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

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

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

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

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

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

Some continued to wield political power even after the Emergency, others had their children enter politics & there are even ...

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

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

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

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