Paying glowing tribute to former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday described him as the "first and last chapter of the Left Front government".
India has been growing nine per cent plus before the global financial meltdown of 2008. The growth rate in 2011-12 slipped to nine-year low of 6.5 per cent.
'I had to persuade him. I think he was a sceptic to begin with, but later on he was convinced that what we were doing was the right thing to do, that there was no other way out.'
It is worth wondering how far the fulsome national coverage Jyoti Basu received this week was warranted, except on the basis of his record as India's longest-serving chief minister.
Bipasha Basu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui unveiled the first trailer of the Aatma.
He will seek to finalise a coordination committee between the alliance and Left parties by Sunday.
After being marginalised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the Left parties have appealed the prime minister to issue a commemorative stamp in the late leader's memory. Anita Katyal reports.
The 95-year-old leader has been kept under full ventilation as a precautionary measure since Friday night, though he was put on partial ventilatory support in the daytime, Sushrut Bandopadhyay, who is on the medical board treating the leader at the private AMRI hospital in Kolkata, told media persons.
Film folk were invited to an early screening of this week's Netflix release, Amar Singh Chamkila, in Mumbai.
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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.
'An equity-based index fund should be held for more than five years to average out market volatility and achieve financial goals.'
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.
'Demonetisation may have been well-intentioned, but it was a major mistake. The government should reverse it. It could at least declare that Rs 500 notes, which many poorer people frequently use, are legal again,' Basu, who till recently was World Bank vice-president, wrote in an opinion piece in The New York Times.
Bipasha Basu officially launched the registrations for Pinkathon -- a marathon only for women --organized by Maximus events.
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.
'He loved reality in all his films.' 'He would say films are made for the common man and they should feel the realness while watching it.'
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Kartik Aaryan threw a grand birthday bash in Mumbai to celebrate his 33rd birthday.
'...or go to jail.' 'The government is getting them silenced.'
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Bipasha Basu gets candid about her sexy image, and her new film, Raaz 3.
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.
Paul Romer, a New York University professor and economist
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'The political situation in the country will depend on the electoral outcome in Maharashtra.'
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.
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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.
"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.
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
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.
