Supporting the industry ministry's proposal to set up a sovereign wealth fund to finance infrastructure projects, Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu on Monday said India can use a part of its large foreign exchange reserves to create the fund.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who paid homage to CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu, described the Marxist patriarch as a politician of "high values" and said he would be missed by all.
The man who could have become the prime minister of India, but missed the tryst with dynasty is no more.
Bipasha Basu officially launched the registrations for Pinkathon -- a marathon only for women --organized by Maximus events.
Why are DIIs holding such a high stake in Zee, which is beset with alleged governance issues? Perhaps they think Zee is a deep-value stock, observes Debashis Basu.
The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order.
Paul Romer, a New York University professor and economist
Kaushik Basu, the C Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics, and director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell, has been asked informally if he would consider becoming Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), a post that will fall vacant after Arvind Virmani ends his tenure and leaves to join the International Monetary Fund at the end of the month.
Reader Kanika Chowdhry sends us a photograph.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
Bipasha Basu gets candid about her sexy image, and her new film, Raaz 3.
A picture of glamour and grit in the face of an emergency, the air hostess, flight attendant or air stewardess is often the hero we didn't know we needed.
Sanjana promotes Kadak Singh... Parineeti shares throwback picture... Erica enjoys a view...
The actress is quite the clothes horse and gives us interesting outfits at public sightings.
The Election Commission on Wednesday served a notice to veteran CPI-M leader Anil Basu for using certain "obscene" remarks against Trinamool Chief Mamata Banerjee saying "prima facie" his utterances violated model code of conduct.
'On the set, Ranveer and I got along really well. Ten days after the release, Ranveer messaged me and said, you have killed the scene! For someone like him to message me just says how supportive person he is of newcomers.'
While Virat Kohli is the face of that trend-setting move, Basu Shanker, the strength and conditioning coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore, has been a silent catalyst.
Film folk arrived at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja in Mumbai to celebrate the festival with prayers, fashion, dance and bhog.
West Bengal's Left Front government is working on a proposal to find a solution to the stand-off over acquisition of land in Singur for Tata Motors' car plant, veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu said on Friday.
Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi's action of self-imposed power cuts at the Raj Bhavan was not in consonance with the dignity of the post and that he was 'acting like a child'. He said that it was an act against the state government, adding that he should have consolted with the state's power minister on the matter.
This year Bollywood will see an army of new talent and Maradona Rebello is one of the new faces that you will see in Sudipto Chattopadhyay's Pankh. This 22-year old, happy go lucky and friendly model turned actor talks about his first film and much more.
From wearing bright colours to wowing ethnic looks, Namrata Thakker takes a look at Bipasha's amazing maternity style file.
Taking a dig at BJP leader L K Advani's suggestion that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee be awarded the Bharat Ratna, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Saturday said the government will not be a party to the ex-premier's retirement from politics.
Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu sounded a warning bell at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, last week, saying that big-ticket reforms would probably have to wait to be carried out for the next government, after general elections in 2014.
The government's Chief Economic Adviser, Kaushik Basu, on Wednesday said economic growth is expected to rise to 8.5 per cent in the fourth quarter, while inflation is likely to be significantly lower from May-end
"We Marxists want to bring about a radical change since our goal is to achieve socialism to usher in a classless, oppression-free society. But it is not possible to achieve that end being in power in only three states," the nonagenarian former Chief Minister said at a CPI-M rally at the Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata.
Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also ruled out the possibility of India witnessing a repeat of the 1991 balance of payments crisis and reversing the path to globalisation of economy.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Somnath Chatterjee on Monday said Jyoti Basu, whom he considered as his 'political guru', had asked him to preside over the crucial trust vote debate in the lower house in 2008, saying that the party cannot give any direction to him as he held a constitutional office.
'Their role model is Iran: high control of the citizens by the State.' In Iran it is Islamic control; in India, it will be Hindutva control.'
'Devi has been fabulous from day one. She is a fighter.'
Communist Party of India general secretary A B Bardhan and national secretary D Raja will go to Kolkata and represent their party at the cremation.
If you think that revenue officials are going berserk, acting on their own, while the government chants the mantra of 'ease of doing business', you would be wrong. These moves appear to have full official backing, points out Debashis Basu.
Nation will not be immune to 2014-15 European banks debt obligations, says Kaushik Basu.
In an interview with rediff.com, Bollywood's Bong bombshell doles out career advice and tells us a little bit about her personal life.
A piece of slightly negative news can cause a serious setback, warns Debashis Basu.
Bipasha Basu has a traditional Bengali baby shower.
'These new laws give complete (impunity) to the police.' 'Whatever little accountability the police had, all that is gone now.' 'There is no accountability mechanism against the police for abusing or misusing in the new laws.'
The cortege will first travel to Park Street and then along AJC Bose road to the CPI-M's headquarters on Alimuddin Street. Basu's body will lie in state at the party headquarters for an hour to let party members to pay homage. The carriage will later proceed to the West Bengal Assembly, where Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will pay tribute.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances