Indira Gandhi had asked Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka mil...

Karan Johar wasn’t too far away when he said that it’s all about loving your family. The Gandhi family, in all its splendour and grime, makes for a far more entertaining saga than all of KJo’s films and Queen Kapoor’s telly dramas put ...

Narendra Modi appears to be confronting the BJP's 'Old Guard' just as Indira Gandhi fought the 'Syndicate' within the Congress, says Bharat Bhushan Marginalised by the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Union minister Jaswant Singh has claimed that the current decision-making in the party reminded him of 1975, Indira Gandhi's Emergency era. A more apt comparison might be made with the years preceding the Emergency when Gandhi split her party to create a new Congress in 1969. Gandhi was then ...

Kick-starting the poll campaign in her mother Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Rae Bareli on Wednesday, Priyanka Gandhi made a veiled attack on Narendra Modi, saying only one man took all the decisions in the Bharatiya Janata Party. “There is one ideology under which we want to empower common people. All our schemes have been made keeping in mind the objectives that you should be strengthened,” she said, adding, “On the other hand, there is another ideology in which all ...

Rahul Gandhi’s press conference showed how cocooned he may be, that he does not brainstorm with a large enough group of party colleagues and senior leaders. But it also showed how difficult it is going to be to reform an entrenched organisation like the Congress from within, says Neerja Chowdhury. There were two mistakes Rahul Gandhi made during his interview to Times Now’s Arnab Goswami, which is the first freewheeling media interview the Congress vice-president gave since he came ...

Addressing the students of the RBI-run Indira Gandhi Institute for Economic Research (IGIDR) on their convocation day here, Rajan admitted that in the current environment, "it is tough to be an honest public servant."      "The CBI ...

Sonia, who is seeking re-election, came to the Returning Officer’s office here in a cavalcade. "I hope the people of Rae Bareli continue to support us," she said. Sonia, who is also the UPA chairperson, was given a rousing reception by enthusiastic ...

Rahul, who started his party’s poll campaign for the April 9 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state, stressed that the Congress’ ideology was to unite the people irrespective of caste, creed and religion. "The opposition wants to divide the ...

Presenting the findings of a probe into the Margaret Thatcher government's role in helping her counterpart Indira Gandhi, Hague told the Parliament that UK played no role in the operation by the Indian Army. "The Cabinet Secretary’s report therefore ...

Sonia Gandhi spends just 30 minutes in Kanyakumari to promote 39 candidates in Tamil Nadu. A Ganesh Nadar listens in. Kanyakumari is the southern-most district of India. Congress President Sonia Gandhi addressed a rally on Wednesday. She arrived in a helicopter from Kerala at 12.30 pm and left in 30 minutes. The crowd had filled in from 10 in the morning and sat through the event in blistering heat. A few women left mid-way as till noon there was no information of Sonia’s movements. Sonia ...