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Former union minister and Congress leader Arun Nehru passes away

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New Delhi: Arun Nehru, former union minister and powerful figure during the Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi, passed away Thursday night after prolonged illness.
Nehru, 69, a cousin of Rajiv Gandhi

No more smoking gun: Quattrocchi dies ‘peacefully’

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New Delhi: Cont­r­o­versial Italian businessman Ottavio Quatt­r­occhi, a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal, has died in Milan following a stroke.
 
The 74-year-old Quattr­o­cchi died 'peace

Narayanan as IB chief 'suppressed' Rajiv assassination video

A former CBI officer, who probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has claimed that a video purportedly showing the assassin Dhanu at the public meeting at Sriperumbudur on the fateful day had been

Nation pays tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on 68th birth anniversary

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The nation on Monday pays tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 68th birth anniversary.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan S

Sonia wants swift action in Assam violence, condemns treatment to Northeasterners

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday wanted swift legal action against people behind the violence in Assam and also stern action against those 'spoiling' harmony in the wake of the exodus of peop

Prisoner in death row in Rajiv Gandhi case tops plus-two exam score in TN jails

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Death row convict Perarivalan, sentenced in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has topped among the 45 prisoners from various jails in the state who took the plus-two examinations this year.

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Rajiv Gandhi remembered on death anniversary

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The nation on Monday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed in a suicide bomb attack on this day 21 years ago.

President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Rajiv case: SC shifts three mercy pleas to itself

Taking note of high 'politicisation' of mercy petitions by three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of their ca

Rajiv Gandhi assassins' pardon pleas moved to SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that it will hear the petitions of three convicts, who are challenging the death sentence given to them for their role in the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

'Deep Throat' in Indian arms scandal breaks cover

The whistleblower in one of India's biggest corruption scandals in the 1980s, which tarnished then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi broke cover Wednesday to explain why he leaked crucial documents to the m

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