'Maybe he was wrong, but they believed he genuinely meant what he said.' IMAGE: Then finance minister Dr Manmohan Singh arrives at Parliament March 15, 1996, to present India's 1995-1996 Budget.......
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday that India and Pakistan came closer to resolving the Kashmir issue during the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government and he is not expecting......
Dr Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, had to literally face a trial-by-fire to ensure widespread acceptance of his path-breaking Union Budget of 1991 that saw the nation......
'The preparedness of our defence forces and positioning of intelligence assets were very different in 2008, so we had to rebuild our assets and preparedness.' IMAGE: Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel on......
Both prime ministers believed in crafting schemes to help the common man.Modi used quite effectively the instruments Dr Singh introduced.In assessing Modi's success with many schemes, Dr Singh's......
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 1991 Budget unshackled India's economy, significantly enhancing the economic prospects for hundreds of millions of Indians, first deputy managing director of......
The 2009/10 Railways Budget is a competent job, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday. The Railway Budget speech underscored the Congress party-led government's focus on......
Although former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's name was in circulation on Thursday for the post of finance minister, there were indications that Prime Minister-designate Manmohan Singh might keep......
In the five full budgets that Manmohan Singh presented, the country's finances showed only marginal improvement. His first budget in July 1991 was pathbreaking where he did away with industrial......
Why is Manmohan Singh the finance minister a big hit and Manmohan Singh the prime minister has, by and large, failed to live up to the reputation he had built 20 years ago? In 1991, he had......
'Even if I had the backing of a big corporate house, which I don't, in today's market, I wouldn't want the responsibility of making a Rs 300 crore-Rs 400 crore film.' IMAGE: A scene from Zora.......