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The conversation at 10.45 am Washington time was dutifully recorded and released as part of historical documents for the period by the State Department many decades later.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.
Amid the controversy around Kangana Ranaut's 'Emergency,' the censor board is yet to greenlight the release, causing a postponement.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday while recalling the 1975 emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said the imposition of emergency was sacrilege of dharma that cannot be countenanced, condoned, overlooked or forgotten.
Western media has a strange record of being very harsh to several leaders of the world at certain phases in time.
The traumatic episode of emergency must act as a reminder of the responsibility of democratic institutions in always safeguarding the freedoms and rights of citizens.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called his upcoming visit to Austria an "honour" as India and Austria celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations.
