What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
Finding itself trapped in a cul de sac, all things considered, a negotiated climbdown at this juncture seems the only sensible course available for the Centre, suggests Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE:......
The government appears wary of taking decisions that might have an adverse political reaction, opines A K Bhattacharya The next general election is more than three and a half years away. Yet, the......
A heavy agenda including the ordinance on the Food Security Bill awaits the Monsoon session of Parliament beginning on Monday amid expectations that the short sitting will be more businesslike and......
What Shekhar Gupta would have liked to know more about from Pranabda: Why did Sonia prefer Dr Singh to him as PM? Why did he deny finance first, why did he accept it 5 years later, and why did he......
Vowing to continue with financial reforms agenda, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday the government would push forward various legislations including those related to insurance and......
Reforms Commission, chaired by Justice B N Srikrishna, has suggested a non-sectoral, principle-based approach to revamp the existing framework The government will soon implement a large number of......
Amid outcry over Ponzi schemes causing huge losses to common people, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday there are regulatory gaps and efforts are being made to frame a new law to......
A government-appointed panel on Friday proposed a unified regulator for markets, insurance, commodities and pensions. It proposed to keep banking out of its purview, but only temporarily. The......
After carrying out a comprehensive health check-up of the financial sector in 2009, India has sought an assesment under the Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP) of the International......