A 107-metre-deep shaft was dug, and a nuclear device measuring 1.25 metres in diameter, placed on a hexagonal metallic tripod, was carefully lowered to the bottom and securely packed by the midnight of May 17–18, 1974.
In a pointed message on X, Dubey referred to the December 1978 precedent, when Indira Gandhi was expelled from the Lok Sabha and briefly imprisoned following the adoption of such a motion.
The conversation at 10.45 am Washington time was dutifully recorded and released as part of historical documents for the period by the State Department many decades later.
She is called the “iron lady of India.” But when did Indira Gandhi show the real steel in her?? Was it the day she won the war and split Pakistan into two or the day the Janata Party Government came to arrest her or the day she decided to impose emergency?
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Wednesday commemorated the 108th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, by shining a light on her profound and personal relationship with Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his work.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said: "The exemplary and dynamic leadership of Smt. Indira Gandhi, showing immense political courage, shall forever remain an inspiration".
Tearing into the Congress party, Puri said that the Grand Old Party needs to undergo serious introspection on the events of 1984 on that particular day.
Addressing a press conference on the ocassion of Patel's 150th birth anniversary, he said Patel had always maintained that RSS speeches were filled with "poison of communalism".
Addressing a largely attended public rally in Nalanda on Thursday, the Congress leader noted that President Trump had humiliated PM Modi about 50 times, repeatedly claiming that he made Modi stop the war — yet Modi was keeping quiet.
Chidambaram said, “No disrespect to any military officers here, but that (Blue Star) was the wrong way to retrieve the Golden Temple. A few years later, we showed the right way to retrieve the Golden Temple by keeping the Army out.”
