Atal Bihari Vajpayee  

On October 14, a tsunami of congratulatory messages poured in for Nobel Economics Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee, leaving us to wonder if India erupted with similar enthusiasm when Madurai's Iron Lady received the Padma Shri earlier this year for reducing poverty in Tamil Nadu villages?

During Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government, Ram Jethmalani was elected as BJP MP in the sixth and seventh Lok Sabha

Here are 5 decisions taken by former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee that changed India forever. Vajpayee passed away on August 16, 2018
 

After conducting interviews on Friday, the three-member CAC (Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad, Shantha Rangaswamy) decided to reappoint Ravi Shastri as the head coach. Even India captain Virat Kohli had backed him before the team’s departure to the West Indies. Watch the top headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.

From Pokhran to disinvestment, here are five initiatives taken up by Vajpayee, that changed the face of India in terms of economy, telecom sector and education.
 

BJP MLA from Varanasi Cantonment, Saurabh Srivastava, son of former minister Harish Chandra Srivastava, was named 'Emergency' by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, here is why
 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and several ministers paid tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on his first death anniversary at 'Sadaiv Atal' - his memorial.

BJP veteran Atal Bihari Vajpayee perhaps passed on the doctrine when it comes to winning the hearts of people. When Sushma Swaraj was the minister of external affairs, people witnessed her humanitarian approach first hand. Deep Dive with Abhinav Khare explores how she personally took the initiative to solve trivial issues like visa issuance to critical issues like helping Indians in distress.
 

 On a day of hectic political developments, the BJP accused the coalition government of issuing appointments when it didn’t have the right to do so because of its minority status while caretaker chief minister and his father, former PM HD Deve Gowda accused the BJP of inducing fissures in the coalition.

PM Modi was replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in Lok Sabha, and said the Congress never spoke about the good work of former prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narasimha Rao or even Manmohan Singh.
 

The prime minister visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, around 7 am. Later, he went to Sadaiv Atal, the lotus-shaped memorial of former prime minister Vajpayee.

Ravi Kishan said he also plans to make Bhojpuri films on the lives of Swami Vivekanada and former premier late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

On this day in 1998, India celebrated the success of ‘Operation Shakti’, testing five nuclear devices at Indian Army’s Test Range at Pokharan in Rajasthan
 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the Congress was ‘afraid’ of celebrating the ‘diplomatic victory’ and was thus making claims of having conducted surgical strikes. Jaitley said the Congress was claiming surgical strikes now only to save political face

After BJP released its manifesto "Sankalp Patra" on Monday (April 8), Tamil Nadu's actor-politician praised BJP for undertaking the issues associated with Indian rivers