Ahmed Patel: Congress loses its key strategist, troubleshooter and consensus-building manThe 71-year-old remained Sonia Gandhi's most trusted lieutenant for most of her tenure as the longest serving Congress president, standing ...
25 Nov, 2020, 07.43 PM IST
Secrets will travel with me to my grave: Ahmed Patel when asked about penning memoirAhmed Patel, who died on Wednesday at a Gurugram hospital where he was admitted with COVID-19, could have been the tell-all leader offering...
25 Nov, 2020, 07.19 PM IST
Nripendra Misra quits as PM’s principal secretaryFormer Cabinet Secretart PK Sinha has been appointed OSD in PMO following Misra's request.
31 Aug, 2019, 07.33 AM IST
View: India's leap to nationalisation as world jumped over the moonIn 1964, the All India Bank Employees Association launched a campaign to collect a million signatures for nationalisation.
26 Jul, 2019, 11.27 PM IST
Indira Gandhi was the leader but sootradhar of 1971 was PN Haksar: Jairam RameshHaksar was arguably the most powerful bureaucrat in the country post-independence, according to Ramesh. His friendship with Indira Gandhi g...
15 Jun, 2018, 08.03 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi's elevation is Congress' first smooth transition in 33 yearsWhen Rahul Gandhi succeeds his mother, he will be facing a bigger electoral, organisational and political challenges than his mother inheri...
05 Dec, 2017, 10.51 AM IST
What former PM Manmohan Singh reveals in ‘Strictly Personal’, book penned by daughter Daman SinghIn the book penned by his daughter, the former prime minister reveals the secret of his prolonged run in policymaking and politics.
24 Aug, 2014, 11.53 AM IST
Sonia Gandhi didn’t choose Narasimha Rao as PM in 1991: RD Pradhan, former home secretaryFormer Union home secretary & Sonia's ex-aide RD Pradhan says he persuaded Pawar to withdraw but did that at Narasimha Rao's behest.
04 Aug, 2014, 09.06 AM IST
After Manmohan Singh, Bimal Jalan, Montek and others economy needs new change agentsIn the 1970s, the govt recruited young professionals laterally to help with planning, which later ensured a steady stream of qualified poli...
04 Dec, 2013, 07.15 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi initiates transparency in Congress, trying to understand organisational problemsRahul Gandhi has begun to bring about transparency in the organisation’s functioning within days of his anointment as the official number t...
18 Feb, 2013, 05.27 AM IST
Why India's think-tank community fails in raising funds from Indian entrepreneursThe harsh truth is that many Indian institutions are simply not good at the grubby task of fundraising, which American institutions excel a...
09 Apr, 2012, 01.11 PM IST
- PMO seeing a revival after a gap of 7 years; Pulok Chatterjee expected to give heft to the office
After a gap of more than seven years, it looks like the PMO is seeing a revival, once again. Pulok Chatterjee is expected to give gravitas ...
23 Jan, 2012, 03.01 AM IST