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HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 27 March 2025
Thursday, March 27 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore the culture of Delhi-NCR. Before you plan your day, must check out HT City Delhi Junction!
Published on Mar 26, 2025 09:00 PM IST
‘Sarfira’: Ashok Gehlot slams Mani Shankar Aiyar for Rajiv Gandhi remark
Ashok Gehlot said with his remark, Aiyar showed the height of frustration.
Published on Mar 06, 2025 08:20 PM IST
Review: ‘A Maverick in Politics’ by Mani Shankar Aiyar
The last volume of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s autobiographical trilogy, that looks at the period from 1991 to 2024, presents a candid account of the various stages of his political life
Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:23 PM IST
Vinod C Khanna
India should allow Sheikh Hasina to stay for as long as she wants, says Aiyar
Sheikh Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her 16-year regime.
Published on Jan 12, 2025 11:18 AM IST
PTI |
‘If Pranab was made PM, Manmohan as President in 2012…’: Aiyar in tell-all book
Aiyar claimed several crises, particularly Anna Hazare's 'India Against Corruption' movement, “were either not handled effectively or not handled at all”
Published on Dec 15, 2024 09:04 PM IST
‘My political career made, unmade by Gandhis’, says Cong's Mani Shankar Aiyar
Mani Shankar Aiyar claimed that if Pranab Mukherjee was made PM in 2012, the Congress would have lost the 2014 LS polls, but not by a massive margin
Updated on Dec 15, 2024 07:01 PM IST
Morning briefing: Cong clarifies stance on Aiyar's China remark; more news
A shortlist of the biggest headlines, recommended stories, and a special collection of news items you should check out.
Published on May 30, 2024 09:07 AM IST
‘Who is Mani Shankar Aiyar?’: Jairam Ramesh on ‘China invasion’ remark
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar sparked a row with his comments on Chinese allegedly invading India in October 1962.
Published on May 30, 2024 06:30 AM IST
HT News Desk | Written by Vaishnawi Sinha
‘Attack on integrity of India’: BJP attacks Mani Shankar Aiyar over India-China war remark
Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia in Delhi recently, Aiyar referred to the 1962 India-China war as “alleged Chinese invasion”
Published on May 29, 2024 03:44 PM IST
Chinese ‘allegedly invaded’ India in 1962: Mani Shankar sparks row, Cong reacts
Jairam Ramesh of Congress pointed out that Mani Shankar Aiyar has subsequently apologised, and that the party distances itself from the “original phraseology”.
Updated on May 29, 2024 12:30 PM IST
Can an elite-subaltern dialogue save the cause of secularism in India?
BJP’s current crop of leaders must be grateful to their predecessors for realising that the project of building a Hindu society had to be more representative
Published on May 17, 2024 09:21 PM IST
PM Modi reacts to Mani Shankar Aiyar's remark, says Pakistan ‘selling its bombs’
The Congress dissociated itself from Mani Shankar Aiyar's remark, claiming that the BJP was trying to deflect attention from PM Modi's "goof ups".
Updated on May 11, 2024 02:32 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari
‘Cong threatening India with Pak's atom bomb’: Amit Shah slams remarks on PoK
Amit Shah has slammed remarks of Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah.
Published on May 10, 2024 06:39 PM IST
Congress apologist for Pakistan: BJP slams Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks
Distancing itself from Aiyar’s remarks, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said that Aiyar “does not speak for the party in any capacity whatsoever”
Updated on May 10, 2024 02:56 PM IST
Akshita Kumari
Mani Shankar Aiyar's ‘respect Pak’ remark prompts BJP's ‘Rahul’s ideology' jab
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar urged the Indian government to respect Pakistan, else it may have a heavy price to pay.
Updated on May 10, 2024 12:43 PM IST
HT News Desk | Written by Vaishnawi Sinha
Review: The Rajiv I Knew by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Mani Shankar Aiyar worked constructively with Rajiv Gandhi over a long period. Consequently, his book reveals several sides to the former prime minister
Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:53 PM IST
Chinmaya R Gharekhan
In Lahore, Mani Shankar Aiyar lauds hospitality of Pakistanis, criticises Modi
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar was addressing a crowd on the second day of the Faiz Festival at Alhamra in Pakistan's Lahore.
Published on Feb 12, 2024 12:25 PM IST
Mani Shankar Aiyar, daughter get stern RWA warning over Ram mandir post
In her January 20 Facebook post, Suranya Aiyar had said she is protesting against the Ram mandir ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony
Updated on Jan 31, 2024 06:28 PM IST
'Centre's double standards': Congress leader on Mahua Moitra, Bidhuri episodes
The former union minister said on Sunday that the current government is employing different yardsticks in dealing with the two episodes.
Published on Nov 06, 2023 10:53 AM IST
Ruminations on a maverick’s career
Mani Shankar Aiyar's autobiography is long-winded at first, but becomes a gripping narrative with valuable insights into Pakistan and India's foreign service
Published on Aug 26, 2023 10:21 PM IST
Why are we targetting Pakistani people, asks Mani Shankar Aiyar: 'Until Modi...'
Pakistan's people don't see India as an enemy country and they have overall goodwill for India, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said.
Updated on Aug 23, 2023 09:57 AM IST
‘Sent back to pavilion, ready to bat if called,’ says Cong's Mani Shankar Aiyar
In Dec 2017, Aiyar was suspended from the party for calling PM Narendra Modi a ‘neech aadmi.’ The suspension was revoked in Aug 2018.
Published on Aug 21, 2023 06:11 PM IST
HT News Desk, New Delhi
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is an extraordinarily honest memoir by politician Mani Shankar Aiyar, a volume that examines the actions of the judiciary and its relationship with the government, and a book of poems that brings to life the struggles and accomplishments of India’s first female physician
Updated on Aug 18, 2023 08:24 PM IST
HT Team
Mani Shankar Aiyar hurls ‘tukde’ jibe at Sangh Parivar. BJP hits back
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar is known for his controversial remarks in the past.
Updated on Dec 28, 2022 11:55 PM IST
HT News Desk | Written by Aryan Prakash
'India has become slave of US', says Manishankar Aiyar at Indo-Russian event
Manishankar Aiyar's comments come weeks before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India. Ahead of Putin's visit on December 6, the defence ministry has cleared over ₹5,000 crore deal with Russia to manufacture 7.5 lakh AK-203 assault rifles in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi.
Published on Nov 24, 2021 07:57 AM IST
hindustantimes.com | Written by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Jumbo committees have no adverse impact on Congress party in TN says Mani Shankar Aiyar
The comments by Aiyar, who has been named in several key poll-related panels of the Congress’ Tamil Nadu unit, come days after Congress MP Karti Chidambaram raised questions over the state unit rejig, saying such “jumbo committees” serve no purpose as no one will have any authority which would mean “no accountability”.
Published on Jan 07, 2021 01:30 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India | Posted by Srivatsan K C
The Taste with Vir: The coarsening of political discourse
Social media and news channels have made it okay to shout, fight and abuse.
Updated on Jun 25, 2020 10:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Vir Sanghvi
‘Look at these cowards’: Congress’ Mani Shankar Aiyar takes a jab at Centre’s J&K outreach
A team of 36 Union ministers are in Jammu and Kashmir from January 18 to attend government functions in different parts of the Union territory. Of these, five ministers will visit the three districts of Kashmir.
Updated on Jan 21, 2020 09:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Brunch bookmarks: Lending an ear to the echoes of the past
Historian Vikram Sampath finds joy telling stories of the forgotten and the maligned
Updated on Oct 26, 2019 09:50 PM IST
Hindustan Timea | Veenu Singh
Non-Gandhi can lead Cong but family key to party, says Mani Shankar Aiyar
“The BJP’s objective is to have a ‘Gandhi-mukt Congress’ so as to have a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’, he claimed.
Published on Jun 23, 2019 11:05 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
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