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TopicIndira Gandhi assassination

Topic: Indira Gandhi assassination

Doctors failed to embalm Indira Gandhi’s corpse. Only face was saved, says ex-AIIMS director

In 'The Woman Who Ran AIIMS', Sneh Bhargava offers a frank and candid memoir, which is also the story of the medical profession in post-Independence India.

First woman chief of AIIMS is ready to speak of Indira Gandhi, VIP culture & anti-Sikh riots

Sneh Bhargava took over as AIIMS director the day Indira Gandhi was assassinated. At 95, she’s released her memoir, still wears heels, and recounts being asked, “How will a woman run AIIMS?”

‘Promoting violence never acceptable’ — Canadian envoy on Indira Gandhi assassination float at parade

Tableau appeared at a protest parade by Sikh separatists in Brampton. India-Canada ties remain strained in the wake of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing.

Indira assassin Beant Singh’s son contesting from Faridkot, says ‘shaheed’s stature above entertainers’

Sarabjit Singh Khalsa says people of Faridkot wanted a 'serious' candidate. He'll face BJP candidate singer-turned-politician Hans Raj Hans & AAP's actor-comedian Karamjit Anmol.

Nephew of Indira Gandhi’s assassin Satwant Singh arrested over drug peddling charges in New Zealand

Baltej Singh's arrest comes a month after the Auckland Police had raided a small warehouse in Manukau, where it found 'multiple pallets of beer cans' allegedly laced with methamphetamine.

Indira Gandhi’s assassination was a turning point for photojournalists. It made them prime targets

In 'That which is unseen', photojournalist Prashant Panjiar compiles stories from three decades of covering India's most important events.

BJP alleges Khalistani agenda behind farmer protests, says Congress playing with fire

BJP IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted a purported video of protesting farmers where a man is heard citing PM Indira Gandhi’s assassination in an apparent bid to threaten PM Modi.

4 convicts to be hanged tomorrow but India doesn’t know how many sent to gallows until now

No accurate records are available and very little data is available in public domain on the number of convicts who have been hanged in independent India.

Delhi Court orders day-to-day hearing in a death sentence case of 1984 riots

Delhi High Court will also hear the convict Yashpal Singh's appeal against the capital punishment awarded to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Supreme Court grants 2 months to SIT to complete probe of 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases

The riots after Indira Gandhi's assassination claimed 2,733 lives in Delhi alone.

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.