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unusual facts about Indian prime minister



Elmar Rajsur

In November 2007 he performed half to the visiting Indian delegation accompanying Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on his 28-hour visit to Russia.

Foreign relations of Afghanistan

During Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's May 2011 visit to Kabul, it was announced that India's total aid to Afghanistan reached $2 billion after a package of $500 million was added.

Kalpana-1

On February 5, 2003 it was renamed to Kalpana-1 by the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in memory of Kalpana Chawla—a NASA astronaut who perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Khaleel Chishty

BJP, the main Indian opposition party expressed its dismay at a judge writing to the Prime Minister for securing the release of a Pakistani prisoner in his individual capacity.

Mission 90 Days

It is Major Ravi's second directorial venture and is based on the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the following investigation.

Sonam Topgay Dorji

On April 23, 1948, Topgay Dorji headed the Bhutanese delegation to recently independent India, meeting Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.


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1988 Maldives coup d'état

Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi immediately dispatched 1,600 troops by air to restore order in Malé.

Bra bomb

Most notable high profile attack would be the suicide attack by Thenmuli Rajaratnam wearing a belt with explosives or a bra bomb used in the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Gah, Pakistan

In October 2012, TERI—a research institute from India set up a mini grid of solar power as a mark of goodwill to the birthplace of the Indian Prime Minister.

Geeta Vadhera

In the late 1980s Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dreamed up the grand scale "Apna Utsav" - a festival to showcase the best of the Indian arts to the urban Indian audience.

Givi Javakhishvili

He also hosted high profile foreign guests in Tbilisi, such as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen of Denmark Margrethe II, French President Georges Pompidou, Shah of Iran Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and many other prominent figures of the 20th Century.

Haridwar Singh

He has worked with several Indian Prime Minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, P. V. Narasimha Rao and Indira Gandhi.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group

Named after Rajiv Gandhi, the late Indian Prime Minister and Imperial College alumnus, the Centre provides channels of knowledge and exchange between India and its global partners by effective integration of research and education.

J. R. Jayewardene

Jayewardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi finally concluded the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, which provided for devolution of powers to Tamil dominated regions, an Indian peacekeeping force in the north, and the demobilization of the LTTE.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

N. S. Madhavan

When Big Trees Fall, a short story by Madhavan, is about the homicidal attacks on the Sikhs that occurred following the 1984 assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and has been filmed as the Hindi movie, Kaya Taran by Sashi Kumar in 2004.

Rail transport in Bhutan

On January 25, 2005, the King and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to carry out a feasibility study for rail links.

South Asian University

At the Thirteenth SAARC Summit held in Dhaka, in November 2005, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh proposed the establishment of a South Asian University to provide world-class facilities and professional faculty to students and researchers from SAARC member countries.

Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala prayer controversy

Representative Sherrod Brown of Ohio invited Samuldrala to offer the opening prayer on September 14, 2000, to coincide with an address to a joint session of Congress by the Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee (this was the first time a sitting Indian Prime Minister had made such an address).