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Sealed after Indira killing, gates to Varanasi premises with temple, gurdwara reopened
July 24, 2025 5:44 am
Over 40 years ago, this plot of land was locked up by the district administration to “prevent escalation” after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, was shot dead by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
The day Mrs Gandhi was shot: A reporter’s diary
June 01, 2025 1:55 pm
In her recently released memoir, The Woman Who Ran AIIMS, the Delhi-based Dr Bhargava, now 95, graphically describes the horrific morning when “the ink was not even dry on my appointment letter” but there, on the eighth-floor operation theatre of AIIMS, a desperate team of surgeons was fighting a “losing battle” as they tried to save the Prime Minister’s life.
April 11, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Inquiry Into Riots
April 11, 2025 7:14 am
The government may announce a judicial inquiry into the riots following Indira Gandhi's assassination and also release some top Akali leaders, in a bid to avert the Akali threat to launch the next phase of their agitation on Baisakhi Day.
January 18 1985, Forty Years Ago: Anti-defection Bill
January 18, 2025 8:28 am
Zail Singh announced that an anti-defection bill would be introduced by the Government in the current session of Parliament in keeping with its objective of striving for a healthy public life.
Name of Amritpal Singh’s new party declared amid Maghi Mela: Shiromani Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De)
January 14, 2025 4:01 pm
While Amritpal Singh is still lodged in an Assam jail under the stringent NSA, his father Tarsem Singh attended the rally along with Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, the son of Beant Singh, one of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassins.
November 2, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Shoot-at-sight Orders
November 02, 2024 9:28 am
The Army was called out, indefinite curfew clamped in Delhi except in the New Delhi police district and shoot-at-sight orders were issued after 60 people were killed and 1,000 injured in communal violence following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
November 1, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Indira Gandhi Dead
November 01, 2024 9:34 am
Indira Gandhi is dead. She was assassinated at her residence on October 31. Two of her security guards, a sub-inspector and constable of the Delhi Police, gunned down the 66-year-old leader who has led the nation for over 15 years.
Promotion of violence not acceptable in Canada: Minister on Khalistani supporters' Indira Gandhi assassination posters
June 08, 2024 4:20 pm
India has been asserting for a long that its "core issue" with Canada remained that of the space given to separatists, terrorists and anti-India elements in that country.
After Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Congress divided society and won 149 seats in state polls, says Paatil
April 15, 2024 8:09 am
Five Assembly seats are going to see bypolls after Congress MLAs elected on those seats in the 2022 elections crossed over and are contesting on BJP tickets.
Son of Indira Gandhi killer to contest from Faridkot
April 12, 2024 5:00 pm
Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, a resident of Mohali's Phase 5, is yet to visit Faridkot but claimed that many people from the parliamentary constituency have asked him to contest the elections.
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