Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh as well as Green Revolution pioneer M S Swaminathan will be conferred the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday.......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday broke Indira Gandhi's record by delivering 12 consecutive speeches from the ramparts of Red Fort to stand next only to Jawaharlal Nehru who delivered 17......
Nearly 25 years after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha bribery scandal rocked the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to reconsider its 1998 judgment granting MPs and MLAs immunity from......
The hotly debated 1998 JMM bribery case judgment, which protected former Union minister Shibu Soren from prosecution, was overturned by a seven-judge bench on Monday, ironically following a......
The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and green revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country's......
The Sensex rose steeply in early 1992. From 2,000 on January 15, it had touched 4,000 by the end of March. That was also the period when the Harshad Mehta-induced securities scam hit the markets......
While previous governments had shied away from reforms, the PV Narasimha Rao's government launched broad reforms encompassing the real, external, monetary, financial and fiscal sectors. ......
It takes several years before a mindset changes. This became most obvious when the general mindset on economic reforms changed in the mid-1990s. The PV Narasimha Rao government, with Manmohan Singh......
Over a decade ago, PV Narasimha Rao had postulated a 'look east' policy for India. In view of the dynamism of the Asian economies in the early 1990s, it made sense to take advantage of the......
In the early 1990s, when economic liberalisation was just ushered in by the PV Narasimha Rao government, several officials working in different departments of the government would often express......
'If the country's biggest sports award is named after him, the National Stadium is named after him, then why not he is given a Bharat Ratna.' IMAGE: Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya pays......