With the strain and anxiety of the longest Lok Sabha polls now behind the leaders, governance, with consensus, is the next step. IMAGE: Narendra D Modi bows to the guests before he was sworn in as......
Thirty-three first-timers have found place in the third Modi government sworn in on Sunday and at least six of them hail from well-known political families. IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and......
All eyes will be on the Lok Sabha election results on Tuesday with a number of high-profile electoral battles, starring veterans and debutants, formidable opponents and unlikely contestants.......
Some have been cherry-picked to assert the BJP's supremacy over its allies or, significantly, its leaders who charted an independent course in the recent past. IMAGE: Rekha Patra, the Bharatiya......
The Bharatiya Janata Party announced its initial list of 24 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, showcasing prominent names such as former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh......
With barely a month to go for Budget 2011-12, the government on Thursday appointed Sushma Nath as the new Finance Secretary and gave her an extension for two months till May 31 this year. Nath, now......
The finance ministry has rejected the requests of Punjab, Kerala and West Bengal for relief on their mounting debt. The decision was taken by a committee chaired by finance secretary Sushma......
Y V Reddy, (see left) the chairman of the 14th Finance Commission is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1964 batch. He is best known for his tenure as the 21st governor of the......
The government on Wednesday constituted the 14th Finance Commission under former Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) governor Yaga Venugopal Reddy. Besides recommending the share of states and the Centre......
Finance secretary Sushma Nath on Saturday exuded confidence of reining in the fiscal deficit to 4.6 per cent of gross domestic product this fiscal, even though others call the target optimistic......