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March 29, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Extremists’ Numbers
March 29, 2025 7:21 am
Defence Minister P V Narasimha Rao said that the government does not have reports about any large-scale infiltration of extremists from Pakistan into India.
March 9, 1985, Forty Years Ago: India-USSR Ties
March 08, 2025 7:09 am
India and the Soviet Union are likely to step up their cooperation in the defence sphere next week when the Defence Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, will lead a high-level delegation to Moscow.
Inside Track: Amit Shah to the rescue
February 09, 2025 7:23 am
The BJP appeared handicapped by a lethargic and late start in the Delhi Assembly election, besides poor selections. But in the last lap of the campaign, Amit Shah decided to take charge of the party’s leaderless flock.
Held after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, how the 1991 elections heralded change for India under PV Narasimha Rao
May 23, 2024 12:16 pm
PV Narasimha Rao was the first Prime Minister from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to complete his five-year tenure. Two events under his govt changed India forever — the liberalisation of the economy, and the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Read more in part 10 of our series on the history of Indian elections.
Express View on overturning of JMM verdict: Protecting debate
March 05, 2024 11:52 pm
In overturning the verdict in the case, SC makes a course correction. It must lead to expanding, not constricting, deliberative space
Decode Politics: How SC in 1998 came to grant legislators immunity in bribery cases
March 04, 2024 5:51 pm
JMM MPs Suraj Mandal, Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi, and Shailendra Mahto were charged with accepting bribes to save PV Narasimha Rao’s minority government in 1993, when it was dealing with the fallout of liberalisation and Babri demolition.
P V Narasimha Rao steered reforms but shunned spotlight
February 10, 2024 7:56 am
In a climate hostile towards economic liberalisation, P V Narasimha Rao spearheaded & backed his carefully-chosen team of ministers, officials
Bharat Ratna P V Narasimha Rao: 4 things you did not know about the man who changed India's economy
February 10, 2024 12:30 pm
Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao shared a frosty relationship with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. After he passed away, his body wasn’t allowed inside the Congress headquarters for ordinary workers to pay their respects.
How PV Narasimha Rao became India’s PM from the brink of political retirement
December 27, 2023 10:34 am
Just a year before he became the prime minister, Rao had thought his political career was almost over. He had packed his bags, books, and beloved computer and sent them to his second son’s home in Hyderabad. So how did he first become Congress chief and then the PM? We take a look.
August 3, 1983, Forty Years Ago: Rao On Sri Lanka
August 02, 2023 11:02 pm
External Affairs Minister P V Narasimha Rao told Parliament that there was substance in the report that the Sri Lankan authorities had sought military assistance from some foreign powers.
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