Emergency

Here is how to build an emergency fund on a tight budget

September 04, 2025 10:13 pm

Consistent savings, even in small amounts, in the right instruments, can help you create this reserve.

Over 1.07 cr sterilised during Emergency, exceeding target of 67.4 lakh: Govt

August 20, 2025 1:18 am

The government said sterilisation procedures exceeded targets by more than 59 per cent between 1975 and 1977.

'Interview was on day Emergency was revoked': Jaishankar recalls his UPSC journey

July 20, 2025 10:43 pm

Walking down memory lane, Jaishankar, then 22, said he had returned from the interview with two key takeaways -- the significance of communication under pressure and that important people may be living in a "bubble".

Shashi Tharoor criticises Emergency: 'Unchecked power' turned into 'authoritarianism'

July 10, 2025 4:38 pm

Shashi Tharoor criticised Indira Gandhi, often referred to by the Congress and the Nehru family as the "Iron Lady", for endorsing harsh actions during the Emergency.

US expands militarised zones to 1/3 of southern border, stirring controversy Columbus

July 04, 2025 12:25 pm

Orange no-entry signs posted by the US military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees.

'Will fight tooth and nail if any word is touched in Constitution': Kharge slams RSS leader over Preamble

June 30, 2025 10:37 pm

The row kicked off after Dattatreya Hosabale made a pitch for a discussion on whether the words "socialist" and "secular", inserted in the Preamble of the Constitution during the Emergency days, should continue to remain.

When Lok Sabha passed 42nd Amendment, Indira said: 'Secular, socialist in Preamble echo Constitution'

July 01, 2025 8:58 am

The legislation, brought during Emergency, got widespread support in the House, with a note of caution sounded by Independent MP P G Mavalankar, son of first Speaker G V Mavalankar

Shy of a ‘sorry’, Congress came to power again after Emergency, but never regained its authority

June 30, 2025 11:37 am

In 2021, Rahul Gandhi said the Emergency was a “mistake” and “wrong”, but quickly added that the Congress never tried “to capture institutional framework” which, he said, was happening now.

Nayantara Sahgal on the Emergency and her rift with cousin Indira Gandhi that never quite healed

June 29, 2025 8:36 am

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

Ex-ADM recalls Emergency: The night Delhi fell silent, fearing ‘something far-reaching’

June 28, 2025 10:57 am

Meenakshi Datta Ghosh, one of five ADMs posted in the Capital when the Emergency was imposed, recalls

Remembering Jayaprakash Narayan on 113th birth anniversary, here are some rare photos

October 11, 2015 9:06 pm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid rich tributes to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his 113 birth anniversary.

Vajpayee’s detractors said he had the backbone of a jellyfish, but I think that’s an unkind remark: Coomi Kapoor

June 22, 2020 6:18 pm

How and why was Vajpayee able to win allies and the Opposition alike? What was like to work with Vajpayee, the prime minister? What was his dream for the Indian subcontinent? Coomi Kapoor discuss all of this and more.

Kanhaiya's arrest similar to emergency situation: JNUTA President

February 14, 2016 3:19 pm

New Delhi, Feb 14 (ANI): Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) on Sunday said the arrest of JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar from the campus is similar to that of emergency. President of JNUTA, Ajay Patnaik said that the university has always opposed every kind of unconstitutional activity inside the campus. He further said that the institution provides space for debate and discussion and does not attend any kind of hooliganism.

Had Indira Gandhi not listened to Siddhartha Shankar Ray the emergency would not have happened

June 29, 2015 10:01 am

I hold three people responsible for making Sanjay Gandhi the unconstitutional authority: R K Dhawan

June 29, 2015 9:58 am

EXPLAINED | The Emergency and the significance of June 12

June 16, 2015 2:30 pm