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TopicChandra Shekhar

Topic: Chandra Shekhar

Late PM Chandra Shekhar gave ‘Baaghi Ballia’ its identity, but BJP candidate son faces headwinds

Chandra Shekhar, Ballia MP for eight terms, is still remembered fondly here, but lagging development and anti-incumbency towards BJP pose a challenge for his son Neeraj.

How Chandra Shekhar govt and RBI hatched a plan to pledge India’s gold in 1991

In 'Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI', former governor C. Rangarajan gives a first-person account of India's economic crisis and history.

Remembering Chandra Shekhar, India’s 8th PM who was in office for just seven months

On Chandra Shekhar's 14th death anniversary, a look at the life and times of the former Prime Minister of India in pictures.

Chandra Shekhar had ‘solved’ Ayodhya issue. But ‘petty’ Rajiv Gandhi brought his govt down

In ‘Chandra Shekhar’, Roderick Matthews writes about how the former PM had threatened to shoot anyone who touched ‘that mosque’, and even if 500 sadhus died, they would go to heaven.

Who should’ve been the weakest, but turned out to be most decisive Indian prime minister?

Think of a man who was prime minister for just seven months, three of which were as the head of a caretaker government.

On Camera

Mohan Bhagwat’s U-turn on ‘retire at 75’ is a Hindu succession problem

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.