In 1948, hundreds of thousands of mourners attended Mahatma Gandhi’s funeral after he was assassinated by a Hindu extremist while leaving a prayer meeting in Delhi. The assassination, just months after India became independent, plunged the nation into grief and marked a turning point. After the funeral, most of Gandhi’s ashes were immersed in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. Friday is Gandhi’s 78th death anniversary. | BBC News India

It's 31 years to the day former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE militant. Here's a timeline of the murder trial that followed, which continues to this day. #AajNEWJDekhaKya #RajivGandhi | Briefly