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Topic: Jaswant Singh

Jaswant Singh kept bullets from IC814 in his office. With a sign that read ‘Lest we forget’

Every day of the hijacking, my father was woken up at midnight by a call from wife of a crew member. He’d sit on the bed, listening to her crying every night.

NDA govt isn’t the villain of IC 814 hijack. Jaswant Singh promised to keep hostages safe

During the hijack, relatives of the hostages were pushing the government to give in to terrorists' demands. They even wanted to trade Kashmir.

Lost patience with Congress, state sharks thwart changes Rahul wants — Manvendra Singh on joining BJP

Jaswant Singh’s son rejoined BJP this month terming it a ‘family decision’, says he felt ‘alone’ in Congress & Rahul Gandhi’s vision is not finding traction with ‘local sharks’.

A decade after expelling Jaswant Singh, why BJP suddenly remembers former minister as its own

His son Manvendra is said to be weighing options about returning from Congress to BJP. Jaswant was expelled for contesting as Independent from Barmer parliamentary seat in 2014.

To understand Vajpayee’s economic worldview, look at his first choice for finance minister

In ‘Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India’, Shakti Sinha writes that Vajpayee was a difficult PM to understand, but his reforms spoke for him.

Jaswant Singh — communicator, crisis manager, man of letters and a student of history

Jaswant Singh, a former Army officer, served as external affairs, defence and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's governments from 1998 to 2004.

Former Union minister Jaswant Singh dies at 82, PM Modi tweets condolence

Jaswant Singh, a BJP leader, had served as the external affairs and finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government.

Pranab Mukherjee & Jaswant Singh, in the same hospital, suffered eerily similar medical crisis

Former President Pranab Mukherjee and former defence minister Jaswant Singh are both at Army Research and Referral Hospital. Both suffered similar accidents, six years apart.

Why Vajpayee govt chose to swap 3 terrorists with 160 passengers of IC 814 two decades ago

For 55 minutes, when it seemed that the hijacked plane could land in Amritsar, the crisis management group in Delhi acted without urgency.

‘Hijack baby’: How IC 814 Kandahar tragedy shaped Jaswant Singh grand-daughter’s life

After listening to people’s views for years, I now wish to ask my grandfather Jaswant Singh about his personal experience of the Kandahar hijack episode.

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‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.