdie’s allegorical 'Midnight’s Children', Rohinton Mistry’s unflinching 'A Fine Balance', and Nirmal Verma’s haunting 'Raat ka Reporter', emerged as acts of remembrance and resistance.

BJP-led NDA outlines game plan at key meet—Op Sindoor, caste census, Emergency & best practices

Bottom line of conclave of NDA CMs, dy CMs was to outline strategy to capitalise on Op Sindoor and Centre’s endorsement of caste census to consolidate core voters, it is learnt.

Pensions for Emergency prisoners? These are the 12 state govts doing it

"Emergency was the second freedom struggle," said Rajendra Dhingra, who founded Delhi’s Loktantra Senani Sangh.

SubscriberWrites: Safeguarding personal liberty in digital India in the shadow of ADM Jabalpur

The 1976 ADM Jabalpur case, a dark moment in India’s judicial history, reminds us of the enduring need to balance state power and personal freedom as digital surveillance challenges grow.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.