Sweden inconclusively brought the curtains down on the probe into the Bofors scandal to prevent embarrassment to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a confidential CIA assessment which was declassified in December 2016 has revealed.
Despite his initial reluctance to pursue his mother Indira Gandhi’s push for nuclear programme, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 gave his nod for making preparations to test a hydrogen bomb in response to Pakistan’s nuclear programme.
Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni, the former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt in 1987, has been accused of making an astrological prediction about the death of President Maithripala Sirisena by
MJ Akbar, the current MoS for External Affairs in the BJP-led NDA government, had played a key role in the decision of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s to oppose the Supreme Court’s Shah Bano judgement in 1985.
AG Perarivalan alias Arivu, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was on Tuesday attacked by a fellow convict in the Vellore jail.
As the Congress party observed Rajiv Gandhi's 72nd birth anniversary today, the party’s West Bengal unit committed a huge faux pas while tweeting about the day.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahattaya, who was once a deputy to the outfit’s supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, was a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent, a new book has claimed.
A senior member of the separatist Khalistani movement based in Britain had “predicted” the death of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi months before she was gunned down by her bodyguards, newly declassified documents by
Madurai: Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Ravichandran underwent medical tests at a government hospital here as per the orders of Madras High Court. Ravichandran, admitted to the Government Rajaji Hospital yesterday, underwent various medical
From Nehru to Modi, let's take a look take at the highlights and the context under which all the 6 Indian Prime Ministers addressed the US Congress.
BJP-led Maharashtra government today decided to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana, a scheme for cashless treatment for the poor, after social reformer Mahatma Phule, drawing flak from Congress.
New Delhi: In the early 1980s, when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister, her son Rajiv Gandhi was once so engrossed in explaining to his parents-in-law the features of a new navy ship that he
New Delhi: Actor Rishi Kapoor sparked a new controversy earlier this week when he tweeted that national assets which are named after the Gandhi family should be renamed. With a scathing tweet which had words,
New Delhi: India’s sixth Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, largely credited with bringing a technological wave in India in the form of the computer, would never had realised that its influx and rampant spread would render
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was today remembered on his 25th death anniversary, with several leaders paying homage at his memorial here. President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, the late leader’s wife
The Narendra Modi government has turned down Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to free seven killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. This is the second time in 2 years that the proposal has been rejected by the Centre.
Mumbai: He is a fierce critic of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the man behind their legal troubles, but BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today hailed Rajiv Gandhi for his “noble efforts” to resolve the Ayodhya dispute
Hansraj Bhardwaj today slammed his own party leader Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress vice-president has no heart although his father and former prime minister ‘Rajiv Gandhi was a very lovable person with a big heart.’
A new book quotes the late LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham as saying that ‘assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was the Tamil Tigers' biggest mistake’.
Chennai :Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was on Tuesday granted one-day parole by the Madras High Court for attending the 16th day obsequies of her father, who died last
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