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Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao will be awarded with the prestigious Bharat Ratna, as announced by Prime Minister Modi in a tweet on X. He served as the Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is renowned for reforming India’s economy.

The Central Government has announced that the late political leader Chaudhary Charan Singh will be conferred with the prestigious Bharat Ratna award. He was the 5^th Prime Minister of India. He served his term from 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980.

Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is imprisoned, and recently an additional 10 years of prison sentence was announced regarding the cipher case. Imran Khan is counted among the wealthiest political leaders in Pakistan. He transitioned into politics from cricket. During his tenure as Prime Minister, he faced allegations of corruption.

Priyanka Gandhi is an Indian politician. She is the daughter of Sonia Gandhi, the former President of INC, and Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India. On 23 January 2019, she was appointed as the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress for handling operations in Uttar Pradesh.

Lal Bahadur Shastri endured through difficult circumstances early in his life. He even had to engage in part-time jobs for livelihood during his tenure as an MP. Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri is remembered for his honesty and simplicity.

The former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh served as a professor of Economics at Punjab University and the Delhi School of Economics. The 13^th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee worked as a professor of Political Science in a college in Kolkata.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the former Prime Minister of India. In 1957, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the first time from Balrampur constituency. In 1980, he laid the foundation of Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the President of the party for the first five years.

The newly discovered technique avoids using hazardous agents in the production of activated carbon, making the product both cost-effective and non-toxic.

On the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Gandhi, let’s revisit the Shah Bano case, in which he enacted a law to effectively invalidate the verdict of the top court to appease a section of the minority  

Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not like the idea of renovation of the Somnath temple

MJ Akbar takes us through the historic blunders by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and how we are still paying price for his submissiveness to China  
 

Let’s look at an interesting case in which former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was indicted that led to the imposition of emergency.

Tajinder Bagga, BJP leader from Delhi has blamed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for the Sikh genocide that took place in 1984.

In 2019, a controversy erupted after Congress party vehemently opposed Conferring India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, to one of India’s greatest heroes Veer Savarkar. It was during that time a letter written by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi referring Veer Savarkar as a ‘remarkable son of India’ surfaced on social media. In a letter dated May 30, 1980, Indira Gandhi wrote to Pandit Bakhle, then secretary of Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, expressing her reverence for one of India’s greatest freedom fighters Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Watch this video to find out more about the letter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the mega scheme of ‘Atal Bhujal Yojana’ on the occasion of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary. It's the most joyful time of the year and seems like Bollywood celebrities are having a blast! Stars wished their fans on social media as they got wrapped in some Christmas spirit. Do not miss the headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.