Brajesh Mishra

Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brajesh Pathak today met the families of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Shubham Mishra and car driver Hari Om who were killed in the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

The worst outcome of this whole exercise has been that we ourselves have hyphenated India with Pakistan. It has taken a great deal by successive governments to kill the idea of that hyphenation.

Exclusive extracts from Barkha Dutt's just released book 'This Unquiet Land - Stories from India's Fault Lines'.

The CBI, which has charged former air force chief SP Tyagi with corruption and conspiracy in the VVIP chopper deal, has said in its First Information Report (FIR) that he and his three cousins were bribed 4,26,000 euros or Rs 2.98 crore to swing the contract for AugustaWestland.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said today the government is ready to discuss the deal in the House and even go for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe.

The Congress-led government wants to "divert attention from the real issue" by unnecessarily dragging the National Democratic Alliance into the Rs 4000-crore VVIP chopper deal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said today.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded that the investigation into the Rs 4,000-crore deal to buy helicopters for VVIPs be held under the supervision of the Supreme Court.

Chopper deal: With the government under fire for the Italian chopper deal now being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Congress-led UPA has sought to underscore that the tender for the deal was tweaked in 2003, when the BJP was in power at the Centre, with Brajesh Mishra as its National Security Advisor or NSA.

The last rites of Brajesh Mishra, the country's first National Security Advisor who died following a heart ailment, will be held on Monday.

India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra died in the national capital on Friday night. Principal Secretary in the BJP-led NDA government, Mr Mishra was known as former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's confidante. During the NDA regime, Mr Mishra was considered as one of the most powerful people in the Prime Minister's Office.

Indian Airlines flight IC 814 on its way back to Delhi from Kathmandu was hijacked by 5 Pakistani hijackers on December 24, 1999.

Former NSA Brajesh Mishra has come out in support of the expelled BJP leader.

After senior leader Jaswant Singh, the NDA's former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra has criticised his BJP's campaign going into elections.

Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brajesh Pathak today met the families of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Shubham Mishra and car driver Hari Om who were killed in the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

The worst outcome of this whole exercise has been that we ourselves have hyphenated India with Pakistan. It has taken a great deal by successive governments to kill the idea of that hyphenation.

Exclusive extracts from Barkha Dutt's just released book 'This Unquiet Land - Stories from India's Fault Lines'.

The CBI, which has charged former air force chief SP Tyagi with corruption and conspiracy in the VVIP chopper deal, has said in its First Information Report (FIR) that he and his three cousins were bribed 4,26,000 euros or Rs 2.98 crore to swing the contract for AugustaWestland.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said today the government is ready to discuss the deal in the House and even go for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe.

The Congress-led government wants to "divert attention from the real issue" by unnecessarily dragging the National Democratic Alliance into the Rs 4000-crore VVIP chopper deal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said today.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded that the investigation into the Rs 4,000-crore deal to buy helicopters for VVIPs be held under the supervision of the Supreme Court.

Chopper deal: With the government under fire for the Italian chopper deal now being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Congress-led UPA has sought to underscore that the tender for the deal was tweaked in 2003, when the BJP was in power at the Centre, with Brajesh Mishra as its National Security Advisor or NSA.

The last rites of Brajesh Mishra, the country's first National Security Advisor who died following a heart ailment, will be held on Monday.

India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra died in the national capital on Friday night. Principal Secretary in the BJP-led NDA government, Mr Mishra was known as former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's confidante. During the NDA regime, Mr Mishra was considered as one of the most powerful people in the Prime Minister's Office.

Indian Airlines flight IC 814 on its way back to Delhi from Kathmandu was hijacked by 5 Pakistani hijackers on December 24, 1999.

Former NSA Brajesh Mishra has come out in support of the expelled BJP leader.

After senior leader Jaswant Singh, the NDA's former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra has criticised his BJP's campaign going into elections.