Morarji Desai, India's first non-Congress PM, was the only Indian who won the Bharat Ratna & Pakistan's highest civilian award — the Nishan-e-Pakistan.
India has about 20 strong state leaders, whose voters no national leader can take away. Even Modi & his oratory can’t swing a majority in more than 7 states.
At the same time, 71 per cent of all the female world leaders surveyed by a new study attained the highest office without any family connections to politics.
PM Modi urged voters in the country to think wisely on who they wanted to vote in the elections while accusing Congress of insulting institutions and curbing freedom of expression.
On his 30th death anniversary, ThePrint recalls the ever-changing politician who served in the Congress governments as minister but left the party twice.
Congress workers invoked her resemblance to grandmother Indira to welcome Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to Lucknow for her debut as Congress general secretary.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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