When Mehmood wanted to cast Rajiv Gandhi

20 Aug 2024

Rajiv Gandhi’s birth had drawn Jawaharlal Nehru’s attention towards the need for a “competent” pandit to draw his grandson’s horoscope. Rajiv was born on August 20, 1944 at Bombay (now Mumbai). His grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was in Ahmadnagar Jail busy finishing The Discovery of India manuscript. Nehru had reportedly been...

Nirmala Sitharaman To Break Morarji Desai’s Record With Seventh Union Budget

22 Jul 2024

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to make history by presenting her seventh Union Budget in Parliament, surpassing the previous record held by former finance minister Morarji Desai, who presented six budgets. Desai served as finance minister under Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi before becoming Prime Minister...

Historic Event: Indira Gandhi’s Expulsion from Congress: Unveiling the Party’s Internal Divide

27 Jun 2024

After Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's death, Lal Bahadur Shastri assumed the role of Prime Minister, but his tenure was cut short to about eighteen months due to his untimely passing in Tashkent. Following this, the Congress party transferred the Prime Ministerial responsibilities to Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, who, at the time,...

Watch: India’s Longest Serving Prime Ministers Since Independence

05 Jun 2024

With the NDA securing 293 seats, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a historic third term, joining the ranks of India's longest-serving prime ministers. Modi is now one of the few leaders to serve over a decade. Here's a closer look at India's longest tenures in office: Jawaharlal Nehru...

Congress Leaders Honor Jawaharlal Nehru on 60th Death Anniversary

27 May 2024

On Monday, Congress leaders paid tribute to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 60th death anniversary at his memorial, Shanti Van, in New Delhi. Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, party's Parliamentary Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Maken were among those who honored Nehru's memory. In a...

Current political class needs to draw lessons from Gandhi, Nehru

27 May 2024

Both Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru believed in writing and airing their differences out in the open often in rather acrimonious ways. Nehru, twenty years younger and a self-confessed disciple of Gandhi, had serious differences with Gandhi’s approach towards village economy, non-violence, religion and economic thinking. In 1945 when the...

Airing differences without being acrimonious

07 May 2024

Both Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru believed in writing and airing their differences out in the open often in rather acrimonious ways. Nehru, twenty years younger and a self-confessed disciple of Gandhi, had serious differences with Gandhi’s approach towards village economy, non-violence, religion and economic thinking. In 1945 when the...

Leaders wish former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his 91st birthday

26 Sep 2023

On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh celebrated his 91st birthday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other world leaders sent him their best wishes. PM Modi took to X and said “Birthday wishes to former PM Dr Manmohan Singh Ji. I pray for his long life and...

Special session of Parliament: PM Modi recalls words of Vajpayee, Nehru

18 Sep 2023

In his opening remarks to the extraordinary session of Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi quoted former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee as saying that while governments and political parties may come and go, the nation should remain. He additionally highlighted the well-known address given to the Constituent Assembly in...

Nehru offered Oppenheimer Indian citizenship in 1954, reveals American author Kai Bird

24 Jul 2023

According to Kai Bird, the co-author of the book that inspired Christopher Nolan's film on the American quantum physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the-then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered the father of the atomic bomb, Indian citizenship after the latter was humiliated in 1954 over statements against nuclear weapons. “After...