NZ media reveals identity of drug racket mastermind a year after he was sentenced to 22 years in jail for importing large quantities of methamphetamine.
On 20 June 1968, PM Indira Gandhi delivered a speech in Srinagar warning against communalism, regionalism, and inequality as threats to national integration.
During Indira’s time, Youth Congress was a ‘safety valve’ against growing popular dissent. Sanjay then turned it into feeder cadre for Congress. It’s now struggling to rebrand itself.
On 26 January 1966, Indira Gandhi delivered a speech that was broadcast over All India Radio. This was her first address to the nation after becoming India’s first woman prime minister.
Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.
Haryana notifies law to take over Dhirendra Brahmachari’s Gurugram ashram. Branded Indira Gandhi’s ‘Rasputin’ by opposition, he remains one of most controversial spiritual figures.
Over the years, many recipients have been leaders who can be placed in the Centre-Left category, but not all. For instance, in 1997, it was awarded to former US President Jimmy Carter.
The ex-Chilean president was awarded the 2024 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for her work on gender equality, human rights, and democracy.
Bachelet, only woman to have served as the President of Chile, is the 37th recipient Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award, which was instituted in 1986.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
The strange logic of “electoral victory omits past mistakes” is a uniquely amnesiac Congress way of handling politics. If returning to power in 1980 absolves the guilt of emergency, then the current government should also be forgiven for all its past misdemeanours before 2024. The fact is that the Congress was a avaricious, arrogant, unscrupulous and power crazy hegemon in its heyday. The current government is following its footsteps with the zeal of the convert. India is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The strange logic of “electoral victory omits past mistakes” is a uniquely amnesiac Congress way of handling politics. If returning to power in 1980 absolves the guilt of emergency, then the current government should also be forgiven for all its past misdemeanours before 2024. The fact is that the Congress was a avaricious, arrogant, unscrupulous and power crazy hegemon in its heyday. The current government is following its footsteps with the zeal of the convert. India is stuck between a rock and a hard place.