Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, in his famous speech at Avadi near Chennai in 1955, spelt out the conditions for inclusive growth.

maharashtra is planning to amend the state employment guarantee act to divert the reserve fund to other projects. The move comes when the union government is trying to fortify the National Rural

July 10, 2006: Industrialist Ratan Tata writes to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram recommending setting up of a site remediation fund. "Tatas would be willing to spearhead and contribute to such an exercise

WHILE announcing the Rs.60,000-crore debt relief for farmers, it was clear that Finance Minister P.

The judgment one reaches on what the current year's Budget will do for farmers will vary depending on whether its provisions are seen as a sui generis exercise or are viewed within a longer term per

ON a first reading, it may appear that the Union government's Budget for 2008-09 is very different from the neoliberal Budgets of the last decade and a half or more.

There were no gasps of surprise when Palaniappan Chidambaram, Indian finance minister, unveiled a populist budget aimed at boosting the chances of the Congress-led governing alliance in the general el

On February 29 when Finance Minister P. Chidambaram takes guard, his batting average is going to look almost Bradmanesque.