Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari, reacting to Yashwant Sinha's demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should depose in front of the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, says that it would be more appropriate i...
Even though the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections are far away, a news report has named P Chidambaram to be in the lead for the post of PM. The finance minister is a new name in the PM race after BJP's Narendra Modi and Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav. However, C...
The Left leaders have stormed out of the JPC meet on 2G after asking for the Finance Minister P Chidambaram to be examined. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have allegedly backed the demands made by the Left leaders. CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta ...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G issue will be meeting today, but the BJP will most likely boycott the meeting. The opposition is holding a boycott over the issue of witnesses. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram have be...
Defence Minister AK Anthony is chosen to head the cabinet committee on political affairs (CCPA), making him responsible for the country's political affairs in the absence of PM Manmohan Singh. Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Home Minister Sunil Kumar Shinde...
The Congress has a new game plan ready to tackle debacles such as the one the party faced in the recent by polls. Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao who headed the committee formed to analyse the reasons for the debacle has said the party needed to concentrate on S...
'I can assure you that Vodafone will have the full protection of law and access to the legal system in India. I also understand there is no retrospective application of taxation and a recent court judgement has affirmed this position', writes Prime Minister Ma...
Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal courted controversy by saying that many government departments suck blood like mosquitoes but he clarified this remark was not aimed at the Finance Ministry.
The budget for the next fiscal year sorely disappointed investors with a higher-than-expected market borrowing programme sending long-end swap rates to near 8-month high.
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal came in defence of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and said that during a difficult year, its a commendable Budget which has been presented.
To deter the generation and use of unaccounted money, a series of measures have been proposed by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Budget 2012-13.
Until now the UPA’s go-to man for crisis of all sorts, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee faces his most challenging task when he tables the Union Budget.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee is likely to declare the tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh, when he will present the Union Budget for the year 2012-13 in Lok Sabha.
Army Chief Gen VK Singh seems to have won the first round in the legal battle with the Supreme Court saying the manner in which his complaint was rejected by the Govt appears to be vitiated.
Home Minister P Chidambaram should be made an accused in the 2G case as he had jointly taken the decision about spectrum prices with former telecom minister A Raja, says Subramanian Swamy's testimony.
Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar has said that export figures for 2011 may have been inflated by $9 bn. In other news, Telecom Min Kapil Sibal alleges that NDA is trying to malign Chidambaram.