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'Wonder if he's under pressure': Cong leader on Chidambaram's Blue Star remarks

Published on Oct 12, 2025 10:45 IST

Speaking at the Kushwant Singh Literary Festival in Himachal’s Kasauli, Chidambaram said that, "There was a way to retrieve and capture all the militants, but Operation Blue Star was the wrong way".

'Op Blue Star was wrong way, Indira Gandhi paid with life for it': P Chidambaram

Chidambaram was addressing a discussion on 'They Will Shoot You, Madam: My Life Through Conflict' with author Harinder Baweja.

Updated on Oct 12, 2025 08:11 IST

Mind the Gap: Unshakeable: Nilam Katara’s fight for justice

Nilam Katara fought for 16 years to get justice to her son Nitish Katara

Published on Aug 25, 2025 07:15 IST

Mind the Gap: In her words: Urvashi Butalia

The 1947 Partition

Published on Aug 18, 2025 24:30 IST

PM Modi’s 5 big announcements in record 103-minute Independence Day speech

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the Red Fort on the occasion of the 79th Independence Day in New Delhi on Friday,

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 01:49 IST

PM Modi surpasses Indira Gandhi’s record with 12 straight I-Day addresses

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the Red Fort on the occasion of the 79th Independence Day, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.

Published on Aug 15, 2025 02:37 IST

India’s past resilience shows the way forward

We’ll face challenges in our journey ahead. All we need to do is take a vow to deal with at least one social vice on Independence Day (Bloomberg)

Published on Aug 10, 2025 14:37 IST

Anurag Thakur claims Indira Gandhi sought US help during 1971 Pakistan war

BJP MP Anurag Thakur wondered whether Indira Gandhi didn’t trust the armed forces and chose to plead with the US to halt the war with Pakistan.

Published on Jul 30, 2025 14:25 IST

Modi breaks Indira Gandhi's record to become 2nd-longest serving PM of India

Modi, 74, the first prime minister born in Independent India, was sworn-in for the third consecutive term in June last year, having first entered the top office on May 26, 2014.

Updated on Jul 25, 2025 06:38 IST

50 years of Emergency: A socialist who stuck to politics of JP and Lohia

A young Rajendra Chaudhary addressing a rally in Delhi’s Ramleela Maidan in 1975. (Sourced)

Published on Jul 24, 2025 13:32 IST

50 yrs of Emergency: ‘It changed power not system’

Suresh Trivedi is now settled in Farrukhabad. (Sourced)

Published on Jul 22, 2025 13:39 IST

50 yrs of Emergency: ‘That time was fraught with corruption, electoral misconduct’

Ram Dutt Tripathi is a veteran journalist. (Sourced)

Published on Jul 22, 2025 13:33 IST

'Not ready to cooperate with him': K Muraleedharan's fresh jab at Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor had urged all parties to come together and emphasised that in their own ways, their goal is to make the nation better.

Published on Jul 21, 2025 10:49 IST

The Yashpal Kapur story, his legacy in Raebareli and how today’s generation hardly remembers him

Yashpal Kapur with former PM Indira Gandhi (Picture provided by Kapur’s son Ashok Kapur)

Published on Jul 16, 2025 06:01 IST

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah refutes BJP's 'Rahul Gandhi humiliated him' claim

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah accused the BJP of betraying Kannadigas by denying Central funds.

Published on Jul 12, 2025 07:18 IST

Cong takes ‘parrot’ jibe at Tharoor over Emergency article, BJP leaps into row

Shashi Tharoor and other members of Operation Sindoor outreach delegations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's residence in New Delhi in June.

Updated on Jul 11, 2025 08:11 IST

Tharoor's latest on Cong: Cites Sanjay Gandhi's excesses in ‘Emergency lessons’

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor saying something to Rahul Gandhi (back to camera) at the Parliament in New Delhi.

Updated on Jul 10, 2025 06:41 IST

The Emergency: A political battle and a personal story

My father, Arun Jaitley, took great pride in being the first satyagrahi against the Emergency (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 2, 2025 14:46 IST

Safeguarding liberty: Lessons from the Emergency

Despite a slew of restrictions during the Emergency, acts of protest, though limited, emerged. (HT ARCHIVE)

Published on Jun 30, 2025 22:56 IST

BJP leader Sambit Patra seeks apology from Congress for Emergency-era actions

Sambit Patra cited reports of the Emergency-era which quoted Indira Gandhi from her press conference and address to convey her critical take on the Constitution.

Published on Jun 28, 2025 12:12 IST

A generation of young activists faced Emergency onslaught head-on

Students of JNU demonstrating and demanding for the removal of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as the Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (HT Archives)

Published on Jun 27, 2025 24:22 IST

Himachal: Emergency was murder of Constitution, says Jai Ram, Cong hits back

Himachal leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur (File)

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Published on Jun 26, 2025 03:46 IST

Emergency spurred seismic shifts in Indian politics

Visitors at an exhibition organised to mark the 50th anniversary of the Emergency imposed in 1975 by then PM Indira Gandhi in New Delhi on June 25. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 25, 2025 13:02 IST

Emergency: Indira Gandhi gave ₹90,000 for her fiercest critic JP's treatment

Jayaprakash Narayan gave a call for sampoorn kranti (total revolution) in 1974 to cleanse Indian politics of corruption.

Updated on Jun 25, 2025 08:31 IST

‘Democracy under arrest’: PM Modi's salvo at Cong on 50 years of Emergency

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Congress on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency.

Updated on Jun 25, 2025 04:31 IST

India never bows to dictatorship: Shah on Emergency

Amit Shah took potshots at the Opposition, particularly the Congress party for accusing the ruling dispensation of disregarding the sanctity of the Constitution. (PTI)

Published on Jun 25, 2025 01:50 IST

Fifty years ago, tryst with fear

The government had its way with the Emergency because the institutions expected to provide the checks and balances failed to challenge the subversion of the Constitution. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 24, 2025 15:17 IST

The dark days of Emergency and its lessons

Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, had become unpopular due to bad governance, corruption, and the economic downturn. (HT Archives)

Updated on Jun 24, 2025 24:09 IST

Emergency at 50: Learn from the mistakes of the past

During the Emergency, the bureaucracy, hand in glove with the government, had turned alarmingly autocratic (HT Archive)

Published on Jun 23, 2025 10:20 IST

From censorship to arrests, when culture, artists came in crosshairs

Movies like Kissa Kursee Ka and Aandhi, which had characters that seemed to be based on then PM Indira Gandhi and peopleclose to her, were banned after Emergency was imposed. (IMDB)

Published on Jun 23, 2025 24:23 IST

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