'In her insecurity, she destroyed the institutions of democracy.' 'She packed Parliament with her supporters with loyalty being more important than ability; she superseded judges; she corrupted the civil service.' 'She knew how to use people against each other and was quite a master of that.' 'She would do this with calculated skill and in the bargain cause enmity between brothers, split up families.'
The finance minister said unlike Hitler, Gandhi went a step ahead by endeavouring to transform India into "dynastic democracy".
'His assessment is wide off the mark from what is expected to be history's final verdict -- which is that Indira was the most unacceptable of all prime ministers because she was the only one who tried to throttle Indian democracy,' says Amulya Ganguli.
India's Virdhawal Khade marginally bettered his long-standing National record to get closer to a second Asian Games medal as he qualified for the men's 50 metres freestyle final, clocking 22.43s, which was third fastest time in the heats, in Jakarta, on Tuesday.
'Some of his decisions were not so good, but his intentions were always guided by a deep national interest.'
Indu Sarkar is an effective propaganda movie only to the extent that it knows its mission-statement and knows whom to shame and whom to take in its stride, feels Sreehari Nair.
'In the last decade, Parliamentarians had sought for an increase of 400 per cent for their compensation.' 'Have we really earned this massive increment?'
However, Bajpai ruled out any possibility of an epic battle in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections between Sonia Gandhi and Arun Jaitley.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, inheritors of the family pocket borough, not only failed to protect industrial units but also to contribute to progress of their own.
A R Antulay, the former Maharashtra CM, passed away today on Tuesday a prolonged illness
Ankit, son of an employee at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, had allegedly been kidnapped from the Eldeco Udyan colony on Friday evening.
The 72-year-old master strategist ensured that the Congress's internal conflict ended and took on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shivraj Singh Chouhan -- the state's longest ever serving chief minister.
A minor boy around 10 years old allegedly drove a SUV into a mother and child in Paschim Vihar area of west Delhi late on Tuesday night.
Rahul suffered a sprain after he had a fall at the Sanjay Gandhi hospital guesthouse in Munshiganj on Wednesday morning and is likely to leave for New Delhi.
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'I am proud of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai, that this is a state which has done more number of tests than any state in India.' 'The more you test, the more number of cases you will pick up.' 'If you do not do the tests, then you are groping in the dark.'
The former prime minister was assassinated on this day 19 years ago.
A bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony area of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
The doctors, who are protesting against the assault on two of their colleagues at NRS Medical College and Hospital, had on Friday sought unconditional apology from Banerjee and set six conditions for the state government in order to withdraw their stir.
The apex court has directed that status quo be maintained till its next hearing on October 21.
On September 20, the Maharashtra government had told the court that Aarey cannot be declared a forest just because of its greenery.
Can humans and leopards co-exist in Mumbai? The answer is not what you think!
Residents yet to recover from shock as Dahisar river in spate leaves behind a wake of destruction.
The leopard, a four-year-old female, was trapped on the Borivali-Thane Ghodbunder road, forest officials said. The trap was one of the 35 set by forest authorities in and around the national park.
Ailing MP Governor Ram Naresh Yadav is being taken to Lucknow to attend the last rites of his son Shailesh, who died under mysterious conditions.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday once again attacked Raghuram Rajan on the monetary policy, over a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had disapproved of his criticism of the Reserve Bank of India chief.
The duo identified as Arti (55) and Saroj (30) were found near the Punjabi Bagh flyover along the Ring Road with bruises on their hands and faces, police sources said.
Following the footsteps of his maternal uncle and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi's son Rehan was on a surprise visit to Amethi during which he interacted and shared meals with villagers, creating a buzz in the high-profile constituency.
In the midst of war of words between Priyanka Gandhi and her cousin Varun, Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday said there was no war and her son was fighting his elections just like the Congress was fighting theirs.
"A three-and-a-half-year-old female leopard was trapped in front of the Forest Gate on Darbar Road near Mulund Colony on Monday night," a senior forest official said.
After leopards killed six people in the area in June, numerous cages had been positioned by the Forest Department to trap the ones straying near residential colonies around the park.
Leopards have killed two persons and injured two others in the periphery of Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai since Sunday night.
Delhi police has registered a case of death due to negligence in connection with the loss of life of an infant girl during the demolition of a slum cluster in west Delhi's Shakur basti.
'Unfortunately these programmes were not taken seriously by the bureaucracy and they were put on the backburner,' Bhairon Singh Shekhawat said.
'I do not think Rajiv Gandhi at that stage had any influence on his mother. Indira Gandhi relied totally on Sanjay and she looked upon him as a dependable son.' 'What really affected people and eventually Indira Gandhi was the sterilisation drive. She lost so badly in north India because of these drives.' 'She is the one who has given this aura of 'the family' to the Gandhis.' The second and final part of veteran journalist Coomi Kapoor, whose book The Emergency: A Personal Account was published recently, to Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com about Independent India's darkest phase.
Their visit has provided impetus to the Congress in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh.
The apex medical body, IMA demanded a comprehensive central law in dealing with violence on doctors and healthcare staff, and in hospitals.
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