Chidambaram slams Modi, calls him encounter minister

In a fresh war of words, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday hit out at Narendra Modi dubbing him a compulsive liar and an encounter chief minister. In Chennai, Chidambaram said, “Mr......

Andhra Congress may share Karnataka BJP's fate

The state contributes 30-plus MPs -- a fatal number for the Congress to lose at the Centre, says Aditi Phadnis Amid all the self-congratulatory backslapping in the Congress over the Karnataka......

Budget: A magic show from Chidambaram

Investors would have much preferred a gritty, honest appraisal of the tough trade-offs. Investors tuned in to Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s Budget speech on......

How good was the vote-on-account?

It would be unfair to begrudge Mr Chidambaram for using the last occasion in this Lok Sabha's term to advertise the UPA government's priorities, commitments and achievements, rues Nitin Pai By now......

Budget: A victory for pragmatism and realism

The minister learns from Europe's economic suicide, and pulls off a difficult balancing act, says Claude Smadja.Let us be realistic: looking at it from the perspective of a foreign observer not......