Indira Gandhi

Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary

Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversaryNew Delhi, Nov 19: Nations pays homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 91st birth anniversary today.

The National integration week also begins on this day.

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will administer the National Integration pledge marking the start of the ''Quami Ekta'' week.

Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi

New Delhi, Oct 31: President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari led the nation in paying homage to Indira Gandhi on her 24th anniversary of the Martyrdom here today.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi also paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal.

Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards at her residence on October 31, 1984.

Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1984.

She was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1964 and also served as the country''s Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the government of Lal Bahadur Shastri.

India to discuss issue of Indira’s assassin’s glorification with Canadian government

New Delhi, Apr 15: Former Indian Prime Minister, Indira GandhiIndia is likely to take up with the Canadian government the controversial Baisakhi parade in Vancouver during which Indo-Canadian community glorified Indira’s Gandhi’s killers, sources told a TV channel.

The organisers of the parade had put up pictures of those who they call ‘martyrs’. The posters included Satwant and Beant Singh who assassinated Former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

Pakistan without Benazir is like India without Indira Gandhi: SAFMA

Lahore, Dec 31: The South Asian Free Media Association’s (SAFMA) Chairman of Pakistan People's Party Benazir BhuttoLate Former Prime Minister Indira GandhiIndia-chapter Secretary General Vinod Sharma has said Pakistan without Benazir Bhutto is like India without Indira Gandhi.