New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Indira Gandhi, India's first female Prime Minister, on her 108th birth anniversary on Wednesday.

"Tributes to former PM Smt. Indira Gandhi Ji on the occasion of her birth anniversary," PM Modi posted on X.

Born on November 19, 1917, to India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru, Indira Gandhi served as the first and only woman prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984.

She was shot dead by two of her own bodyguards at her official residence at Akbar Road on October 31, 1984, which led to anti-Sikh riots in several parts of the country.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister also...