Parliament mourns Narasimha Rao

Both Houses of Parliament were on Thursday adjourned sine die following former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao's death.Also Read'PV': A scholar and a statesmanA two-minute silence was observed in......

Tributes pour in for Narasimha Rao

Several leaders, including Union ministers P Chidambaram, Sharad Pawar and Lalu Prasad, and the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jaswant Singh on Friday paid homage to former prime minister P V Narasimha......

10 years after death, Narasimha Rao gets memorial in Delhi

Ten years after his demise, former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, who was disowned by Congress and denied a memorial in Delhi by its government, has finally got his due respect in the form of a......

Narasimha Rao deserved Bharat Ratna: Sanjaya Baru

The Congress party shut the gates of its headquarters and refused to bid official farewell on the death of former prime minister and party president Narasimha Rao, whose ‘crime’ was to......

Singh and the Sensex

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......

Reforms taking a back seat in India?

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......

Of economics and India's 'look east' policy

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......

How serious is the Left on FDI?

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......

Why Bharat Ratna still eludes Major Dhyan Chand?

'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......