In a startling revelation, Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha has said the Morarji Desai cabinet had decided not to accord a state funeral to Jayaprakash Narayan.Sinha, who was in Bhubaneswar to......
The Supreme Court's opinion on the presidential reference can impact on any number of cases if and when governors, if not the President, take a literary view of the Supreme Court's 'ppinion' on......
Emergency was imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi just before the midnight of June 25, 1975. President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed issued the proclamation at Gandhi's behest which was later......
BJP strategists are missing something somewhere, and they have not acknowledged it, to be able to repair it in good time, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in......
Vice President V V Giri's resignation in 1969 triggered political upheavals that saw the ruling party defy its own presidential nominee, the expulsion of a sitting prime minister by her party......
Pranab Mukherjee admits the life of India's Finance Minister isn't easy. Few know it better than him. This Budget, after all, is the Congressman's seventh, only one less than Morarji Desai and on......
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was the first and only women till now to have presented the Union Budget. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday became only the second women in the......
The government is understood to be mulling an ordinance to impose penalties on anyone possessing the junked Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes beyond December 30 when the deadline to deposit them in banks......
Two days before the deadline for depositing old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes expires, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the promulgation of an ordinance to make possession of a large number of......
Such a move will help bring clarity to the Centre's estimates of the demonetised amount, reports Arup Roychoudhury.Illustration: Domninic Xavier/Rediff.com The Union Cabinet is likely on Wednesday......