Search results
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Hindi pronunciation: [əʈəl bɪɦaːɾiː ʋaːdʒpai]; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician and poet who served three terms as the 10th Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born December 25, 1924, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India—died August 16, 2018, New Delhi, Delhi) was the leader of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and twice served as the prime minister of India (1996; 1998–2004).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a leader of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and twice served as prime minister of India (1996 and 1998–2004). U...
- Although Atal Bihari Vajpayee had earlier been praised for his conciliatory gestures toward India’s Muslim minority, in 2002 his government was cri...
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, in December 2014.
Aug 16, 2018 · India's former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has died at the age of 93. Mr Vajpayee had been on life-support since Wednesday night.
- Archana Complex, Block B, Greater Kailash I, New Delhi, 110048, India
- August 16, 2018
- August 17, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 · Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who as India’s prime minister from 1998 to 2004 stunned the world by ending a decades-old moratorium on nuclear weapons tests but nevertheless managed to ease tensions...
May 24, 2023 · On 26 June 1975, the police arrived at a hostel in India's southern city of Bangalore and arrested Atal Behari Vajpayee, a prominent opposition politician.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first non-Congress leader to serve a full term in power and who ordered nuclear tests to make India a nuclear weapons power, died on Thursday,...
Aug 16, 2018 · Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who presided over clandestine nuclear tests that confirmed India as a nuclear power but soured relations with rival Pakistan, died Thursday...
