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You are here: Home / Archives for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

No release for three of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ashok Sharma Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s top court on Thursday stopped the Tamil Nadu state government from releasing three of the seven prisoners serving life sentences for the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a lawyer said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Congress Party, India, Indira Gandhi, Jayaram Jayalalitha, Mohan Parasaran, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Rakesh Dwivedi, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

Indian women may hold a third of legislature seats

March 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government will present a bill to lawmakers on March 8 aimed at empowering the nation’s often-marginalized women by reserving one-third of legislative seats for them, a governing party spokesman said.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party, India, Indira Gandhi, International Women, Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister Singh, South Asian, Sushma Swaraj, Vol 29 No 11 | March 13 - March 19, poverty

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