Aakar Patel looks forward to Prime Minister Modi's speech at the bhoomi pujan for the Ram temple in Ayodhya next week.It will be entertaining and stirring, predicts Aakar, and make lots of promises......
Parliament on Monday passed a bill to provide constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes, as several members in the Rajya Sabha urged the government to make public the......
The original reforms trio of 1991, which showed the way for the opening up of the Indian economy, is now back with a bang. At that time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Narasimha Rao's finance......
Hit by election defeats and several scams, the Congress plenary will meet in Delhi this weekend. Praful Bidwai surveys the challenges that confront Sonia Gandhi and her party. How the mighty have......
The high-level expert group led by former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan to formulate a jobs plan for Jammu and Kashmir is likely to meet on Friday in New Delhi. The committee was......
Of the eight RBI governors who have held office since the 1991 economic liberalisation, Bimal Jalan had the longest stint and S Venkitaramanan, the shortest. Current Governor Shaktikanta Das will......
'There are occasions when the prices of individual items like food raise inflation; then supply-side measures must be taken.''But if there is continued inflation, it means liquidity is aggravating......
'The actions of Indian monetary authorities will depend on how quickly they want the inflation to come down to 4 per cent.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com C Rangarajan has been governor of......
'If because of El Nino, the monsoon is affected adversely in the current year, naturally it will affect income projections and consequently Budget numbers.' IMAGE: Villagers carrying containers......
'We can go somewhere between 35 per cent and 40 per cent.' IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives with Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das to attend the customary post......