Morarji Desai, India's first non Congress prime minister, was born on February 29, 1896. Mr Desai was 81 when he was elected prime minister and ruled India for two years, from March 1977 to July......
If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a......
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......
'Narasimha Rao asked me why China was doing so well in attracting foreign investments and I gave my frank opinion.''I told him that giving thrust to exports had to be a national effort.''But in......
L K Advani arrived in Islamabad on Monday.The Bharatiya Janata Party president was accompanied on this historic visit by his wife Kamala and daughter Pratibha.Advani, who was born in Karachi, is......
Perhaps because the Modi government had some differences of opinion with two of the economist governors (one of whom was appointed by the Manmohan Singh government), there is a view that its......
We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy. Photograph: Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com I......