Rajiv Gandhi

Took over as Prime Minister in 2004 after India's Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi took power in landslide elections. Singh is the first non-Hindu to hold the position. Has...

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...commando raid on the Indian Parliament in 2001, remains on death row. Nalini Murugan, found guilty of the murder of Rajiv Gandhi by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in 1991, had her death sentence commuted to life imprisonment after Sonia...

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...he was defeated in the Eelam Freedom struggle, but at the same time, could not remain indifferent when former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Tamil leaders like Amirthalingam, Yogeswaran, Mukundan, Sri Sabaratnam Padmanaba, Yotheeswaran...

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...a world free of nuclear weapons.' 'I think that is a world which has been the dream of our leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru to Rajiv Gandhi. We would like to work with all like-minded countries to achieve that goal,' said the Indian Prime...

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...case relating to the alleged payment of Rs.640 million as commission in the 1987 howitzer deal. He was known to be close to the late Rajiv Gandhi, who was prime minister in 1987 when the bribery scandal broke, and his wife Sonia. Quattrocchi...

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...the Silent Valley was declared as a National Park on November 15, 1984. The Silent Valley was dedicated to the nation by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in September 1985. (c) 2009 Published with permission from United News of India.

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...late 80s and 90s, actors Dharmendra, Abhay Deol and Nana Patekar have been approached to play Motilal Nehru (Indira's grandfather), Rajiv Gandhi (her son) and politician Jayaprakash Narayan respectively. Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Tommy...

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...popularly known, launched the campaign with the blessings of his mother, garlanded statues of leaders like Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, B.R. Amebdkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram in the city and offered prayers at a temple and a dargah. This was...

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...Bollywood actors in negotiations are Nana Patekar (for Jayaprakash Narayan's role), Dharmendra (Motilal Nehru), and Abhay Deol (Rajiv Gandhi). Even Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones are being approached by a well-known casting...

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...was familiar with his political master's thinking. "He (Arora) actually played the role of Socrates to Rajiv Gandhi. In the initial years, Gandhi depended on him a lot and Arora was for those years his political guru," said a former...

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