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Friday, November 8, 2024
TopicManmohan Singh

Topic: Manmohan Singh

Ramp up vaccinations, they are key to Covid battle, Manmohan Singh writes to PM Modi

Former PM says one must resist temptation to look at absolute numbers, and focus instead on percentage of population vaccinated.

Latest war cries against Naxals are absurd. Go visit Bastar, a war is already on

Every major police casualty ignites the demand for security forces to be given a ‘free hand’. But no state govt has restrained its forces in the last 15 years.

Unemployment in India high due to ‘ill-considered’ demonetisation, says Manmohan Singh

Speaking at a virtual summit in poll-bound Kerala, the former PM also said that federalism and regular consultation with states no longer find favour with the present Central govt.

How retrospective restraint prevents Pranab Mukherjee from saying he was a winner or loser

‘The Presidential Years’ avoids real political issues, refuses to go into details, hides a lot more than it tells, and is therefore a big let-down.

Modi employed autocratic style of governance during first term — Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir

Sonia Gandhi was unable to handle Congress' affairs after I became President in 2012, wrote Mukherjee in his memoir that he had completed before his death last August.

Manmohan Singh blundered with Anna movement. Modi is making the same mistake with farmers

The farmers’ movement is not about Punjab, middlemen or just about MSP. It’s a much deeper anguish.

‘The walls are closing in again’ – Why I’m losing hope in India

A disturbing arbitrariness has crept into policymaking, institutions have decayed and the economy’s structural deficiencies have worsened.

Obama was ‘doubtful’ if Rahul will fulfil destiny laid out by Sonia after Manmohan left office

Former US president Barack Obama, in his book A Promised Land, has described in detail his meeting with Manmohan Singh, Rahul and Sonia Gandhi in 2010.

Rahul Gandhi lacks ‘either aptitude or passion to master subject’, says Obama in new memoir

Former US president Barack Obama writes that Rahul Gandhi had ‘a nervous, unformed quality about him’ and describes Manmohan Singh as having ‘impassive integrity’.

Manmohan Singh told me weeks before 1992 Budget speech that he’d have to resign

In ‘Portraits of Power’, economist and former civil servant N.K. Singh writes about his decades of working with India’s top bureaucrats and prime ministers.

On Camera

Bangladesh needs big reforms before elections. Students didn’t die just to bring BNP to power

The Yunus administration has set up a Constitutional Reform Commission to draft a document that will "reflect the aspirations" of the ordinary Bangladeshis.

US President-elect Trump vows to slash trade deficit with India. How trade fared under him vs Biden

India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.

China unveils J-35A stealth fighter, with striking resemblance to US F-35. Here’s how they compare

The Chinese aircraft has uncanny similarities to the American F-35 jet. There are claims that China copied the design. Cyber theft of F-35 design data was reported in 2009.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.