Whether it was the MGNREGS or the NFSA or the Aadhaar-based DBT scheme for cash transfer, the Modi government has built on the basic architecture created by the Singh government. Policy makers in the Modi government, instead of discarding them as products of the previous political regime, worked on them, expanded their scope and reach, and used new tools to improve their performance, explains A K Bhattacharya.
The Congress is likely to get 11 Rajya Sabha seats in the upcoming election cycle with some of its top leaders, including P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, eyeing another term.
Her speech was laced with Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and even Tamil verses.
The Centre is considering repealing a controversial section of the penal law which criminalises homosexuality. A meeting will be convened soon for evolving a consensus on repealing Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, official sources said on Saturday.
Reliance Industries vice-chairman Anil Ambani on Friday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram at a suburban hotel in Mumbai.
The government and the Reserve Bank of India indicated that they could take more fiscal and monetary measures to contain inflation rate within the central bank's comfort zone of below 5 per cent. Finance Minister P Chidambaram said inflation is a major concern and the government will take all possible steps, both fiscal and in terms of improving supplies. The RBI will also do its bit on the monetary side to contain inflation, he added.
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Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for 2007-08 in Parliament on Wednesday.
The father-son duo are in the radar of the probe agencies in another case concerning the Aircel-Maxis deal.
Congress MPs approach PM to protest against Chidambaram's public remarks on blaming Mukherjee for economic crisis.
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the high growth that Indian economy has logged in the first quarter of the current fiscal was on account of the UPA policies and the new government must give it the due credit.
Swaraj tore into the Congress, saying it had helped Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India.
Jaitley has made it a habit of giving soundbytes to the media like his predecessors on why RBI should cut interest rates
Former Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government of India would not file formal charges against Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley until Ajmal Kasab's trial was over. Vicky Nanjappa reports
In his book, former governor Subbarao says Chidambaram, Pranab were piqued by his tight rate policy.
An analysis of the frequency of various watchwords in the finance minister's Budget speech shows that he was perhaps trying to hold on to his ideas without treading on anybody else's toes, says A K Bhattacharya.
'Chidambaram, lots of people argue not without justification, is all about bluff and bluster without any concrete achievement on the ground. His record in the finance ministry fully endorses that view,' argues Virendra Kapoor.
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