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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

Maach & mutton for Mission Bengal. What BJP-TMC are cooking in new poll battleground

The stereotype of the fish-loving Bengali has now become a contested political site and both the BJP and TMC know it. And the voters do too.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.