BRAMPTON (IANS) – A tableau depicting former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination by Sikh bodyguards was showcased in a parade in Canada’s Punjabi-dominated Brampton. The tableau ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt becoming one of ...

At midnight on June 25 in 1975, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of Emergency across India. The 21-month period from June 25, 1975, to March 21, 1977, saw the Indira regime ...

At midnight on 25 June 1975, India - a young democracy and the world's largest - froze. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency.

Bhargava, 54 at the time, recalls the decision to take Gandhi to the operating theatre even though there was no pulse. 'Blood was being pumped into her, but it was a losing battle. She was losing ...

The author of this book was born in 1977, the year the 20-month Emergency, imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975, was lifted. After his graduation he served in the Indian army for seven years ...

On the occasion of its 50th award, the Commission for the Florence Nightingale Medal wishes to pay homage to the outstanding devotion of those we have lost. The recipients were nominated by their ...

Indira Gandhi rewrote the map of the subcontinent, but the circumstances were different. Bangladesh was fighting a moral cause, and liberating Bangladesh was a clear objective.

In a pointed criticism, citing former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s defiance of US pressure during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a letter written by her to then US ...

Gayatri Devi's imprisonment was only the beginning of a larger plan by the Indira Gandhi regime to hunt for a fabled Mughal-era treasure at the Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur during the 1975 Emergency.

When Indira Gandhi governed India between the 1960s and the 1980s, she was rarely depicted directly in films. If the prime minster was seen, it was mostly as a photograph or portrait in a ...

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, into a Kashmiri Hindu family. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, and Kamala Nehru ...