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India’s Rahul Gandhi an ’empty suit’: US cable

Rahul Gandhi, tipped to be India's next prime minister, was regarded as an "an empty suit" when he was given his first major political...

Execution of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers postponed

Judges in Chennai on Tuesday delayed by two months the execution of three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister...

India to hang killers of Rajiv Gandhi next month

Three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi will be hanged early next month, a senior jail official...

Anti-graft drive threatens India’s ‘life force’: Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as India's prime minister-in-waiting, warned Friday that a fasting activist's popular anti-corruption campaign posed a threat to India's democratic "life...

Sonia Gandhi out of intensive care

The leader of India's ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, was out of intensive care on Saturday after undergoing successful surgery for an undisclosed ailment...

Gandhi family scion steps closer to power

The illness of Sonia Gandhi, India’s most powerful political leader, may have set off a risky succession that could propel her inexperienced son Rahul...

Sonia Gandhi recovering from ‘successful’ surgery

The leader of India's ruling party, Sonia Gandhi, was recovering Friday after undergoing "successful" surgery for an undisclosed medical condition in the United States,...

India’s Sonia Gandhi has surgery in US: spokesman

The president of India's ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, has undergone surgery in the United States, a party spokesman said Thursday. Janardhan Dwivedi declined to...

Gandhi’s glasses go missing from Indian museum

Gandhi's spectacles have reportedly gone missing from the Sevagram Ashram (museum) in Wardha, Maharashtra. The incident reportedly took place in February 2011 but came...

UP police arrest Rahul Gandhi

The Uttar Pradesh police took Indian Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi into preventive custody after he joined a land war in Bhatta Parsaul village,...

India furious over biography of ‘bisexual’ Gandhi

NEW DELHI - India could bring in legislation to jail anyone who insults Mahatma Gandhi while state governments are moving to ban a biography that reviewers said showed the "Father of the Nation" was bisexual. Gandhi led the campaign to end British colonial rule but lawmakers say his reputation is being besmirched by a new biography that suggests he had a homosexual affair with a German bodybuilder. "Mahatma Gandhi is revered by millions, not just in India but across the world. We

Rahul Gandhi seeks ‘stringent’ action on graft

NEW DELHI - Indian politician Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as a prime minister-in-waiting, on Saturday demanded "stringent" action against corruption amid a wave of scandals that have jolted the country.
A series of graft scandals erupted last year, including a massive telecoms licences scam that has undermined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as allegations of widespread corruption related to the Commonwealth Games. "Stringent action against corruption is needed.