The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards.

From Indira Gandhi to Kalpana Chawla, here are inspiring Indian women who broke barriers in politics, sports, space, mountaineering, and the judiciary.

“Emergency,” written, directed and produced by Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, has set a release date. The film focuses on one of the most controversial periods of post-Independence Indian history from ...

Lewis M. Simons is a Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time Pulitzer finalist. His most recent book is To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent, which includes a foreword by the Dalai Lama.

The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) on Tuesday (Nov 25) asked the Southeast Asian nation's police chief to immediately enforce a court order to locate the daughter of Indian-origin Hindu ...

There is no doubt that Indira Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, and Sunil Gavaskar were the dominant figures in India’s public life in the 1970s. However, there is something else that makes these ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt becoming one of the ...