In another move that is likely to widen his rift with the Congress leadership, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor has written an article on the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in ...

I write this as India marks the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Emergency, during which the Constitution itself was weaponised to create a dictatorship. My father, Arun Jaitley, took great pride in being ...

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday took a jibe at the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the BJP after NCERT introduced a topic on the 1975 Emergency in a Class 9 textbook, stating that former ...

Fifty years ago, on June 25, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, citing a threat to internal security, imposed an Emergency on the country. In the 21 months that followed, thousands of opposition ...

The Emergency declared by the then-prime minister Indira Gandhi on 25 June 1975, marked a dark chapter in India’s democratic history. For 21 months, the government suspended civil liberties, majorly ...

NCERT: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has added the topic of the Emergency period of 1975-77 to its Class 9 Social Science textbook. This move has come in light of ...

Activist and Swaraj India founder Yogendra Yadav countered union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's remarks on the NCERT including a reference to the 1975 Emergency in its textbook. Responding to ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday condemned the 1975 Emergency and detailed how citizens' basic freedoms were taken away at the time. He also highlighted in an op-ed titled — Heeding the Lessons ...

Calling the Emergency years a "dark chapter", the BJP on Thursday backed NCERT’s decision to introduce a section on the 1975 period in Class 9 social science textbooks. The party said the Emergency ...

New Delhi: NCERT has added the 1975-77 National Emergency to the Class 9 Social Science syllabus for the first time, bringing a major chapter of India’s political history to students much earlier than ...

NCERT on Thursday released a Class IX social science textbook carrying content on the Emergency, coinciding with the government’s observance of “Samvidhaan Hatya Divas” to highlight the excesses of ...