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Indira Gandhi

Personal data
Date of birth19 November 1917
Place of birthAllahabad, United Provinces, British India
Date of death31 October 1984(age 66)
Place of deathNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseFeroze Gandhi
ChildrenRajiv Gandhi
Sanjay Gandhi
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
ReligionHinduism
Adi Dharm
Prime Minister of India
In office14 January 1980 - 31 October 1984
PresidentNeelam Sanjiva Reddy
Giani Zail Singh
Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
Preceded byChoudhary Charan Singh
In office24 January 1966 - 24 March 1977
PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Zakir Hussain
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Succeeded byMorarji Desai
Preceded byGulzarilal Nanda
Minister of External Affairs
In office9 March 1984 - 31 October 1984
Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
Preceded byNarasimha Rao
In office22 August 1967 - 14 March 1969
Succeeded byDinesh Singh
Preceded byMahommedali Currim Chagla
Minister of Finance
In office26 June 1970 - 29 April 1971
Succeeded byYashwantrao Chavan
Preceded byMorarji Desai

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī; née: Nehru; 19 November 1917 � 31 October 1984) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. She is India's only female prime minister to date . She is the world's all time longest serving female Prime Minister.

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Gymnasts continue to shine - Sportal.com.au Tweet this news
Sportal.com.au---...- 14.675 in his routine in the men's final to narrowly beat England's Reiss Beckford (14.625) and India's Ashish Kumar (14.475) at -Indira Gandhi- Stadium. ... - Date : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:54:01 GMT+00:00
Anna a picture of contentment - Sydney Morning Herald Tweet this news
Sydney Morning Herald--Meares, 27, wrapped up her golden Games campaign with a third gold medal in Delhi in the women's sprint at the -Indira Gandhi- Sports Complex on Thursday. ... - Date : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:35:42 GMT+00:00
Commonwealth Games / Cycling: Azizul's lost gold goes to Josiah - New Straits Times Tweet this news
New Straits Times--Josiah Ng celebrates after the keirin final at the -Indira Gandhi- Velodrome yesterday. Josiah, who finished second, was handed the gold medal after Azizul ... - Date : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:18:54 GMT+00:00
Madhuri Dixit was Finalized to Play the Role of Indira Gandhi - Stock Market Today Tweet this news
Stock Market Today--by chandra Filmmaker Krishna Shah's plan to make a film on India's late Prime Minister -Indira Gandhi- is pending since the last one year. ... - Date : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:32:41 GMT+00:00
Fistful of gold within reach - Sydney Morning Herald Tweet this news
Sydney Morning Herald---...- favourite in three apparatus finals, including her pet events the beam and floor on the final night of artistic action at -Indira Gandhi- Indoor Stadium. ... - Date : Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:11:02 GMT+00:00
Deposited articles go missing at Games venues? - Sify Tweet this news
Sify--Yes, says Sandeep Nagpal, who deposited his lunch box at the gate before entering the cycling velodrome at the -Indira Gandhi- Stadium complex. ... - Date : Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:15:37 GMT+00:00
Aussie men seek first team gold - Sydney Morning Herald Tweet this news
Sydney Morning Herald--England will start favourites for the event at -Indira Gandhi- Indoor Stadium, while Canada will also be a contender along with the five-man Australian team ... - Date : Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:57:44 GMT+00:00
No breeze for track cyclists - Sydney Morning Herald Tweet this news
Sydney Morning Herald--During the Australian team's two training sessions at the -Indira Gandhi- Sports Complex where the track cycling events will be held, officials have cranked ... - Date : Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:41:37 GMT+00:00
From next year, pursue B.Ed in combo with BA or BSc - Indian Express Tweet this news
Indian Express---...- once it gets the nod of the academic councils of select universities," VN Rajashekharan Pillai, VC of -Indira Gandhi- National Open University, told said. ... - Date : Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:39:33 GMT+00:00
Indira Gandhi Matri Sahayog Encourgaes Healthy Mother and Child - VoiceofSikkim Tweet this news
VoiceofSikkim--1 Oct, Rinchengpong: A new scheme called the -Indira Gandhi- Matri Sahayog is now being implemented under the ICDS. Addressing the technical session on ... - Date : Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:12:57 GMT+00:00

Party political offices
Preceded by
Uchharangrai Navalshankar Dhebar
President of the Indian National Congress
1959
Succeeded by
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Preceded by
Dev Kant Baruah
President of the Indian National Congress
1978 - 1984
Succeeded by
Rajiv Gandhi
Political offices
Preceded by
Gulzarilal Nanda
Prime Minister of India
1966 - 1977
Succeeded by
Morarji Desai
Preceded by
Mahommedali Currim Chagla
Minister of External Affairs
1967 - 1969
Succeeded by
Dinesh Singh
Preceded by
Morarji Desai
Minister of Finance
1970 - 1971
Succeeded by
Yashwantrao Chavan
Preceded by
Choudhary Charan Singh
Prime Minister of India
1980 - 1984
Succeeded by
Rajiv Gandhi
Preceded by
Narasimha Rao
Minister of External Affairs
1984


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Bharat Ratna laureates

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) * C. Rajagopalachari (1954) * C. V. Raman (1954) * Bhagwan Das (1955) * Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya (1955) * Jawaharlal Nehru (1955) * Govind Ballabh Pant (1957) * Dhondo Keshav Karve (1958) * Bidhan Chandra Roy (1961) * Purushottam Das Tandon (1961) * Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1962) * Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963) * Pandurang Vaman Kane (1963) * Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) * Indira Gandhi (1971) * V. V. Giri (1975) * K. Kamaraj (1976) * Mother Teresa (1980) * Acharya Vinoba Bhave (1983) * Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) * M. G. Ramachandran (1988) * B. R. Ambedkar (1990) * Nelson Mandela (1990) * Rajiv Gandhi (1991) * Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1991) * Morarji Desai (1991) * Abul Kalam Azad (1992) * J. R. D. Tata (1992) * Satyajit Ray (1992) * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1997) * Gulzarilal Nanda (1997) * Aruna Asaf Ali (1997) * M. S. Subbulakshmi (1998) * Chidambaram Subramaniam (1998) * Jayaprakash Narayan (1998) * Ravi Shankar (1999) * Amartya Sen (1999) * Gopinath Bordoloi (1999) * Lata Mangeshkar (2001) * Bismillah Khan (2001) * Bhimsen Joshi (2008)



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