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New Delhi, Apr 11: There were three assassination attempts on Sanjay Gandhi, a key figure during the Emergency, including one where a high powered rifle was used when the leader was visiting Uttar Pradesh, a US cable outed by WikiLeaks has claimed. In a September 1976 dispatch, the US embassy reported the then prime minister Indira Gandhi's younger son was targeted by an unknown assailant in a

New Delhi, Apr 10: The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and M Y Eqbal turned down the plea of the convicts that they could not be held guilty of murder as the body was not recovered by the Delhi police and there was delay in lodging FIR in the case. "It is well-settled that

New Delhi, Apr 10: "Delhi is not a safe place," West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, as she abruptly cut short her three-day visit here cancelling her appointments with the Prime Minister and the finance minister. "Today, I was supposed to have a meeting with the finance minister... but I am returning to Kolkata. I was unwell since last evening and had to be administered

New Delhi, Apr 10: It's the ultimate irony. While travellers are waiting for really low fares from AirAsia India, Indian carriers are waiting for it to begin operations so that they can increase their ancillary revenue by charging more for things like check-in baggage. Indian carriers have been planning to reduce the current domestic free check-in baggage allowance of 20 kg to 15 kg. But the only

New Delhi, Apr 10: Ahead of his visit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he intends to seek greater business ties with Germany as India continues to take steps to boost domestic investments, attract foreign capital and spur the economy back to its long-term growth potential of eight per cent. Singh, who left for Berlin on a three-day visit, said Germany is also a key partner for India in

New Delhi, Apr 10: They are hostile neighbours widely seen by many as competing to have a bigger nuclear arsenal. However, after its first nuclear test in 1974, India offered to share nuclear technology with Pakistan. In her statement to Indian Parliament after the tests on July 22, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said she had told her Pakistani counterpart, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, that New Delhi would

New Delhi, Apr 9: Even though the US establishment struggled during the Emergency to read Indira Gandhi's political moves, it seemed to have had a source in the Gandhi household between 1975 and 1977. According to the latest cables released by Wikileaks, on a few instances the dispatches from the US Embassy in New Delhi repeatedly refers to a "household" source and "sources close to the PM's

New Delhi, Apr 8: A private jet carrying BJP President Rajnath Singh and senior leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing today at Delhi airport after it developed problems in its auto-pilot system. The BJP leaders were flying to Bangalore to address an election rally there but the plane made an emergency landing nine minutes after taking off this morning, sources told PTI

Hyderabad, Apr 8: Pakistan is "a fake country", and one day will reunite with India along with Bangladesh, Press Council of India chairperson Justice (Retd) Markandey Katju said here today. He also said that whereas today an overwhelming majority of Hindus and Muslims were "communal", it was not so a century ago. "A fake country was created in the name of Pakistan. It is an artificially created

Hyderabad, Apr 7: India is passing through a transition period from feudal to a modern society as witnessed in Europe, and media has to play an active role, says Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Saturday criticised the media for projecting non-issues and deceiving people instead of highlighting real problems affecting the