PM leads nation in remembering Gandhi, Shastri

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil on Thursday greeted the people on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, which will be celebrated tomorrow. In her message from Gandhinagar, where she is currently on a visit to Gujarat, President Patil said: "Gandhi Jayanti is an occasion for all of us to reflect on the life and work of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi." "Whenever I remember Bapuji, particularly on this day, I am always overwhelmed by his leadership, philosophy and values.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A watch gifted to late prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri during the historic Tashkent conference in 1966 has been stolen from a building named after him, police said Wednesday. Thieves broke into the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial here on Sep 3 and fled with the golden watch, police said.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Days after reports of a burglary from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, thieves struck again in the Lutyen's Delhi, when a watch belonging to late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was stolen by unidentified miscreants from the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial in national capital. The watch had historic significance as it was gifted to Shastri by his Russian counterpart Alexei Kosygin during the Tashkent conference in 1966.

July 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Noted journalist and commentator Kuldip Nayar has asked the government to declassify documents relating to the January 1966 death of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent. According to an official announcement Shastri expired due to a massive heart attack on January 11 at 1.32 a.m.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Monday reaffirmed that it was in alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), days after a senior leader said the party should go it alone in the Maharashtra assembly elections. "The Congress and the NCP are in alliance since 1999.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior Congress leader has said the party should fight the assembly elections in Maharashtra alone rather than in alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). In the latest issue of Congress mouthpiece Sandesh, its editor Anil Shastri, who is also a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), said: A larger chunk of Congresspersons in Maharashtra want to go it alone in the coming assembly elections.

June 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Meira Kumar, the country's first woman and Dalit speaker, Saturday paid homage to national leaders including Mahatma Gandhi at their memorials here. She along with her family members visited all the 14 memorials of national leaders including Raj Ghat, Samata Sthal, Vijay Ghat, Shanti Van, Shakti Sthal, and Veer Bhumi, said Lok Sabha secretariat officials.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi led the nation to pay homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 18th death anniversary today. Sonia Gandhi was among the first to arrive at Veerbhmi, the memorial of the charismatic leader.

May 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh has once again set a record of sending the maximum number of tainted MPs to the Lok Sabha - 31 of the state's 80 MPs have criminal cases pending against them. Out of these 31, as many as 22 have serious criminal charges against them, according to figures released by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an umbrella organisation of NGOs that monitors elections.

May 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was Saturday leading over his rivals in Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, officials counting votes polled in the Lok Sabha election said.

April 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Raising the academic standards in Uttar Pradesh and transforming it into an education hub are the electoral promises of Congress Lok Sabha candidate for Fatehpur seat, Vibhakar Shastri, the grandson of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. 'Although it's true that of late several education institutions have come up in Uttar Pradesh, in terms of imparting quality education the state is still lagging behind,'' Shastri told IANS over phone from Fatehpur Wednesday.

April 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - Congress leader and former union minister Anil Shastri Monday claimed that by raising the issue of black money stacked in foreign banks, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani has alerted his own people so that they can shift their money from these banks.

April 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - Congress leader and former union minister Anil Shastri Monday claimed that by raising the issue of black money stacked in foreign banks, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani has alerted his own people so that they can shift their money from these banks.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of Water Resources Saifuddin Soz on Monday expressed his condolences over the passing away of veteran Dogri writer and litterateur Prof. Ram Nath Shastri in Jammu on Sunday night.

January 20th, 2009 JAIPUR - Paying tributes to the police officials who laid down their lives fighting terrorists in Mumbai, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wednesday said the nation should never forget these heroes. The country had given these personnel little, but they made supreme sacrifice for the country, Gandhi said, adding: 'We should never forget these heroes.' Gandhi was addressing a conference on 'police performance and public perception' at the Rajasthan Police Academy auditorium here during his daylong visit to the city.