Pranab Mukherjee, in what is perhaps his most candid articulation of views on Singh, opens up about the former PM in his latest book 'The Coalition Years'
What foreign investors need is certainty in tax laws and not a tax-free environment, the former President and finance minister argues to justify his controversial tax decision.
Pranab Mukherjee is the ‘Bhishma Pitamah’ of Indian public life. The third volume of his political memoir is self-serving, hides too much and uses uncharacteristic innuendo.
It is unusual for the President of India to promote or take part in the promotion of government schemes anywhere in the country. But when it comes to the constituency of his son, the current President seems to have made an exception.
Kumar Anshuman
Pranab Mukherjee's budget marks the UPA-2 government's coming of age, as it backed its own convictions amid pressure from the opposition as well as from within the Congress party.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The world will remember him as the only highly educated Sikh who was spineless and who became a mute spectator when the mother India was looted left n right
Excellent analysis by the politically wisest. The man of extraordinary caliber is candidly recounted here as father of reforms. The himalayan recognition makes the narration attractive.
I miss that grace and thin smile and those bespectacled eyes, dim, full of learning. We have now a loud speaker ,talking too much,who only knows how to make people clap at his comments full of third grade wisdom.
You also have to admit that he led one of the most corrupt regime post independence.
A gracious tribute. For reasons that remain unclear, Dr Singh did not pursue economic reforms as PM, perhaps content with the surge of high growth in the exuberant years leading up to 2008. As for granting autonomy to the FM, perhaps greater control ought to have been exercised at a time when India was grappling with the global financial crisis. A bout of double digit inflation, high fiscal deficits, large loans that turned sour, the seeds of some of the problems we continue to face were sown during that time.
The world will remember him as the only highly educated Sikh who was spineless and who became a mute spectator when the mother India was looted left n right
Excellent analysis by the politically wisest. The man of extraordinary caliber is candidly recounted here as father of reforms. The himalayan recognition makes the narration attractive.
A leader at top irrespective of his Party always worked in the interest of Nation as an Executive Head of Govt.
I miss that grace and thin smile and those bespectacled eyes, dim, full of learning. We have now a loud speaker ,talking too much,who only knows how to make people clap at his comments full of third grade wisdom.
You also have to admit that he led one of the most corrupt regime post independence.
A gracious tribute. For reasons that remain unclear, Dr Singh did not pursue economic reforms as PM, perhaps content with the surge of high growth in the exuberant years leading up to 2008. As for granting autonomy to the FM, perhaps greater control ought to have been exercised at a time when India was grappling with the global financial crisis. A bout of double digit inflation, high fiscal deficits, large loans that turned sour, the seeds of some of the problems we continue to face were sown during that time.
How can history be kind to Maunmohan chingh.
This man has through his puppet stance given us MODI!!!!!!!