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A new book by historian Srinath Raghavan charts Indira Gandhi’s political career and how it shaped post-colonial India ...
After Trump's announcement of additional levies on Indian goods, Jairam Ramesh took to X to remind PM Modi how Indira Gandhi ...
According to people briefed on the US-India trade talks, Trump was irked by Modi’s public contradictions of his claim to have used trade as leverage to broker the ceasefire that ended what was the ...
Indira Gandhi stood up against American pressure tactics. In contrast, Modi evoked a sense of dismay after declaration of ...
Narendra Modi has beaten Indira Gandhi’s record as India’s second-longest-serving Prime Minister in an uninterrupted stint.
A royal figure turned politician, Vijaya Raje Scindia was imprisoned during the Emergency imposed in 1975 by Prime Minister ...
Rahul Gandhi criticized PM Modi's silence on Trump's ceasefire claims during the Lok Sabha debate on Operation Sindoor. He ...
Anurag Thakur claimed in Lok Sabha that Indira Gandhi wrote to US President Nixon during the 1971 war, pleading for help to ...
The Emergency ended in March 1977 when Indira Gandhi called for fresh elections and was voted out of power, leading to the first non-Congress national government since independence.
Indira Gandhi had the unenviable task of keeping together a Congress that was splitting up and bridging the gap between Gandhi’s populist idealism and her own father’s more pragmatic ...
Before other guards could react, Indira Gandhi lay dying, with blood surging from at least 25 bullet wounds. Doctors could do nothing to save her.
Indira Gandhi. Raghu Rai/Magnum Photos In spite of her unprecedented authority, Mrs. Gandhi was insecure and distrustful, and had little patience for defiance.