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Topic: Lal Bahadur Shastri

Tashkent Files answers where Right-wing Twitter warrior Vivek Agnihotri is going next

After abusing liberals as part of his ‘urban Naxal’ project and filling young minds with propaganda, Vivek Agnihotri returns with an effective thriller.

Vivek Agnihotri’s Tashkent Files adds confusion to many conspiracies over Shastri’s death

Characters and plot lines aren’t sketched out well in Tashkent Files, and seem to appear out of thin air, just like ‘facts’ about Shastri’s death.

Jinnah felt Pakistani & Indian soldiers would fight side by side against invaders

Journalist Kuldip Nayar recounts Lal Bahadur Shastri saying Kashmir may have had a different fate if what Jinnah believed had come true.

PM Modi modifies Shastri’s ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ slogan to include ‘Jai Anusandhan’

Referring to the scientific progress in the country, Prime Minister Modi said that it was through science that India was transforming its present and securing its future.

India’s original surgical strike: How the Haji Pir pass was captured in 1965

Here’s an extract from the book War Despatches by the late Lt Gen. Harbakhsh Singh, who led the Western Command in the 1965 war.

Congress caught napping as BJP & AAP pay tribute to former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri

BJP and AAP take out ads lauding Lal Bahadur Shastri, India's second PM. BJP beats Congress to acknowledging Shastri even on social media.

Ambassador not Cadillac: How Lal Bahadur Shastri defied Nehru’s tradition

On Lal Bahadur Shastri’s birth anniversary, his son Anil recalls rare personal and political anecdotes.

It’s duty of Central govt to explain how PM Lal Bahadur Shastri died: Information panel

Information commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu says people’s right to know ‘truth’ behind Shastri’s death cannot be brushed aside citing secrecy clause.

Vajpayee to be cremated at Delhi’s Smriti Sthal Friday afternoon, PMO takes over arrangements

Authorities have been asked to make preparations for a procession of up to 20 lakh people, given the former PM’s popularity.

A political dynasty that no one talks about, but it spans three generations & four parties

Former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s sons have served as ministers at the central and state levels, and now his grandsons too are building their own political legacy.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.