'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.......
If Xi Jinping is dethroned in the future, the instrument for that may well be embedded within the PLA, notes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran. IMAGE: Chinese President Xi Jinping during the......
Following Operation Sindoor in May, Pakistan's procurement of arms from all over the world is a matter of concern, while China also remains an enduring challenge amid its growing assertiveness,......
The Gujarat police nabbed the alleged kingpin of an international cyber slavery network being operated by Chinese gangs from Myanmar and Cambodia, deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi said on......
The Russians have termed Putin's visit to India, his first to this country since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, as 'Druzhba Dosti', which means 'friendship' in Russian and Hindi......
A day after Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented Budget 2013-14, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia answers diverse queries on it and related matters, at a press......
The quiet corridors of the Planning Commission were again agog with activity following talk that the central government would soon announce the former's much-awaited reconstitution. Former......
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,......
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is likely to remain deputy chairman of the planning commission, which will be constituted shortly. "I am told the new commission will be constituted very soon," a......
After many years the Planning Commission is back in the news. On Sunday, July 18, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh asked Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, and the......
The possibilities of this serviceable thriller are immense but the makers prefer to play it safe and hold back the daredevil in the diplomat's clothing, observes Sukanya Verma. The Diplomat begins......