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Twenty years ago, India scripted a success story on May 11 and May 13, 1998 when five nuclear tests were performed in Rajasthan''s Pokhran under the leadership of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had taken office only a little while ago.

"Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a great man, I cannot see the values he had in anyone today," said National Conference president Farooq Abdullah.

The Supreme Court today said it would hear in October a plea by one of the convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, regarding the status of probe by the CBI-led Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) into conspiracy behind the murder.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was hospitalised at Delhi's AIIMS hospital for nine weeks, died yesterday. He was 93. In a moving tribute, Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, called him "a product of parliamentary democracy" who valued consensus. In a Facebook blog, Mr Jaitley penned down a heartfelt note for the 3 time prime minister.

The 93-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Atal Bihari Vajpayee died at 5:05 pm on Thursday at All India Institute of Medical Science following a prolonged illness.

The Centre must decide whether water should be released from the Mullaperiyar dam -- over which Kerala and Tamil Nadu are at loggerheads - the Supreme Court said today. The court, however, asked the Tamil Nadu government to obey the order of the panel appointed by the Centre to take a call on the dam's water level.

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The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), the country's apex body to handle emergency situation, met for the second time in two days today and directed to mobilise additional resources to all agencies who were engaged in rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Kerala.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, born in Gwalior on Christmas Day 1924, had a sweet connect with the city. The laddoos from Gwalior's famous Bahadura Sweets came to be known as the 'Passport to PM', not without reason. Vikas Sharma, the 47-year-old owner of the shop, says whenever the former prime minister came visiting, he would go for the laddoo.

In 1945, when a 21-year-old Atal Bihari Vajpayee enrolled in a Kanpur college to study law, he had a classmate who was already retired after serving 30 years as a teacher.

Leaders from across the world including US and Russia have expressed grief over the death of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and recalled his contributions in strengthening bilateral relations and maintaining regional peace.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee called me Rasraj, says Pandit Jasraj Mumbai, Aug 17 (PTI) The late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a connoisseur of poetry and music, was a fan of the 88-year-old Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj and called him 'Rasraj' (King of Rasas).

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee featured a slice of nostalgia from nearly two decades ago. Showering praise on the BJP icon who died at Delhi's AIIMS hospital yesterday, Mr Yadav shared a picture of Mr Vajpayee blessing him and wife Dimple Yadav on their wedding in November 1999.

Four civilians were injured today in a grenade attack by terrorists on a police installation in Awantipora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.

The Supreme Court today asked the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) and a sub-committee set up by Kerala to deal with the flood situation in the state to coordinate and explore the possibility of reducing the water level at the Mullaperiyar Dam by three feet.