Tag Archives: Pranab Mukherjee
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India hangs 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts plotter Yakub Memon
30 July 2015 | Peter Hutchison
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India executed Yakub Memon for conspiring in the nation's deadliest attack, a series of blasts that killed hundreds in Mumbai more than two decades ago. ...
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Modi’s India: From idealism to pragmatism
22 September 2014 | Vijay Kranti
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Mr Modi's style has made a drastic shift of Indian polity from a six-decade-old Nehruvian suicidal idealism to a pragmatic and self-respecting style for which Sardar Patel has been always remembered and respected. ...
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Wary of Chinese advances, India’s Modi woos neighbours
14 June 2014 | Bhuvan Bagga
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Narendra Modi will step up a charm offensive with India's neighbours in the hope of stopping them falling into China's embrace when he travels next week to Bhutan on his first foreign trip. ...
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Narendra Modi sworn in as India’s new Prime Minister
26 May 2014
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India's Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister Monday with the strongest mandate of any leader for 30 years, promising to forge a "strong and inclusive" country. ...
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India PM tells Pakistan to stop ‘anti-India activity’
15 August 2013
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan on Thursday against using its soil for "anti-India activity", following a fresh escalation of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. ...
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India parliament attack plotter hanged, protests erupt
9 February 2013 | Abhaya Srivastava
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Kashmiri separatist Mohammed Afzal Guru, convicted of involvement in a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, was executed on Saturday in New Delhi, triggering protests. ...
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Ajmal Kasab hanged at Yerwada jail in Pune
21 November 2012
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Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, accused for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, was today hanged at Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7:30 am. ...