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CPC plenum backs Xi Jinping's leadership, military purge

A key body of the ruling Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed the "core" leadership of President Xi Jinping as the head of the party and the powerful military, as it ended its four-day meeting on......

Modi, Indira Gandhi and bad economics

'All of Indira Gandhi's bad economic ideas are being strengthened, from nationalised banks to anti-poverty, handout yojanas,' says Shekhar Gupta. The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is......

'The Constitution has to change ... states need more freedom'

'Though federal, the Constitution is unitary in nature. All matters relating to revenue are centralised. It is necessary that matters related to finance have to be decentralised.' 'States need more......

Rajiv regarded Pakistan as 'strategic buffer' against USSR: Report

Contradicting perceived proximity to the Soviet Union in the Cold War era, India under the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had toyed with the idea of supporting anti-Russian civilian groups in......

Why did Xi meet PLA generals?

Important for India was Xi's meeting with representatives of PLA officers and soldiers stationed in Tibet.The video of the encounter was interesting to watch, especially the large number of......

Is replacing the Planning Commission justified?

The Planning Commission needs to be replaced by institutions prescribed under the Constitution for the functions it usurped, feels Indira Rajaraman The Planning Commission was a powerful centre of......

Why Nehru had set up the Planning Commission

The 64-year-old Planning Commission, a vestige of the socialist era, will soon become history.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, on Friday announced that the Commission,......

What must replace the Planning Commission

In finally ending the Commission’s long history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vindicated those who have been yearning for a decisive break from India’s Nehruvian socialist past. An......

Planning Commission is dead, long live the new Plan!

The Plan Panel was set up by a simple government resolution in March 1950 had withstood many political and economic upheavals. Image: Era of Planning Commission. Photograph: PTI   It has......

PlanComm website archived, NITI Aayog to launch its own soon

The Aayog has been mandated to serve as a policy think-tank for the central as well as state governments After replacing it with NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), the......

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