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New papers reveal attempts to ban British Sikh protests after Operation Blue StarThe documents were released after a UK judge had ruled last month that declassifying the Downing Street papers would not damage diplomatic ...- Westland chopper deal Achilles heel in UK-India ties: De-classified documentsA mutli-million-pound contract for India to purchase 27 Westland 30 helicopters was described as the British government's "Achilles heel" i...
- Geoffrey Howe, Thatcher's first finance minister, dies at age 88Geoffrey Howe, the UK Conservative minister who imposed controversial austerity measures in 1981 and provided the trigger for Thatcher's po...
- Margaret Thatcher ignored death threats to attend Indira Gandhi's funeral: Newly-declassified docsThatcher, who described the former Indian Prime Minister as a "member of my own family", flew down to New Delhi to attend her funeral on No...
- Margaret Thatcher wanted to prosecute Sikh who incited Indira Gandhi's killingJagjit Singh Chauhan, the founder of the Khalistan movement, had moved to Britain in 1971 to carry on his campaign for an independent Sikh ...
- Indira Gandhi had asked Margaret Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka militarilyIndira Gandhi had asked her Margaret Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka with military advice to crush the separatist Tamil Eelam movement i...
- I quit, and how! Resignations gone viralThe unusually candid post-firing letter of a man known for his atypical sense of humour – began thus: “I’ve decided that I’d like to spend ...
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