Rajiv Gandhi: what happened on May 21, 1991

Rajiv Gandhi: what happened on May 21, 1991 On May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi reached Chennai by an afternoon-evening flight. After two hours, he was bound for Sriperumbudur, an industrial centre in Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu and just 40 km from Chennai. Rajiv was busy campaigning for the mid-term elections which had been announced after the VP Singh-led Janata Dal government had collapsed in October, 1990. The Congress was keen to avenge...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012

Rajiv killing: Victims' families forgive convicts

Rajiv killing: Victims' families forgive convicts Sriperumbudur: Twenty years ago the suicide blast that killed the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi also claimed 16 other lives. CNN-IBN met up with the families of the victims to get their views 20 years on. With continuing politics over the death sentence of the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, the case refuses to die down. But back in Sriperumbudur where it all happened, the families that lost...
09:13 AM, Sep 05, 2011

Dell's lessons for India's big push

Dell's lessons for India's big push Sriperumbudur: The 500 workers at India's Dell factory, clad in blue uniforms and the occasional bright pink salwar kameez, are all Indian. Computers leaving the assembly line go to millions of newly affluent Indians feeding an explosion in consumer demand. But the boxes of component parts on the floor say "Made in China." That fact alone says a lot about how far the country's manufacturing sector has to go to...
07:57 AM, Jun 13, 2011

Chennai, India's new IT hub

Chennai, India's new IT hub Flextronics is investing $100 mn to manufacture telecom equipment and Nokia has set up an SEZ in Sriperumbudur. ...
06:59 PM, Nov 04, 2006
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