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Kangana to play Indira Gandhi, shares throwback pic from old shoot
PUBLISHED ON JAN 29, 2021 02:56 PM IST
Kangana Ranaut will play former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in a political drama, to be directed by Sai Kabir.
KBC 12: The Rs 7 crore question that made crorepati Neha Shah quit Amitabh Bachchan’s game show, can you answer it?
By HT Entertainment Desk | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 08, 2021 11:19 AM IST
KBC 12 got its fourth crorepati on Thursday in Dr Neha Shah of Mumbai. What is special about her is that she is a practising doctor, who was a frontline Covid-19 warrior during the pandemic and treated patients through the lockdown too.
Cardin’s innovation was across disciplines: Rajeev Sethi
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 02:37 AM IST
Cong forms panel to oversee 50th anniversary celebrations of Bangladesh war
By Deeksha Bhardwaj | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2020 11:36 AM IST
The committee will be led by former defence minister AK Antony
50th anniversary of 1971 India-Pakistan war: All you need to know
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 16, 2020 01:29 PM IST
The 13-day military conflict is one of the shortest wars in history. It ended with a decisive win for India and led to the creation of Bangladesh.
To preserve its edge, the silent service must innovate | Analysis
By C Uday Bhaskar
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 08:00 PM IST
India’s hi-tech human talent needs to be given the necessary incentives to irrigate the Indian techno-strategic ecosystem in a more effective manner
Ex IPS officer-in-charge of former PM Indira Gandhi’s security disqualified as Independent MLA
By Utpal Parashar | Hindustan Times, Guwahati
UPDATED ON NOV 27, 2020 08:54 PM IST
In 1988, Lalduhoma had been the first MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law
Uttar Pradesh: Pandemic causes break in 36-year-old tradition of Indira Marathon
By K Sandeep Kumar | Hindustan Times, Prayagraj
UPDATED ON NOV 20, 2020 09:52 AM IST
The famous run is held every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Remembering Indira Gandhi on her 103rd birth anniversary: Rare photos, quotes of India’s first and only female Prime Minister
By Alfea Jamal | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 19, 2020 06:42 PM IST
Indira Gandhi, India’s first and only female Prime Minister and better known as the Iron Lady of India, was born on November 19 in 1917. Here are some rare photos and inspiring quotes of the ‘Woman of the Millennium’.
‘Great daughter of our motherland’: Rahul Gandhi, Congress remember Indira Gandhi on birth anniversary
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 19, 2020 11:02 AM IST
Paying tribute to his grandmother on her 103rd birth anniversary, Rahul Gandhi tweeted that Indira Gandhi taught him things which inspire him every day.
The Taste With Vir: India’s princely tradition works best as a fairytale
By Vir Sanghvi | Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 04, 2020 06:28 PM IST
In this week’s The Taste, Vir Sanghvi writes, “The selling point of the Rambagh as a luxury hotel is that it gives you a glimpse of what life in princely India must have been like,” continuing, “In every sense that matters, the age of the maharajas is over. Even in the West, they are now seen as anachronisms from a bygone era (like Yugoslav royalty, perhaps) rather than serious glamour figures.”
PM Modi pays tribute to Indira Gandhi on 36th death anniversary
By Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 31, 2020 08:52 AM IST
The prime minister had paid tribute to Gandhi in his monthly Mann ki Baat radio broadcast last Sunday as well. “On the 31st of October we lost former Prime Minister of India, Smt. Indira Gandhi. I most respectfully pay my tributes to her,” he said.
HT Picks: New Reads
By HT Team | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 16, 2020 04:57 PM IST
This week’s interesting reads includes a portrait of a genius, a former R&AW man’s look at a troubled chapter in the nation’s recent history, and a study of the remarkable miniatures in the TAPI Collection
There is an environment of fear in India. The State must renew the commitment to rights
UPDATED ON OCT 12, 2020 07:55 PM IST
The action against a range of intellectuals and activists and journalists — Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy, Apoorvanand, Harsh Mander are among the better-known examples — indicates that the space for free expression and dissent is jeopardised
Oppn MPs hold first-ever night protests near House
By Saubhadra Chatterji and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 22, 2020 12:46 AM IST
Colourful bed sheets were hurriedly brought from an MP’s flats from South Avenue. The aides also ensured enough supply of food for the MPs to sustain them.
Pay heed to the voice of David Attenborough, writes Mark Tully
By Mark Tully
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2020 07:20 PM IST
The world’s voice of nature delivered a message relevant to India’s past, present and future
How Jaishankar-Wang’s 5-point consensus works out depends on one man | Analysis
By Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 11, 2020 10:04 PM IST
Ladakh stand-off: Foreign minister Wang Yi’s narrative about the Ladakh standoff at the border appeared to be at variance with the line that the PLA, and the communist party’s propoganda arms are projecting
First Indira Gandhi Chair for environmental sciences set up
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 10, 2020 02:59 AM IST
“I recall that she (Indira Gandhi) established the ministry of environment in November 1980 and she remained its cabinet minister until her death four years later,” Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said at the launch. “All through her tenure in this position distinguished scientists served as secretaries in the ministry.”
Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Palate politics
By Vir Sanghvi | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2020 08:15 PM IST
Not all politicians are foodies, but Prime Ministers often like their food!
Declassified White House tapes: Criticism over Richard Nixon’s racist, sexist remarks
By Yashwant Raj | Hindustan Times, Washington
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2020 07:05 AM IST
Richard M Nixon, the late president who left the White House in disgrace, used racist and sexist language to vent his frustration with India over the 1971 War, especially Indian women, possibly triggered by his well-known antipathy towards then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, according to recently declassified White House tapes.
1984 anti-Sikh riots: Supreme Court rejects bail plea of convict Sajjan Kumar
By Murali Krishnan | Edited by: Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2020 04:04 PM IST
Rejecting his plea, the top court said that this was ‘no ordinary case’. The plea will next be heard as soon as physical hearings restart.
Pranab Mukherjee: Intergenerational mentor in politics
By NK Singh
UPDATED ON SEP 01, 2020 11:27 AM IST
He had a memory which could challenge any modern computer and leave the listener dumbstruck by its phenomenal precision.
The other side of Pranab babu
By Saubhadra Chatterji | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 31, 2020 07:36 PM IST
An avid reader, and history lover (World War 2 was his favourite part of history), Mukherjee was a foodie till he turned 40 and resorted to a diet — chapatis that were only slightly larger than drink coasters.
To revive the Congress, leaders must return to the grassroots
By Shashi Shekhar
PUBLISHED ON AUG 30, 2020 11:56 PM IST
Instead of seeking a synergy of the “old and new”, Rahul Gandhi will have to find a way to involve those who believe in the grassroots struggles. If he does not want to do so, then the family will have to search for and support a new leadership.
The myth of inner party democracy
UPDATED ON AUG 27, 2020 08:13 PM IST
The Congress controversy is a reminder that Indian parties are family fiefdoms or autocracies
Congress turmoil: A look at past instances involving ‘letters’
By Saubhadra Chatterji | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 25, 2020 01:36 PM IST
A peep into the past throws up several similar incidents. For instance, in 1969, letters were at the centre stage of a tussle between ‘Indicate’ and ‘Syndicate’ that eventually led to the biggest split in the party to date.
‘Not just my father, he was India’s son’, writes Sonali Jaitley
By Sonali Jaitley
UPDATED ON AUG 23, 2020 05:32 AM IST
A DAUGHTER REMEMBERS: A day ahead of former Union minister Arun Jaitley’s death anniversary, lawyer Sonali Jaitley pens a tribute to the publicly unknown facets of her father.
From the ramparts of Red Fort
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON AUG 15, 2020 07:32 AM IST
Over the past 20 years, addresses by prime ministers on Independence Day have focussed on development goals, Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, the importance of Jammu and Kashmir and the bane of corruption.
Modi set to become longest serving non-Congress PM
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 14, 2020 03:55 AM IST
In May 2014, Modi was first elected PM when he led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections winning 282 seats in the Lower House. Five years later, he returned to power with an unprecedented 303 MPs.
The many rebellions of Congress leaders
By Vinod Sharma | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 11, 2020 04:38 AM IST
Albeit on a much smaller scale, the clamor -- it seemed to lose steam after the initial burst on Twitter by Congress leaders of Pilot’s generation -- to not let him leave was reminiscent of 1999.