Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

Over a decade later, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.

* 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.

He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.

Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi immediately dispatched 1, 600 troops by air to restore order in Malé.

* 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 ) was the sixth Prime Minister of India ( 1984 – 1989 ).

Rajiv Gandhi was the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.

Following the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in 1980 Rajiv entered politics.

Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever seen in the Indian Parliament, the Congress party winning 411 seats out of 542.

Rajiv Gandhi remained Congress President until the elections in 1991.

Rajiv Gandhi was posthumously awarded the Highest National Award of India, Bharat Ratna ( 1991 ), joining a list of 40 luminaries, including Indira Gandhi.

Rajiv Gandhi was an active amateur radio operator, and used the callsign VU2RG.

Rajiv Gandhi was born into India's most famous political family.

Rajiv Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, although they share the same surname.

It was widely perceived that Indira Gandhi was grooming Rajiv for the prime minister's job, and he soon became the president of the Youth Congress – the Congress party's youth wing.

Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal when his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib ( Sikhism's holiest shrine, also called " The Golden Temple ") during Operation Blue Star.

Commenting on the anti-Sikh riots in the national capital Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi said, " When a giant tree falls, the earth below shakes "; a statement for which he was widely criticised.

Rajiv Gandhi also officially became the President of the Congress party.

The passing of the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 by the Rajiv Gandhi government, under pressure from conservative Muslims, to dilute the secular judgment of the Supreme Court, was opposed by Hindutva organisations.

In 1984, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) launched a massive movement for the opening of the locks of the mosque, and in 1985 the Rajiv Gandhi government ordered the locks on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya to be removed.

Negotiations were held, and the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed on 29 July 1987, by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Jayewardene.

Some common experiences noted are: the deaths of Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Kurt Cobain the assassinations of Malcolm X, Rajiv Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, and John Lennon, the disaster involving the Challenger space shuttle, and the occurrences on September 11, 2001 Oftentimes, individuals can recall photograph-like memories, and are able to remember exactly what they were doing, for example, or where they were.

Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970 as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

While the case was being investigated, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 for an unrelated cause by the LTTE.

The Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited China in 1988 and agreed to a joint working group on boundary issues which has made little apparent positive progress.

Following a number of high-profile raids on suspected evaders – including Dhirubhai Ambani and Amitabh Bachchan – Rajiv was forced to sack him as Finance Minister, possibly because many of the raids were conducted on industrialists who had supported the Congress financially in the past.

In a dramatic meeting in the Central Hall of Parliament on 1 December, V. P. Singh proposed the name of Devi Lal as Prime Minister, in spite of the fact that he himself had been clearly projected by the anti-Congress forces as the ' clean ' alternative to Rajiv and their Prime Ministerial candidate.

Isaacs played Major Briggs, an American military officer, opposite Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, in Paul Greengrass's thriller Green Zone ( 2010 ), a fictionalised drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone ( 2006 ), by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for which production began in Morocco, in January 2008.

Jayewardene threatened to fight the Indians to the last bullet but, finding the American backing he was counting on was not materialising, he caved in and signed an Indo-Sri Lankan Accord with Rajiv Gandhi, whereby an Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) was stationed in Sri Lanka.

This case caused the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to pass the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 which diluted the secular judgment of the Supreme Court and, in reality, denied even utterly destitute Muslim divorcées the right to alimony from their former husbands.

In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization.

Akshay Kumar ( born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia on September 9, 1967 ) is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films.

He was inducted into the Union ( Indian federal ) Council of Ministers in the government headed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 21 September 1985 as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Commerce and then in the Ministry of Personnel.

His remaining term was full of controversies on account of his soured relations with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

He served 26 years in the IFS, the last five of which were on deputation to the Prime Minister's Office under Rajiv Gandhi ( 1985 – 1989 ).

Rajiv Pratap Rudy ( born on March 30, 1962 ) is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar, India.

This was followed by another accord titled " the Punjab settlement " signed by the then Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, President of the Shiromani Akali Dal, on the 24th July, 1985.

The nearby residential areas are the Vellanur Panchayat and Vellanur Village, Muthapudupettai, Defence Enclave, Veerapuram, Mittanemalli, Kovil Padaghai, Brindavan Nagar, Rajiv Nagar, Kamaraj Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Sabhi Nagar, Shanthi Nagar, Marshal Nesamani Nagar and Poompuzhil Nagar wherein most of employees of the defence organizations live with their families.

Rajiv is currently working with Lok Sabha TV as CEO.

Rajiv is currently working with Lok Sabha TV as CEO.

* India's Rajiv ( 1991 ) 3 part TV documentary series