sanjay gandhi

Shashi Tharoor criticises Emergency: 'Unchecked power' turned into 'authoritarianism'

July 10, 2025 4:38 pm

Shashi Tharoor criticised Indira Gandhi, often referred to by the Congress and the Nehru family as the "Iron Lady", for endorsing harsh actions during the Emergency.

How Sanjay Gandhi led Emergency-era ‘nasbandi’ campaign

June 29, 2024 6:44 am

Among the excesses of the Emergency, the Sanjay Gandhi-led campaign of forced mass vasectomies might be the most infamous. Forty nine years after the Emergency was declared, here is a quick recall.

The bulldozer and elections: It’s not demolition, it’s domicide

May 01, 2024 8:51 pm

Demolition can be both constructive and destructive. Domicide, on the other hand, is the killing of home, which carries the promise of safety, a necessity for dignity and is a matter of pride

Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Amethi shut over 'medical negligence', Cong accuses BJP of vendetta

September 21, 2023 11:35 am

Sonia Gandhi is chairperson of the Trust that has been running the 100-bed hospital since 1989.

Nitish allots bungalow where RCP Singh lives to Chief Secy

June 10, 2022 7:26 am

Though the bungalow had been allotted to BJP MLC Sanjay Gandhi, RCP Singh had been living there for over 10 years. Gandhi lives at his personal house in Patna.

March 28, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Indira vs Maneka

March 27, 2022 11:04 pm

Describing Lucknow convention in support of Sanjay Gandhi’s five-point programme as an “anti-party act” and especially against her, PM Indira Gandhi said it was sad that those who were supposed to have been close to Sanjay Gandhi wanted to destroy his image.

August 7, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Sanjay Crash Probe

August 07, 2021 12:41 am

This is the finding of the departmental inquiry by the inspector of accident, after a nearly a year-long investigation.

Forty Years Ago: June 30, 1980

June 30, 2020 12:05 am

A Kabul report reaching New Delhi on Friday said that Afghan army mutineers had killed 10 Soviet troops in an encounter following the rebellion. However, sources here said the embassy's account did not cite casualties.

Forty years ago: July 24, 1978

July 24, 2018 12:33 am

A two-day international conference called for the establishment of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean and for a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific.

May 25, 1978, Forty Years Ago: Fernandes Case

May 24, 2018 11:31 pm

On May 25, 1978, Justice Shah rejected an application filed by counsel for four Karnataka police officers seeking a short adjournment of the inquiry into the alleged illegal detention and torture of Lawrence Fernandes, brother of George Fernandes.

Sanjay Gandhi's birth anniversary: His unseen pictures with Nehru, Indira, Varun, Rajiv

December 14, 2015 3:19 pm

Sanjay Gandhi was born on December 14, 1946 and was a dominant figure in the Indian political scenario. He died in a plane crash on 23 June 1980 while he was flying a new aircraft of the Delhi Flying club.

I hold three people responsible for making Sanjay Gandhi the unconstitutional authority: R K Dhawan

June 29, 2015 9:58 am