Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said India should be "open-minded" about dealing with the Taliban and suggested that it should open its embassy in Kabul and send back the ambassador.
From 1991 onwards, the RBI became a full, if slightly junior, partner of the finance ministry, instead of being a 'mere subordinate department of the financial ministry'
Samajwadi Party leader Ghanshyam Tiwari told Business Standard that a 'decision' not to invite the Congress party to the meeting was just a "rumour"
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha, who recently joined the Trinamool Congress, has been appointed the Vice President of the Mamata Banerjee-led party
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls
Sinha's Budget 2002 also saw the maximum rollbacks; he went back on some five Budget proposals
If the law changes work, everyone can celebrate. If not, it will be for want of reforms in several other areas like land, transport, electricity, and tax laws, writes T N Ninan
Prashant Kishor and Yashwant Sinha have shown intent towards providing an alternative in Bihar
Since Yashwant Sinha emphasised on reducing the government's stake in public sector banks, things have only worsened
Talking to reporters, Sinha also demurred Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding "pre-budget consultation", saying it is "unprecedented" and asked what the latter's Finance Minister is doing
The campaign, organised under the banner of his organisation Rashtra Manch, will be called 'Gandhi Shanti Yatra', Sinha told reporters here
"The psyche of the people of Kashmir has been deeply wounded by the actions of the government of India," the group said in its 19-page report
Sinha said that even now, the government is largely in denial
Those in power were making "weird" statements, the former finance minister said, talking to reporters here
Book review of Relentless: An Autobiography
Though "hurt" that others tried to take credit of what was originally his ideas, Sinha in the autobiography, makes it clear that never once did he mind Vajpayee taking credit of it
Sinha recollects this incident in his autobiography Relentless, which is scheduled to be launched on Monday
The BE for this year for expenditure on major items, agriculture and allied activities, is approximately Rs 64,000
Amid speculation that the govt may present a full Budget on Feb 1, Sinha said there was no precedence of an outgoing govt doing so
Sinha talks about all that is wrong with GST, demonetisation and the current crop of BJP leaders