Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday hit out at the opposition for not appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the surgical and air strikes on Pakistan and reminded them of the praise showered on Indira Gandhi by Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the victory in the 1971 war.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today condoled the death of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and said his passing away is a big loss to the country.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee favoured a dhoti and kurta teamed with a Jawahar jacket and chappals or slippers. On a police proforma that the government says is routinely filled by prominent politicians for security reasons, BJP leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are listed as Mr Vajpayee's close associates.

When President Barack Obama visits Agra to tour the Taj Mahal, he may stop at the five-star hotel where Pervez Musharraf stayed when he travelled to the city as Pakistan's president in 2001 for the summit with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Mehbooba Mufti, whose People's Democratic Party has emerged the largest group in Jammu and Kashmir after state polls, appeared to reach out to the BJP today as she repeatedly invoked former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's vision and said, "Prime Minister Modi has a big responsibility."

Campaigning in Kashmir days after serial terror attacks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached out to a large crowd in Srinagar invoking Atal Behari Vajpayee's famous words that he would seek a solution to the dispute within "Insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat and Jamhooriyat (humanity, the essence of being a Kashmiri, democracy)."

The Prime Minister today told his party's law-makers that December 25, the birthday of iconic BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, will be commemorated as "Good Governance Day".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told BJP MPs that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's birthday, which falls on December 25, would be observed as 'Good Governance Day'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the UN General Assembly session in Hindi and extempore, emulating his BJP's iconic leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, a former prime minister.

Omar Abdullah has said that he had resigned as a union minister after the 2002 Gujarat riots, but it was not accepted by then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Nine-year-old Sangeeta Porbadiya has recently received a new school bag from the government in Gujarat. The canvas satchel has a photo of iconic BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee; right next to it is a picture of Narendra Modi, the state's chief minister.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside a Central Information Commission's order to the Centre to reveal to it the communication between erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President K R Narayanan over the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday hit out at the opposition for not appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the surgical and air strikes on Pakistan and reminded them of the praise showered on Indira Gandhi by Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the victory in the 1971 war.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today condoled the death of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and said his passing away is a big loss to the country.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee favoured a dhoti and kurta teamed with a Jawahar jacket and chappals or slippers. On a police proforma that the government says is routinely filled by prominent politicians for security reasons, BJP leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are listed as Mr Vajpayee's close associates.

When President Barack Obama visits Agra to tour the Taj Mahal, he may stop at the five-star hotel where Pervez Musharraf stayed when he travelled to the city as Pakistan's president in 2001 for the summit with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Mehbooba Mufti, whose People's Democratic Party has emerged the largest group in Jammu and Kashmir after state polls, appeared to reach out to the BJP today as she repeatedly invoked former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's vision and said, "Prime Minister Modi has a big responsibility."

Campaigning in Kashmir days after serial terror attacks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached out to a large crowd in Srinagar invoking Atal Behari Vajpayee's famous words that he would seek a solution to the dispute within "Insaaniyat, Kashmiriyat and Jamhooriyat (humanity, the essence of being a Kashmiri, democracy)."

The Prime Minister today told his party's law-makers that December 25, the birthday of iconic BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, will be commemorated as "Good Governance Day".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told BJP MPs that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's birthday, which falls on December 25, would be observed as 'Good Governance Day'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the UN General Assembly session in Hindi and extempore, emulating his BJP's iconic leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, a former prime minister.

Omar Abdullah has said that he had resigned as a union minister after the 2002 Gujarat riots, but it was not accepted by then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Nine-year-old Sangeeta Porbadiya has recently received a new school bag from the government in Gujarat. The canvas satchel has a photo of iconic BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee; right next to it is a picture of Narendra Modi, the state's chief minister.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside a Central Information Commission's order to the Centre to reveal to it the communication between erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President K R Narayanan over the 2002 Gujarat riots.