Pranab Babu

Rediff.com » News » Pranab Babu

News for Pranab Babu

News
Business
Movies

Mamata Banerjee and the Politics of Impulsiveness

Hasty, ill-conceived steps show how isolated Mamata Banerjee had been from the national political trend.A fascinating excerpt from Sugato Hazra's Losing The Plot: Political Isolation Of West......

How Ahmed Patel became close to Sonia Gandhi

'Temperamentally, they are quite alike.' 'Ahmed Patel avoided the limelight and was not a power seeker.''The Gandhis too are not power wielders, but trustees of power.' IMAGE: Congress President......

Shiv Sena has history of flirting with rivals

Founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena in its more than five decades long journey has allied with the Congress, formally and informally. From backing Congress candidates in presidential......

Pranab Mukherjee, LK Advani will release book on Biju Patnaik

Naveen Patnaik’s guest list has been prepared with an eye on the forthcoming Lok Sabha and assembly polls, reports Archis Mohan. In a significant development for Odisha politics,......

'There would be so many Ram Nath Kovinds in the country today'

'...getting drenched in the rains, doing farm work, labour and sweating it out so that they can get their evening meals.''I want to tell them that this Ram Nath Kovind of Paraunkh village is going......

Jaitley's gift: A 'Rs 200 crore statue' Budget!

There was a lot of hope abroad that Mr Jaitley's first Budget would be known as the 'Rollback Retrospective', says Devangshu Datta. Landmark budgets, good or bad, are associated with buzzwords, or......

COLUMN: Is this why DMK supported Pranab Mukherjee?

The flow of funds to Kalignar TV begins on 23rd December 2008 and goes on till August 2009. The Finance Minister during that time was Pranab Mukherjee - the UPA's candidate for the post of......

Experts share their view on the Budget

It is surprising to see that there is no direct focus being given to the IT industry in the budget this year.World over, this decade is defined as a decade of information technology driven......

Ho-hum, so the Lok Sabha discussed black money, what's new?

Can a corrupt revenue system be trusted to keep confidences when oodles of money are involved, asks Mahesh Vijapurkar The other day, when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani moved an......

Does the Budget have a human face?

When the Union Finance Minister Pranab babu rose to present his budget for 2011-12, he was basically presenting hisab kitab of how he was going to spend Rs 12,57,729 crore (Rs 12.57 trillion)......

3 cheers for Kangana!

'It was only to be expected that she would grace the national awards function in her distinctive style.''For her admirers, the flouting of norms was in character because she has made her mark in......

Moushumi Chatterjee: I was always a superstar

'I have been dropped from many movies. I did not want to compromise my self-respect.' 'I was born in a house with all the facilities. I had a car and servants. I got married into a family that......

Rediff News