
	Where results make sense

Topic: Maneka Gandhi

Related Topics

Varun Gandhi

Sanjay Gandhi

Gandhi

Feroze Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Priyanka Robert Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

Nehru

Thenmuli Rajaratnam

Nayantara Sahgal

	The Voice of Animals in Indian Parliament MANEKA GANDHI
		Maneka's many enemies have been trying to catch her with political dirt on her hands for most of her life.
		The whole neighborhood is witness that Maneka and her household used the seeds from the fruit they personally ate to plant most of the trees and shrubbery that now make the neighborhood the only part of Delhi with decreasing air pollution.
		Married to Sanjay Gandhi, the younger son and generally recognized political heir of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi, Maneka was abruptly widowed in 1980, at age 25, when Sanjay crashed his private airplane.
	www.jivdaya.org /voice_of_animals_in_indian_parliment_manekagandhi.htm (1205 words)

	FLYING SOLO Ð THE MANEKA GANDHI INTERVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Maneka Gandhi is doing for the animals of India what Mahatma Gandhi did for the people.
		During Maneka Gandhi's rein in Parliment she was often quoted thoroughly on subjects that most others in public life dare not address.
		Let it not be over-looked that almost by the sheer force of her personality alone, Maneka Gandhi inspired as much by example, as spokesperson, the rise and rise of a dynamic modern-day Indian animal rights movement.
	www.animal-lib.org.au /more_interviews/maneka (2395 words)

	Interviews : Smt Maneka Gandhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Gandhi did not shy away from her scathing remarks on her concerns which might affect the whole sector adversely if corrective and self-regulated actions are not taken.
		Gandhi; which according to her is irrelevant to the sector.
		Gandhi said that 60 per cent of the NGOs in the country are fake; prompting her ministry to check the veracity of all the NGOs in the country funded by her ministry.
	www.indianngos.com /interviews/manekagandhi.htm (1569 words)

	WATCHDOG Maneka Gandhi Loses Welafre Ministry AP 9.02
		Gandhi was among the top vote-getters for the coalition nationwide during the September 1999 election campaign that returned the Vajpayee government to office with a stronger majority.
		Gandhi was recruiting staff in anticipation of enrolling 200 students in residence by fall, when she lost the animal welfare ministryand probably lost funding for the universityas apparent result of a high-profile confrontation with the Indian biomedical research establishment.
		Gandhi in 1989 initiated legal action to enforce a long neglected provision of the 1972 Indian Wildlife Act, allowing confiscation of all lions, tigers, leopards, nonhuman primates, and bears from traveling shows and circuses, and it was in cooperation with the present ministry staff that Mrs.
	www.animalpeoplenews.org /02/9/manekaloseswelfaremin902.html (2331 words)

	Maneka Gandhi profile \| Animal Welfare \| Social Justice \| Environmentalist
		She is none other than Maneka Gandhi, a writer, animal activist and environmentalist, who is pledged to free the nature from all sorts of exploitation.
		Maneka Gandhi was born on 26 August 1956 in Delhi.
		Gandhi is an ardent environmentalist who brought to the mainstream the issue of animal rights in India.
	living.oneindia.in /celebrity/other-celebrities/maneka-gandhi-environmentalist.html (630 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Elections '98: Campaign Trail/Maneka Gandhi
		Maneka Gandhi, flying solo, managed in the interregnum to position herself as an environmental crusader and, in fact, even held that portfolio in the V P Singh-led government.
		Interestingly, Maneka refuses to allow son Varun to take any part in the campaign -- again in marked contrast to Sonia, who never attends an election meeting without at least one of her two children in tow.
		All of which means that Maneka has to concentrate on the Sikh voters to give her the edge over her rivals -- which in turn produces a puzzle.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/19maneka.htm (728 words)

	Satya April 03: Maneka Gandhi by Jason Baker
		Maneka Gandhi is a renowned activist who works on behalf of animals, poor people and the environment.
		Gandhi is a born politician—she is the widow of Sanjay Gandhi, the son of Indira Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India).
		Maneka Gandhi accomplished all this, and more, working from her home office, with every nook and cranny of her own living space filled with staff and papers and the most difficult of her rescued Indian dogs.
	www.satyamag.com /apr03/baker.html (725 words)

	Press Releases
		Maneka Gandhi who is the Chairperson of the RUGMARK Foundation, India has suggested that women empowerment is also important for the economic and social development of the carpet belt.
		Maneka Gandhi who is also the Chairperson of the RUGMARK Foundation-India.
		Maneka Gandhi, former Union Minister and Chairperson of RUGMARK Foundation.
	www.rugmarkindia.org /press/release.htm (1757 words)

	Maneka Gandhi, Key Contenders for India Election 2004
		Maneka Gandhi was born on 26th August 1956 in Delhi and educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar.
		She is the widow of Sanjay Gandhi, the son of Indira Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India).
		Maneka Gandhi was also the recipient of the prestigious Lord Erskine Award from the RSPCA, the 'Prani Mitra Award' and the "Maharana Mewar, Foundation Award" for Environmental work.
	www.indian-elections.com /keycontenders/maneka-gandhi.html (306 words)

	The Excerpts of the Exclusive INTERVIEW WITH MANEKA GANDHI
		She said she was married to Sanjay Gandhi, at the age of 16, at the age of 18 she made her first case against the Govt.
		As per Maneka, although she had no great visions of her future, growing up in a secure Defense environment, the qualities she embodies were ingrained in her right since childhood.
		She did not deny the possibility of his entering politics, since he too carried the famous Gandhi surname – in fact she hoped that he would be able to fulfil the dreams of his late father.
	www.kuwaitsamachar.com /news/maneka_interview.htm (1248 words)

	Maneka Gandhi Faces Showdown AP 6.02
		Gandhi noted, contemplating the possibility that she might be politically sacrificedin part because of her open opposition to animal sacrifice in the name of religion, as well as in the name of science.
		Gandhi in seeking it, but was nonetheless portrayed by some opposition newspapers as a defeat for Mrs.
		Gandhi on May 11 ordered the National Institute of Virology in Pune to halt animal experiments, one day after CPSEA member and PETA/India representative Anuradha Sawhney discovered during a surprise inspection that 37 monkeys appeared to be kept in darkness, in cages too small for them.
	www.animalpeoplenews.org /02/6/maneka602.html (1840 words)

	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> Maneka Gandhi Removed from Indian Animal Testing Panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Spearheading that was Maneka Gandhi, who was chairperson of India's Central Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals and using her position to block scientific research.
		Gandhi had been removed from the Union Cabinet in July 2002 after she came up on the losing end of a debate over animal research with then-Union Health Minister C.P. Thakur.
		The official reason for Gandhi's removal from the committee was that a Member of Parliament could not hold this sort of committee post, but it was also clear that the government wanted to install someone less extremist in her views.
	www.animalrights.net /48690 (264 words)

	Articles on Dogs : By Maneka Gandhi
		By Pritish Nandy and Maneka Gandhi, two people were convinced that India needed a people's movement to stop cruelty towards animals and spread the message of ahimsa.
		Gandhi, writer and politician, minister of environment and forests in the Indian Government, a crusading activist for the cause of animals, was the chairperson.
		Heads and Tails later became a cult book and its author, Maneka Gandhi went on to receive some of the highest awards in the world for her pioneering work among animals.
	www.kutta.com /articles_maneka.asp (743 words)

	Maneka and some manoeuvres
		Indira Gandhi's younger daughter-in-law was divested of the Culture portfolio barely 78 days after she was entrusted with it, given independent charge of the relatively low-profile Ministry of Programme Implementation and Statistics, in a minor but surprise reshuffle of the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on November 18.
		Maneka, who apparently took her responsibilities a little too seriously, described it as a "bolt out of the blue".
		The inauguration of the first IGNCA building was due on November 19, which Sonia Gandhi would have attended as a member, sitting among the audience, while Maneka Gandhi, being the Culture Minister, would have occupied a place on the dais.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1825/18250260.htm (817 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Weekend
		The lady who memorably stormed out of Mrs Gandhi?s house and then went on to build her own career as a politician and animal rights activist, is now a patron and promoter of the arts.
		In the Vajpayee ministry she was shunted from the culture ministry to the Ministry of Programme Implementation and Statistics.
		An author of 11 books including those on Sanjay Gandhi, the mythology of Indian plants, animal laws, Hindu names and Muslim names, she is putting together articles that she?s written for newspapers during the past few decades.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050806/asp/weekend/story_5061896.asp (1223 words)

	Sonia forced me out of Indira's home: Maneka-India-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Maneka Gandhi then proceeds to describe the harrowing tale of a widow in distress.
		Maneka explained how the country's most formidable politician suddenly turned into a puppet at the hands of her elder son Rajiv Gandhi, then a pilot with Indian Airlines, and his Italy-born wife Sonia.
		Describing Sanjay as the brightest human being she has ever met, Maneka gently defends her husband against charges that he was to blame for the emergency rule of Indira Gandhi when thousands of political activists were jailed.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=19748025 (763 words)

	Maneka Gandhi in the line of FIRe : pilibhit, maneka gandhi, sonia gandhi, school : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pilibhit (UP): As minister of social justice and empowerment during the NDA regime, Maneka Gandhi sanctioned funds to NGOs in her Parliamentary constituency.
		She has been accused of abusing her official position in the NDA government to sanction funds for the Maneka Gandhi Kanya Inter College School and the Sanjay Gandhi Nursing College in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit - 400 kilometres away from capital Delhi - for political gains.
		Maneka’s defence of a political vendetta against her would have been more credible but for a two-page report of a former district magistrate of Pilibhit.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/maneka/19242-4.html (554 words)

	BWC's Compassion magazine (Vol 31) 1999 - Maneka Gandhi
		INDIA'S minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, MANEKA GANDHI, holds the world's first cabinet post to include the well-being of animals.
		In this exclusive and inspirational interview, Maneka Gandhi speaks to Louise van der Merwe from New Delhi and urges all South Africans to join the struggle for animal liberation.
		It was Mahatma Gandhi who said "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals." South Africa has just waged and won its own battle for freedom.
	home.intekom.com /animals/orgs/bwc/compassion/1999autumn/manekagandhi.html (1432 words)

	India Removes Maneka Gandhi from Post Overseeing Animal Research \| The Humane Society of the United States
		Gandhi, who has an international reputation as a staunch animal protectionist, was removed from her leadership position at the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) mostly because she, as a sitting member of Parliament, could not simultaneously hold such a position, according to government rules.
		Gandhi has been in the news frequently in recent months.
		Some observers believe that Gandhi's recent dismissals have resulted from her aggressive enforcement actions against research institutions.
	www.hsus.org /animals_in_research/animals_in_research_news/india_removes_maneka_gandhi_from_post_overseeing_animal_research.html (165 words)

	Maneka Gandhi, BJP Member of Parliament, India - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Maneka Gandhi, Indian Member of Parliament for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), speaking at the inauguration of a seminar on 'Core Values as a Strategy for Environmental Conservation' in Kochi, Kerala.
		Gandhi, accused Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola of "plundering" India's groundwater resources while contributing "little" to the country.
		Ms Gandhi is an animal rights activist and environmentalist, who served as Environment Minister from 1989 to 1991.
	www.irc.nl /page/26919 (216 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Stop fighting and be united, Maneka Gandhi tells animal rights activists
		Gandhi pointed out that most animal rights group were fighting to try and prevent the other groups from receiving funds.
		Gandhi also appealed to the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to treat animal welfare groups with less suspicion with respect to devolution of funds.
		Gandhi termed "anti-people" the order of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday lifting an earlier order banning `jallikattu,' `rekla race' and other such rural sports involving animals.
	www.hindu.com /2007/01/11/stories/2007011119260500.htm (553 words)

	Maneka Gandhi Advocates Green Accounting System - Indlaw News
		Maneka Gandhi, has suggested 'green accounting system' to generate data on environmental aspects that includes the maintenance of the Natural Resource Accounts of the country.
		She was speaking in a function organised by the ministry here today to felicitate the two distinguished young statisticians Shri Rahul Mukerjee and Dr. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar who share the first National Award in Statistics instituted in honour of Prof.
		Gandhi said that we have to be sensitive to the links between environmental issues and economic and social developments.
	www.indlaw.com /4a4c04dbf13dd139b46b2345d1409ffd (243 words)

	archive: She is Maneka, not Gandhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Title: She is Maneka, not Gandhi Author: Biswajeet Banerjee Publication: The Times of India Date: Sept. 24, 1999 URL: http://elections.timesofindia.com/24indi25.htm Contact: editor@timesofindia.com PILIBHIT: The aura of the Nehru-Gandhi family no longer haunts Maneka.
		Maneka has nurtured this constituency and the time has come for her to reap the harvest.
		Riding high on these achievements the supporters of Maneka have coined a slogan : ``Vikas ki aandhi, Maneka Gandhi.'' Maneka is all praise for the man who had coined this slogan.
	www.media-watch.org /articles/0999/394.html (585 words)

	rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/Maneka Gandhi
		Sonia Gandhi was apparently upset with Maneka's investigations into institutions like the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.
		In a conversation with Ramesh Menon, Maneka Gandhi says all she was trying to do was prevent the 'looting of the country'.
		She does not name Sonia Gandhi, but spills enough details to send tremors through both the government and the opposition.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/nov/27inter.htm (1183 words)

	Seriously Sandeep » Are you Listening, Maneka Gandhi?
		The ABC policy was made a law by Maneka Gandhi when she was the Minister of Culture.
		Not many people are aware of the fact that the Dog Control Rules, 2001 (based verbatim on the ABC guidelines) were passed by the Ministry of Culture under her, despite the fact that the Ministry has nothing to do with public health, nuisance and animal control.
		Well, if Maneka Gandhi should keep all the dogs inside her house just because she is concerned about them, then Sandeep and his ilk should be asked poor children.
	www.sandeepweb.com /2007/01/15/are-you-listening-maneka-gandhi (1974 words)

	Delhi High Court for faster probe in Maneka Gandhi case
		The cases had been lodged against Gandhi Rural Welfare Trust (GRWT) and Alp Sankhyak Sikhya Kalyan Samiti for alleged misuse of funds sanctioned to carry out voluntary works in Maneka Gandhi's constituency Pilibhit.
		In October 2005, the court had directed the CBI to probe the alleged allotment of government funds by Gandhi during her tenure as minister of state for social justice and empowerment to various voluntary agencies including her sister's Gandhi Rural Welfare Trust (GRWT) in 2001.
		Gandhi had allegedly presided over a meeting on January 11, 2001 and sanctioned Rs 5 million for the construction of a nursing college building at Pilibhit by the Gandhi Rural Welfare Trust of her sister.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /india/news/printer_1254638.php (418 words)

	Maneka Gandhi's Book of Hindu Names
		Maneka Gandhi was born on 26 August 1956 and was educated at Lawrence School, Sanawar.
		She was elected to Parliament in November 1989 and was later appointed Minister of State for Environment and Forests, a post she held till June 1991.
		Maneka Gandhi has written three books Sanjay Gandhi, Brahma's Hair (a book on the mythology of Indian plants) and Boulababa.
	www.babynamesindia.com /maneka_gandhi.html (666 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)