India's highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former PM Rajiv Gandhi, was on Friday rechristened in the honour of hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, following the admirable performance of both men's and women's hockey teams in the Tokyo Olympics. The Khel Ratna award is the highest sporting honour in the nation. You must login to keep earning daily check-in points.
Lifetime 0 Expired 0 Redeemed 0. Total redeemable TimesPoints 0. Fri, Nov 12, Updated Notification Center. News » rajiv gandhi. Thus, he got into politics and associated with the Congress party eventually. During his tenure as the PM, Rajiv had a controversy-stricken period journey.
Among others, the greatest crisis was caused by the Shah Bano case and Bhopal disaster. In he was assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE militant group while he was campaigning for elections. In the same year, Government of India posthumously awarded Rajiv Gandhi with the country's highest civilian award - Bharat Ratna. Chhattisgarh: 21 lakh farmers received third installment of Rs 1, cr under govt's flagship scheme. Why Delhi high court notice to Election Commission on party polls is music for G Chandigarh Housing Board seeks clarification on collector rates.
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Jayewardene, in Colombo on 29 July The very next day, on 30 July , Rajiv Gandhi was assaulted on the head with a rifle butt by a young Sinhalese naval cadet named Vijayamunige Rohana de Silva, while receiving the honour guard. The intended assault on the back of Rajiv Gandhi's head however glanced off his shoulder.
Though the embarrassed Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene initially attempted to pass off the bizarre assault as "Rajiv tripped a little and slightly lost his balance", Rajiv Gandhi while en route to New Delhi asserted to J. Dixit "Of course, I was hit. With his speech while addressing the Joint Session of the US Congress and India, he famously said, "India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere, we are impatient.
I am young and I too have a dream. I dream of an India, strong, independent, self reliant and in the forefront of the front ranks of the nations of the world in the service of mankind.
Economic policy He increased government support for science and technology and associated industries, and reduced import quotas, taxes and tariffs on technology-based industries, especially computers, airlines, defence and telecommunications. He introduced measures significantly reducing the License Raj, allowing businesses and individuals to purchase capital, consumer goods and import without bureaucratic restrictions.
In , he announced a National Policy on Education to modernize and expand higher education programs across India. He founded the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya System in which is a Central government based institution that concentrates on the upliftment of the rural section of the society providing them free residential education from 6th till 12 grade. Assassination Rajiv Gandhi's last public meeting was at Sriperumbudur on 21 May , in a village approximately 30 miles from Madras, Tamil Nadu, where he was assassinated while campaigning for the Sriperumbudur Lok Sabha Congress candidate.
At p. She then bent down to touch his feet an expression of respect among Indians and detonated a belt laden with grams of RDX explosive tucked under her dress. The former Prime Minister along with many others were killed in the explosion that followed. The assassination was caught on film through the lens of a local photographer, whose camera and film were found at the site.
The cameraman himself also died in the blast but the camera remained intact. The Rajiv Gandhi Memorial was built at the site recently and is one of the major tourist attractions to the small industrial town.
However, it should be noted that the Rajiv Gandhi administration had already antagonised other Tamil militant organisations like PLOTE for reversing the military coup in Maldives back in The judgment further cites the death of Thileepan in a hunger strike and the suicide by 12 LTTE cadres in a vessel in Oct In the Jain Commission report, various people and agencies are named as suspected of having been involved in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. Among them, the cleric Chandraswami was suspected of involvement, including financing the assassination.
The interim report of the Jain Commission created a storm when it accused Karunanidhi of a role in the assassination, leading to Congress withdrawing its support for the I.
Rajiv Gandhi, who served as the seventh Prime Minister of India from to , was born on August 20, At the age of 40, he became the youngest Prime Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India when he was He became the youngest Prime Minister of the country and sworn-in on October 31, , the same day his mother was assassinated by her own bodyguards.
Rajiv Gandhi was also a keen photographer.
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