Initially, Gandhi's choice of the salt tax was met with incredulity by the Working Committee of the Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru and Dibyalochan Sahoo were ambivalent ; Sardar Patel suggested a land revenue boycott instead.

We had differences from the time we became co-workers and yet I have said for some years and say so now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India praised the Soviets for " a great victory of man over the forces of nature " and urged that it be " considered as a victory for peace.

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

He originally planned to be a journalist, and translated an autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru into Sinhala.

Jawaharlal Nehru took up residence in Teen Murti Bhavan, which used to be the residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in British India ; it was formerly called Flagstaff House.

Mawdudi believed the Indian Congress to be a hypocritical organization and was a vociferous critic of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 1947, Ripley entered Nepal pretending to be a close confidante of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nepal government, eager to maintain diplomatic ties with its newly independent neighbour, allowed him to collect bird specimens.

Foreign intelligence failure during the Sino-Indian war ( 20 October-21 November 1962 ) led then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to order a dedicated foreign intelligence agency to be established.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the adjacent Mumbai Port were closed for several days until the containers could be cleared and no longer present any danger to shipping.

The silver jubilee year of the university in 1947 coincided with India's independence, and the national flag was hoisted in the main building for the first time by VKRV Rao, the convocation ceremony for the year, however could not be held due to partition disturbances, thus a special ceremony was held in 1948, which was attended by prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten, Lady Mountbatten, Abul Kalam Azad, Zakir Hussain and S. S. Bhatnagar.

The manifesto called for an international conference, and was originally planned by Jawaharlal Nehru to be held in India.

Juhu Aerodrome continued to be used however, such as by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948 as well as by the ailing Vallabhbhai Patel ( then Deputy Prime Minister ) who landed at Juhu in December 1950 to avoid large crowds that had gathered at Santacruz Airport to greet him.

Having gone through the tremendous excitement of sailing in a snake-boat Jawaharlal Nehru donated a rolling trophy to be awarded to the winner of the race.

Also under construction in the vicinity is an Elevated road project that would connect Sarai Kale Khan with Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Lodhi Road, this would subsequently be extended to Mayur Vihar in East Delhi from Sarai Kale Khan side and to INA Colonyfrom the stadium end, during the phase II of the construction.

Lohia was contesting from Kannauj, but he was mostly in Phulpur, Jawaharlal Nehru's pocket borough, campaigning for the late Janeshwar Mishra, who was pitted against the formidable Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru's sister. It was a watershed election in the sense that the results would finally show that the Congress was not totally invincible, that dents could be made in its armour.

Indian civil servant C. S. Venkatachar wrote that the Kashmir issue might have been resolved in favour of India had Jawaharlal Nehru chosen C. P. instead of Gopalaswami Ayyangar to present India's case at the United Nations.

The collections left behind in his ancestral palace, ' Diwan Deodi ' were formerly exhibited there as a private museum which was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951.

Subsequently, Indira and Feroze grew closer to each other while in England, and they married, despite initial objections from Jawaharlal due to his religion ( Zoroastrianism ).

In August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru became the prime minister of independent India, and the family settled in Allahabad, and then at Lucknow, where Feroze became the editor of the National Herald newspaper ( founded by Motilal Nehru ).

Krishnamachari, further alienating Feroze from Jawaharlal.

* March-Freedom fighter Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter Indira marries a Parsi lawyer and freedom fighter, Feroze Gandhi against her father's wishes.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

A new port has been developed near Mumbai known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust ( JNPT ) or more popularly known as Nhava Sheva to reduce the burden on Mumbai.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

Communism wall painting in Jawaharlal Nehru University, based on Picasso's Guernica ( painting ) | Guernica mural.

In an interview on the BBC, George Fernandes, former Indian Defence Minister and prominent Burma critic, said that Coco Island was part of India until it was donated to Burma by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

* In India, Children's Day is celebrated on November 14, the birthdate of first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

* Children's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru.

From then on, Nasser adopted the " positive neutralism " of Josip Broz Tito and Jawaharlal Nehru as his foreign policy regarding alliances with the Soviet Union and the West in relation to the Cold War.

Although pleas for commutation were made by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and by Gandhi's two sons on the grounds that a death sentence would dishonour the legacy of a man opposed to all forms of violence, Godse was hanged a week later.

These statements of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also have a bearing on the territorial extent of Kanjut as well as the rest of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her accession “ in its entirety to the new Dominion of India ” on October 26 and Section ( 4 ) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir which pertains to the territorial extent of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir also unequivocally states that, “ The territory of the State shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State ".

In India, he became an intimate of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and extensively advised the Indian government on economic matters ; he harshly criticised Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British rule, for Mountbatten's passive role in the Partition of India in 1947 and the bloody partition of Punjab and Bengal.

* An under-construction footbridge at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, one of the main venues for 2010 Commonwealth Games collapsed on September 21, 2010, a few weeks before the opening ceremony, injuring 27 people.

He was cremated with full state honors at sunset the following day ; the last rites were performed by his nephew Dr. P. V. Ramachandran, at Ekta sthal on the banks of the River Yamuna ( adjacent to Shanti van, the memorial of his mentor Jawaharlal Nehru ).

Jawaharlal Nehru died in office on 27 May 1964 and left a void.

When Ram idols were allegedly placed in the Mosque illegally on December 23, 1949, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, G. B. Pant, demanding their removal because " a dangerous example is being set there.

A special screening was held in Rashtrapati Bhavan ( presidential quarter ) in New Delhi on 23 October 1957 ; the event was attended by the President of India Rajendra Prasad, the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi.

The establishment of IIMs was envisioned and initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, based on the recommendation of the Planning Commission.

He singles out then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's refusal to serve on the Congress Working Committee in 1951, which led to the resignation of the Congress Purushottam Das Tandon.

The foundation was laid by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, on July 13, 1951.