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At the stroke of midnight, the President of India signed a document sent by then prime minister Indira Gandhi. It said, 'In ...
On this day in 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked special constitutional powers to declare a national emergency. It ...
On this day 50 years ago, then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency, suspending rights and jailing rivals.
During the Emergency, over 200 journalists were jailed, press was censored, and news agencies merged as Indira Gandhi clamped ...
India witnessed the beginning of 21 months of the Emergency imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Fifty years after ...
The Indira Gandhi government's Emergency saw 48 ordinances, including amendments to the Maintenance of Internal Security Act ...
Some continued to wield political power even after the Emergency, others had their children enter politics & there are even ...
The immediate trigger for Gandhi’s drastic step was a decision of the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that disqualified her from ...
In a little-known episode from the Emergency era, former prime minister Indira Gandhi quietly donated a significant sum of Rs ...
If my elder sister does something wrong, it’s my duty to write against that', says Sahgal, 98, at her home in Dehradun ...
During the Emergency era, P N Dhar offers an insightful account of its complexities in his book. Sanjay Gandhi emerges as a ...