'There is also a possibility that Andhra Pradesh may demand a similar package. But as of now, we are only working on a package for Bihar.' IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra D......
'Fixing accountability in the Congress must be addressed on a war footing.''It is impossible for Sonia Gandhi to know each and every party worker, so she has to rely on advisors.''If they guide or......
IMAGE: Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao: Would India be what it is had he not backed liberalisation? 25 years ago today -- June 21, 1991 -- P V Narasimha Rao became prime......
'A lot will depend on the first Aayog and the power it derives.' Rashme Sehgal on what we can expect from the Planning Commission's replacement. One of the main edifices of the Nehruvian era, the......
This article was written in 2006 by Aditi Phadnis and Makrand Gadgil in Of Cabals and Kings: Political Profiles published by BS Books. It has been updated and is being reproduced here In 1966 when......
To give the decades-old Yojana Bhawan a new look and feel, the corridors of the five-storied building are being painted afresh. After more than six months, STD connections are being restored in the......
The Planning Commission needs to be replaced by institutions prescribed under the Constitution for the functions it usurped, feels Indira Rajaraman The Planning Commission was a powerful centre of......
Planning Commission will soon take a view on the controversial report of the Raghuram Rajan panel, which made a case for ending the special category status for poorer states, Deputy Chairman Montek......
Finance Ministry has forwarded to the Planning Commission for "necessary action" the report of Raghuram Rajan Committee on states which seeks to do away with the special category status for poorer......
Maharashtra government, which is facing the heat over land acquisition for the special economic zones has written to the Centre asking it to clarify the scope of the term compulsory land......
After the recent controversy with the Indian Air Force, Aamir Khan's Rang De Basanti has met with resistance from the Animal Welfare Board. But while the IAF cleared the film after three suggested......
The decks were finally cleared for the release of the Aamir Khan-starrer Rang De Basanti when the top brass of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday decided that there was no derogatory reference to the......