40 Years News

40 years ago September 8, 1986: Dead and injured arrive

40 years ago September 7, 1986: Pan Am aircraft hijack

The Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, called upon non-aligned countries to work out a package of measures to help frontline states meet the aggression by the South African government. He ordered India s full support for the measures to end apartheid

Opposition parties in Pakistan launched a countrywide indefinite agitation against the government crackdown on them and to overthrow President Zia-ul-Haq. Government and opposition supporters fought hand-to-hand in the streets and the police fired shotguns at

The Centre has extended the operation of Article 249 to J&K. This was done secretly a fortnight ago by amending the Presidential Order of 1954, which extended the Constitution to the state

New Delhi, Actor Khushbu Sundar went down memory lane as she shared pictures of her first South film "Kaliyga Pandavuulu", which has completed 40 years of release. The film released in 1986 and also starred Daggubati Venkatesh alongside the actor

The Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, said that terrorism could be tackled through political means and by gearing up the police and other law-and-order machinery. Gandhi was asked whether terrorism, which was spreading to other parts of the country, could be resol

The former Army chief, Gen Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya, was shot dead by four unidentified persons in Pune. His wife, Bhanu Vaidya, was seriously injured