The last time a non-Gandhi was in the fray from the constituency was in 1998, when Satish Sharma, a close aide of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, contested the polls but lost to the BJP's Sanjaya Sinh.
India on Thursday warned Canada against giving space to separatists and extremists elements, saying it was not good for the bilateral ties, days after a video of a float, depicting the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, at a parade in Brampton went viral on social media.
Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte together decided that Mahatma Gandhi had to be killed. As to who of them first thought of the plot, however, remains a mystery, says a book to be released on the 60th anniversary of the assassination of the Father of the Nation.
Shailesh Karkera picks the Best Players at Euro 24.
Salmaan Taseer, governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province and a key aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, was on Tuesday assassinated in Islamabad by one of his security guards who was angered by his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law
Please promise, especially those millions who trust you with their hard-earned money, never to let your voting preferences determine your actions on the markets. The most appalling and scary phenomenon was fund houses and brokerages going out on election yatras and writing copious reports promising more than 300 for the BJP. That was your wish as voters. Your investors are paying for it now, points out Shekhar Gupta.
A group of Sikh leaders on Tuesday conferred the status of "great martyr" on Beant Singh, one of the assassins of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, at a function organised by the Dal Khalsa in Jalandhar.
An independent United Nations-appointed panel probing the killing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will on Thursday release its sensitive report on her assassination in 2007
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the mastermind in the Beant Singh assassination case, to life imprisonment, while it upheld the trial court's penalty to the four other accused in the case.A division bench of the court comprising Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Justice Arvind Kumar termed the case of Hawara, who was awarded the capital punishment by the trial court in 2007, as a 'boundary line for death'.
The Bilawal Bhutto-led Pakistan Peoples Party which won the third largest number of seats in the National Assembly in the elections appears to be split on whether to join a coalition government or sit on Opposition benches.
The newly-busted terror module which was allegedly planning a spate of assassinations in various parts of the country was inspired by Anwar Alwaki, the deceased leader of the Al Qaeda.
Convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case lodged in the Central prison in Vellore for nearly 25 years, have turned deeply spiritual.
Immediately following its ban being lifted on July 11, 1949, the RSS began debating entering politics in the pages of its house organ, The Organiser. Thus was born the Jana Sangh/BJP, points out Aakar Patel.Thus Was Born Jana Sangh/BJP, asserts Aakar Patel.
Gupta, along with some other leaders, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and the party's national general secretary Vinod Tawde.
In a historic decision, Pakistan President Asif Zardari has decided to formally recognise his 31-year-old daughter Aseefa Bhutto as the First Lady of the country, according to a media report.
At a press conference in Bengaluru on Saturday the Congress played an audio clip, claiming that the BJP candidate from Chittapur Manikanth Rathod used derogatory language for Kharge and could be heard talking about eliminating him and his family.
Congress leader Vaibhav Walia said Rawat's remarks were not just an insult to the father of the nation but also an insult to the country.
'One needs to understand what kind of means the BJP use to bring other party leaders in their party.' 'They are unscrupulous politicians and money plays an important role.'
A mobile shop owner from Raichur in Karnataka has been arrested as part of state-wide arrests being conducted in connection with recently-uncovered assassination plot.
Another suspect has been taken into custody for shooting at Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal.
Two men were arrested last week following a joint operation by MI5, the UK's counter-terrorism security service, and police.
In his memoirs, Lord Stevens, former metropolitan police commissioner, said he ordered a secret operation to protect the prime minister and his wife after receiving intelligence about the plot, weeks before the event in June 2002.
The Bangalore police, which busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, on Monday arrested a cyber cafe owner by the name Omar.
Biden is not risking his reputation in a crucial election year, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Bangalore police, which recently busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, has detained another suspect. The police have seized a cell phone, laptop and Rs 10,000 in cash from the detained suspect -- Dr Nayeem Siddiqui.
Lone, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Baramulla constituency, said one of the reasons he wants to go to Parliament is to strive and advocate for the same set of laws for the children of Kashmir and the rest of the country.
Nalini, who is serving a life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Tuesday ended her two-day long indefinite fast demanding her premature release, after Vellore jail officials assured that her plea would be considered as per law. Nalini broke her fast today morning after the prison officials prevailed upon her to do so and assured her that her plea would be considered as per law, according to jail authorities.
Hamas-affiliated media reported on Thursday morning that Jamila al-Shanti, the first woman elected to the Hamas politburo was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
'Who has seen what Sharia is? Who knows what actual Sharia is?'
'We think we know him because he's written about everyday.' 'But how many of us know him as a person?'
The actors star in the biopic, Amar Singh Chamkila, which has music by A R Rahman.
'And when the floats go by in the parade garlanded and decorated with the posters of gun toting assassins and murderers and martyrs, you look the other way.' 'And in return we will bring you 10,000 votes because the people of the gurdwaras will vote as we tell them to vote.'
Five activists, allegedly belonging to a right-wing Hindu outfit, on Friday assaulted Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for assassinating former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, at the district court premises in Chandigarh.
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'Modi will do himself a favour if he starts studying about Mahatma Gandhi.' 'I feel pity that we have a PM who has no idea of our own history.'
As the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Punjab government pitched for a pardon for him, Balwant Singh Rajoana, who has been convicted for the assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh, today described Akali leaders as "cheaters" and asked them not to seek clemency for him.
At a time when boorish players' behaviour is a cause of concern for cricketing nations, the man earned love, respect, plaudits with his sheer cricketing skills.
Awami league is Bangladesh's main opposition party and is headed by Sheikh Hasina Wajed.
Speaking to reporters, Trudeau said, "The news coming out of the United States further underscores what we've been talking about from the very beginning: which is India needs to take this seriously."
