The men behind Rahul 2.0

His office and staff have been revamped after the Congress’s electoral defeat in 2014, reports Kavita Chowdhury Rahul Gandhi’s office and staff have been revamped after the......

Coal-gate: Cong MPs briefed on how to counter BJP

On instructions from Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior Union ministers were asked to brief Congress MPs on the allocation of coal blocks and the CAG report. The AICC wanted to hold the......

India is changing, but our success is not inevitable: Rahul

The opening speech Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi gave while chairing the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies' 20th anniversary lecture -- Globalisation, Justice and Rights,......

Manmohan's advice for Modi: 'No free market without freedom'

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday stepped into the raging debate on intolerance by condemning the murders of dissenters and some on the basis of what they eat and said the nation is......

Bibek Debroy: A Guru I Could Look To

Bibek Debroy was one of the very few economists not bound by any single area of expertise and was simultaneously curious about economics and politics, myths and maths, chess and chemistry, and what......

Bibek Debroy joins as full time member of NITI Aayog

Noted economist Bibek Debroy on Wednesday assumed charged as full time member of the NITI Ayog National Institution for Transforming India. Government had announced the appointment of Debroy and......

Even NITI Aayog members are clueless about its role

Bibek Debroy had raised seven questions about the new institution. As the head of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Bibek Debroy had ranked Gujarat the top state in terms of......

New faces, roles for India's economic think tanks

It's a season of change at economic think tanks. In September, Parthasarathi Shome will return to India as chief executive at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations......