Manmohan Singh dies: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92 on Thursday night at AIIMS, New Delhi. Known as the architect of economic reforms, Singh served as India’s 13th PM from 2004 to 2014.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi turns 54 on June 19, 2024. Born into a prominent political family, his early education was at The Doon School, followed by studies in Florida and Cambridge. Rahul entered politics in 2004, winning the Amethi seat.
Hamid Ansari said falsehood is being unleashed that while "as ambassador to Iran, I had betrayed the national interest in a matter for which allegations have made by a former official of a government agency."
Talwar, currently in judicial custody in a money laundering case related to the scam, has allegedly played a role in some aviation deals during the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) regime at the Centre for which he was under the scanner.
"An amount of around 70 million euros was paid through two middlemen," ED told the court.
The then comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Rai came out with a report in 2010 which pegged notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer due to 2G spectrum allocation.
Speaking at the 90th AGM of industry association FICCI, Modi said that the non-performing asset (NPA) or bad loans problem is a "liability" handed over by "economists" in the previous regime.
P Chidambaram said the Modi government could recover fake currency only to the tune of Rs 41 crore, which accounted for only 0.0027 per cent of the total currency that came back into the system following notes ban.
Chidambaram, 72, was made the Finance Minister in 2004 when the Congress-led UPA had stormed to the power. He was, however, shifted to the Ministry of Home Affairs in in November 2008 in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Pranab Mukherjee, however, he rubbishes the perception that Manmohan Singh was an "accidental Prime Minister".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today slammed the previous Congress-led UPA over the state of healthcare sector in the country
On Sunday, Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit his birthplace Vadnagar for the first time after becoming Prime Minister.
Finance Ministry said that it is examining three reports on the quantum of black money held by Indians inside the country and abroad that were commissioned by UPA regime.
The intercepted conversations were recently aired by a TV channel.
Admitting that Aadhaar was a “great initiative” of the previous UPA government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said it was being expanded by making the card mandatory for direct benefit transfer of subsidy and checking of tax evasion.
The Supreme Court has directed the CBI to complete probe into the alleged Rs 70,000-crore scam in purchase and leasing of 111 aircraft by Air India during UPA-I regime in 2005-06.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday again took on former prime minister Manmohan Singh for calling the demonetization policy ‘monumental mistake’ and an ‘organised plunder’.
Dahod (Gujarat): The previous UPA government left “empty coffers” after its 10-year rule which made it difficult for the present NDA dispensation to work for the poor, BJP president Amit Shah said in Dahod on
New Delhi: An Italian court has observed that the erstwhile UPA government held back key information and showed substantial disregard in arriving at the complete truth behind Rs 3,565-crore deal VVIP chopper scandal. According to
New Delhi: Manmohan Singh's selection over Pranab Mukherjee in 2004 to head the UPA government came as a surprise not only to the Congress but also to outsiders and many argue the party might have
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