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TopicVajpayee

Topic: Vajpayee

India hasn’t done much on privatising PSUs. Unprepared for 21st century: Vajpayee

On 1 April 2000, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke at the Conference of Chief Executives of Public Sector Enterprises, emphasising the need to reform PSUs.

When Atal Bihari Vajpayee mocked Maneka Gandhi for picking social justice ministry

Maneka Gandhi, Founder of People for Animals and a former BJP MP, received the inaugural Neuro Inclusive Politician Award at the Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology in Delhi.

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

Vajpayee’s loss in 2004 should be a warning to Modi. Global acclaim won’t win elections

It is precisely good macro numbers and foreign praise that I submit is a cause for worry. They were not vote-winners in 2004. They may not be now.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was full of innovative ideas, many of which continue to shape India

Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a charismatic personality whose assimilative nature won many admirers. But it was his leadership that gave India transformative policies.

Indian scientists planned nuclear test in 1997. But PM Deve Gowda gave 3 reasons to say no

Lt Gen (retd) J.S. Dhillon has told Gowda’s biographer that Mehbooba Mufti’s father had sought the Army’s help to ensure her victory in the 1996 Jammu and Kashmir election.

‘School chalein hum’: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan ad campaign that’s much more than nostalgia

In the early 2000s, 'School chalein hum' was heard playing on television sets with the regularity of a daily news bulletin. It was after all the TV ad campaign of the Vajpayee govt's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

‘Hijack baby’: How IC 814 Kandahar tragedy shaped Jaswant Singh grand-daughter’s life

After listening to people’s views for years, I now wish to ask my grandfather Jaswant Singh about his personal experience of the Kandahar hijack episode.

‘Gentle colossus, statesman’: India mourns a cherished Prime Minister who outgrew his party

Front Page Today, the country mourns a cherished prime minister: Atal Bihari Vajpayee. At five past five Thursday, Vajpayee succumbed to the complications of a...

Vajpayee was popular even among citizens who didn’t vote for him, writes his PMO aide

India’s emergence as a global economic giant is something that Vajpayee would have loved to see, having dedicated his life to it.

On Camera

How Djokovic & his luck outplayed opponents in major tournaments—walkovers to retirements

By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.

Flagging growing obesity & heart disease risk, Economic Survey recommends hiking taxes on junk food

The Economic Survey linked ultra-processed foods (UPFs) with worsening diet quality and higher risks of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and mental health conditions.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.