At the stroke of midnight, the President of India signed a document sent by then prime minister Indira Gandhi. It said, 'In ...

On this day 50 years ago, then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency, suspending rights and jailing rivals.

On this day in 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked special constitutional powers to declare a national emergency. It ...

Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency following Jayaprakash Narayan's call for disobedience of unconstitutional orders, a move ...

If my elder sister does something wrong, it’s my duty to write against that', says Sahgal, 98, at her home in Dehradun ...

The immediate trigger for Gandhi’s drastic step was a decision of the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that disqualified her from ...

India witnessed the beginning of 21 months of the Emergency imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Fifty years after ...

During the Emergency, over 200 journalists were jailed, press was censored, and news agencies merged as Indira Gandhi clamped ...

In a little-known episode from the Emergency era, former prime minister Indira Gandhi quietly donated a significant sum of Rs ...

With the opposition energized and her legitimacy dented, Indira Gandhi decided to declare an Emergency. There was indeed an emergency already in place from the time of the 1971 war against Pakistan.

In May 1974, the arrest of George Fernandes in Lucknow ignited a nationwide railway strike, protesting poor wages and ...