'These are challenging times and we get energised by that.' 'I don't feel that 'I am tired now and I should relax', because even if someone calls us at 12 o'clock I have to answer his call.'
In a Q&A with Doordarshan, Jaitley discusses how he chose the areas on which he would spend more.
Never back down! The government has decided to battle out the controversies in Parliament and a conscious decision was taken not to shorten the monsoon session, say sources
Saudi Arabia relies more heavily on migrant labour than any other large country.
'A fierce crusader against communalism, George joined hands with majoritarian forces, never to revisit or re-assess his saffron association.' 'He was a Union minister in 1998-2004, a time when people like Graham Staines were lynched in Orissa.' 'On the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, George went on to kind of justify the slashing of pregnant women, by saying in the Lok Sabha that this was nothing new for India.' 'Thus, he was in sharp contrast to what he had himself stood for in the heyday of his political career in the 1970s and 1980s, says Mohammad Sajjad.
Political stability and a couple of big projects are pluses, but focus on medium and small industries is still missing.
Patrick Bhai and Stephen Bhai are old friends of Gujarat.
Communist China has recently developed a great expertise in 'soul reincarnation', feels Claude Arpi