Jawaharlal Nehru
- Business
China: FM hits back at Cong, says Nehru had washed his hands off north-east
Bengaluru: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday hit back at the Congress questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” on Chinese actions on the border, saying the country’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru…
- India
Why are they ashamed of using Nehru surname, PM Modi targets Gandhi family members
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a frontal attack on the Gandhi family members asking why they were ashamed of using the Nehru surname even as he criticised Jawaharlal…
- Delhi
Bose would be embarrassed to know he was being used to diminish Nehru, Gandhi: Guha
New Delhi: On most issues barring non-violence, Subhas Chandra Bose was on the same page as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and would have been “embarrassed and pained” to know he was…
- Hyderabad
Mukarram Jah once turned down Presidency of India
Hyderabad: During the reign of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister of India, the Asaf Jah VIII Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan Makarram Jah Bahadur spent a brief time in the Teen…
- Kashmir
Nehru responsible for difficult situation in Kashmir: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP has deemed the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, responsible for the situation in Kashmir, and said that the Valley was divided in 1948, because of Nehru. The…
- India
Amit Shah attacks Congress on Parliament chaos, invokes Nehru
Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that the Congress was “really behaving over something else” when the house was adjourned since the Opposition insisted on discussing the India-China border incident of December…
- India
Rahul looks like Saddam Hussein, says Sarma; Cong terms him ‘petty troll’
Ahmedabad: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is looking like “Saddam Hussein”, the former Iraqi dictator, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Congress which dubbed the…
- India
Cong slams BJP for ‘blaming Nehru’ on Maha-Karnataka border row
Mumbai: The Maharashtra unit of Congress slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for pointing fingers at the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru over the simmering Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute, here on Wednesday.…
- Kashmir
Hurt by criticism of Nehru, Indira Gandhi: Farooq Abdullah
Jammu: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday slammed the critics of former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi and said he was hurt by “derogatory remarks” against the towering national…
- India
On Nehru’s birth anniversary, BJP, Congress clash over first PM’s Kashmir policy
New Delhi: The BJP and the Congress clashed on Monday on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Kashmir policy over which two union ministers slammed the country’s first prime minister’s decision to take the matter to…
- India
Nehru showed “magnanimity” to include RSS leader in his Cabinet, says KPCC chief
Kannur: KPCC chief K Sudhakaran on Monday said India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was a great leader who had shown his “magnanimity” to include RSS leader Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in his…
- Mumbai
Caste consciousness is greater today than in 1950s: Tharoor
Mumbai: There is greater consciousness of caste in Indian society today compared to the decade after independence, Congress MP and author Shashi Tharoor said here on Saturday. Speaking during a discussion on…
- India
Jairam Ramesh describes Kiren Rijiju’s comments on Tawang as ‘utter lie’
New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday attacked Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his claim that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru didn’t want Tawang to be part of India. In…
- India
Congress slams Rijiju over his comments on Nehru
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday attacked Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his article in which he blamed Nehru for “rejecting Maharaja Hari Singh’s accession request in July 1947”, and said…
- India
Congress reminds BJP it was Patel who banned RSS; called it ‘clear threat to the state’
New Delhi: In his speech on the occasion of taking over as Congress President, Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and reminded his audience that he was leading a party once headed…
