In it Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is quoted as saying that RBI made a " mistake " in closing down the Palai Central Bank.

In his meetings with Nehru, Krishnamurti elaborated at length on the teachings, saying in one instance, “ Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things ; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you.

Nehru was furious and wrote to Rajaji saying " the one thing we must avoid giving is the impression that we stick to office and we want to keep others out at all costs.

In November, 1962 he was recruited to participate in a guerrilla war against Communist China, but he refused, saying " that so long as Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister of the country, I could be only a traitor to it.

In 2009, Delhi lokayukta investigated a complaint filed by advocate Sunita Bhardwaj, a BJP worker, saying that Dikshit misused Rs 3. 5 crore received from the Central government under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana to give out personal advertisements.

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.

Edwina and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru became intimate friends after Indian Independence.

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

While encouraging the construction of large dams ( which Nehru called the " new temples of India "), irrigation works and the generation of hydroelectricity, Nehru also launched India's programme to harness nuclear energy.

Jawaharlal Nehru was a passionate advocate of education for India's children and youth, believing it essential for India's future progress.

Nehru also outlined a commitment in his five-year plans to guarantee free and compulsory primary education to all of India's children.

From the outset in 1948, Nehru had high ambition to develop this program to stand against the industrialized states and the basis of this program was to establish an Indian nuclear weapons capability as part of India's regional superiority to other South-Asian states, most particularly Pakistan.

The war exposed the unpreparedness of India's military which could send only 14 thousand troops to the war zone in opposition to many times larger Chinese army, and Nehru was widely criticised for his government's insufficient attention to defence.

India's policy of weaponisation via indigenous sources and self-sufficiency began in earnest under Nehru, completed by his daughter Indira Gandhi, who later led India to a crushing military victory over rival Pakistan in 1971.

As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy.

His grandfather was the Indian independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru, who was India's first Prime Minister after independence.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

India's stance that China withdraw from Aksai Chin caused continual deterioration of the diplomatic situation to the point that internal forces were pressuring Nehru to take a military stance against China.

* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.

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.

In 1957, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha, where his oratorical skills so impressed the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.

In 1961, this first president of Indonesia also found another political alliance, an organization, called the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM, in Indonesia known as Gerakan Non-Blok, GNB ) with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five ( Sukarno, Nkrumah, Nasser, Tito, and Nehru ).

He enjoyed good relations with India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and he believed that the United States and India shared fundamental democratic values.

He visited India and participated in the centennial celebrations of the Indian National Congress in 1985 ; he was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1967 and later Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1987.

On the grounds that West Bengal had the highest concentration of industries at the time, Roy persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru ( India's first prime minister ) to establish the first institute in West Bengal.

Creating the Planning commission of India, Nehru drew up the first Five-Year Plan in 1951, which charted the government's investments in industries and agriculture.

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.

On February 16, he had an appointment with his old friend P. C. Mahalanobis, now a favourite of Nehru and closely associated with the Planning Commission.

He is now a Member of the Planning Commission of Government of India, he is the Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University & he is the Chairman of Karnataka Knowledge Commission.

After India gained independence, a formal model of planning was adopted, and accordingly the Planning Commission, reporting directly to the Prime Minister of India was established on 15 March 1950, with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the chairman.

In December 1953, Nehru appointed the States Reorganisation Commission to prepare for the creation of states on linguistic lines.

Nehru envisioned the developing of nuclear weapons and established the Atomic Energy Commission of India ( AEC ) in 1948.

Incidents included: the protests against the Simon Commission Report ; the Nehru Report ; the All-Parties Conference ; the Muslim League leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah's 14 points ; the Civil Disobedience Movement launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi ; and the Round Table Conferences.

Motilal Nehru chaired the famous Nehru Commission in 1928, that was a counter to the all-British Simon Commission.

* 1992 Minister ( Culture ) in High Commission of India, UK and Director, The Nehru Centre, London, UK.

The two previous commissions were the Shah Newaz Commission ( appointed by Jawaharlal Nehru ) and The Khosla Commission respectively.

In December 1953, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed the States Reorganisation Commission to prepare for the creation of states on linguistic lines.

M & M also worked for the Indian High Commission, which led to a meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru.

Several months after the conference, Nehru ordered maps of India published that showed expansive Indian territorial claims as definite boundaries, notably in Aksai Chin.

Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, requisitioned the services of Mahadev Desai in 1920 from Gandhi to edit the daily newspaper, Independent, from Allahabad.

Increasing business and income taxes, Nehru envisaged a mixed economy in which the government would manage strategic industries such as mining, electricity and heavy industries, serving public interest and a check to private enterprise.