BJP rule brought MP out of BIMARU category, says Shah; releases report card

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released the Madhya Pradesh government's 'report card' from 2003-2023 and said the Bharatiya Janata Party government in these years successfully removed the......

How Haryana Win Revives Modi Aura

If you know this BJP, it will now go forward to Jharkhand and Maharashtra as if June 2024 never happened, notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Narendra D Modi greets Bharatiya Janata Party supporters after......

BIMARU states lag behind: Parl panel

A Parliamentary Standing Committee has said that it was "perturbed" to note the under utilisation of funds in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, popularly known as BIMARU states.......

Oppn supported women's reservation bill 'reluctantly': Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Congress and its allies in the new “ghamandia” alliance supported the women's reservation bill in Parliament "reluctantly" as there was......

UP lowest among BIMARU states in 9-year growth: Assocham

Bihar has ranked on top among the BIMARU states registering highest growth rate of 9.3 per centClocking the slowest compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 6.9 per cent in terms of gross......

Reforms bypass most Bimaru states

The policy of economic liberalisation had bypassed all the Bimaru states, except Rajasthan, said an analysis by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India on the impact of economic......

Bihar: From Bimaru to booming?

A recent visit to Patna reinforced this impression: it is the most happening city in India. True, it is still dirty and unplanned. Traffic pretty much does as it likes. There is no sense of civic......

Why the Planning Commission should wind up

Ashish Bose coined the term BIMARU in a paper to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s to highlight the economic backwardness of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. He tells......