Ahluwalia says he told Singh, who was then on a visit to the US, that he did not think a resignation on this issue was appropriate
Asked for his assessment of Manmohan Singh as PM, Ahluwalia said the view he was weak and vacillating was unfair
What is unusual about the current period of slow growth is that it has come without an exogenous driver, unlike all previous periods of slowdown, going back 50 years, writes T N Ninan
If doing away with tax exemptions is not 'bold', what is? It has annoyed savers which is as good a definition of 'bold' as you will ever get. Structural reform is like that only
If the Singh government was characterised by policy paralysis, this one is afflicted by hyper-activism, sans a roadmap
Young people have recently reminded the country that freedom is best secured in the custody of enlightened citizens and when it is protected for all, Manmohan Singh said
The Congress has come out against the amended citizenship law and supported students' agitations in various campuses in the country.
Though non-tax revenues, including borrowings, account for 40% of the Budget, there seems to be little focus on boosting these or reducing borrowings by saving on expenditure, writes T N Ninan
In visible signs of economic woes, the auto sector went through one of the longest sales slumps leading to nearly 3.5 lakh job losses.
It is difficult to say whether the banking sector will see the worst behind it by March 2020
In his brief address, Manmohan Singh urged the people to strengthen the Congress party and the hands of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in order "to take the country forward in the right direction"
Referring to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, he said demonetisation had an adverse impact on economic growth.
P Chidambaram, Gulam Nabi Azad, and Ambika Soni to accompany the former PM
The notion that the decline in GDP is the result of demonetisation is a myth
If Manmohan Singh felt uncomfortable that the Sikh riots happened in 1984, he should have protested and should not have joined the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet as the Finance Minister, he said
Just watch political leaders across the world - the debilitating effects of power are so visible
Javadekar questioned Singh why he went on to become a Finance Minister in a Cabinet headed by Narsimha Rao, if he had such adverse feelings about him
Gujral was the 12th Prime Minister of India between April 1997 and March 1998
The Punjab chief minister also invited President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the 550th Prakash Purb celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev
It will be interesting if corruption becomes to the NDA in 2022 what inflation had become to the UPA by 2012