Upa Governors

Amid confusion over continuation of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren as an MLA, Governor Ramesh Bais on Friday went to Delhi, a day after ruling UPA MLAs urged him to clear the air over the EC's recommendation on the matter.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has turned the tables on her macroeconomics opponents by pointing at a massive amount of bad loans in state-run banks when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power. She held "the combination" of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan responsible for...

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has said in his report to a parliamentary panel that he said a list of high profile fraud cases to the Prime Minister's Office but was "not aware of any progress" on it.

A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that is probing the PNB fraud case questioned former RBI Deputy Governor HR Khan, the former central bank official has told NDTV the interrogation was to check on a gold import scheme launched by the earlier UPA government.

The Opposition has pitched Congress's Meira Kumar against former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind, forcing an election to choose the next President of India. The election will be held on July 17. Ms Kumar, from Bihar, is the daughter of Jagjivan Ram, the freedom fighter, Dalit leader and former deputy Prime Minister. The 72-year-old is a veteran poli...

Former Reserve Bank Governor C Rangarajan, a key functionary in previous UPA governments, has said late Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao was a true reformist and his reforms had helped the country achieve good growth rate in subsequent years.

D Subbarao, who was governor of the Reserve Bank of India during the UPA regime, on Thursday said there was pressure from the government to cut lending rates but he did not succumb to it.

The government has scaled back the urgency of its search for a new governor for the Reserve Bank of India, unnamed sources said to news agency Reuters, which reports that a replacement to Raghuram Rajan is now likely to be named only after he chairs his final policy meeting next month.

It is rather ironic that for a highly rated engineer-turned-economist, the twilight of his career should have been triggered not by technical disagreements with his employer, but by a breakdown of cultural communion.

The Modi government is completing one year in power at the centre, and Arvind Kejriwal is racing towards his 100 days of governance in Delhi - and if one compares both honestly, one can see the difference.

Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi, who had taken the Union government to Supreme Court for alleged attempts to ease him out of office, was today shifted to Mizoram.

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has hit out at the UPA-appointed Governors who refused to be transferred to north eastern states like Mizoram. While appearing on a special show on NDTV, the minister who is from Arunachal Pradesh said those governors must "apologise to the nation."

Vinod Kumar Duggal today resigned as the Governor of Manipur, becoming the ninth governor appointed by the UPA regime to quit since the Narendra Modi government came to power in May this year.

The government today justified the sacking of Mizoram governor Kamla Beniwal yesterday, just two months before her tenure ends, as it confronted opposition allegations of "vendetta politics".

After forcing some governors to quit, the Narendra Modi government on Friday sacked Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Virendra Kataria, in the first such action against political appointees of the UPA regime.

Amid confusion over continuation of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren as an MLA, Governor Ramesh Bais on Friday went to Delhi, a day after ruling UPA MLAs urged him to clear the air over the EC's recommendation on the matter.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has turned the tables on her macroeconomics opponents by pointing at a massive amount of bad loans in state-run banks when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power. She held "the combination" of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan responsible for...

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has said in his report to a parliamentary panel that he said a list of high profile fraud cases to the Prime Minister's Office but was "not aware of any progress" on it.

A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that is probing the PNB fraud case questioned former RBI Deputy Governor HR Khan, the former central bank official has told NDTV the interrogation was to check on a gold import scheme launched by the earlier UPA government.

The Opposition has pitched Congress's Meira Kumar against former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind, forcing an election to choose the next President of India. The election will be held on July 17. Ms Kumar, from Bihar, is the daughter of Jagjivan Ram, the freedom fighter, Dalit leader and former deputy Prime Minister. The 72-year-old is a veteran poli...

Former Reserve Bank Governor C Rangarajan, a key functionary in previous UPA governments, has said late Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao was a true reformist and his reforms had helped the country achieve good growth rate in subsequent years.

D Subbarao, who was governor of the Reserve Bank of India during the UPA regime, on Thursday said there was pressure from the government to cut lending rates but he did not succumb to it.

The government has scaled back the urgency of its search for a new governor for the Reserve Bank of India, unnamed sources said to news agency Reuters, which reports that a replacement to Raghuram Rajan is now likely to be named only after he chairs his final policy meeting next month.

It is rather ironic that for a highly rated engineer-turned-economist, the twilight of his career should have been triggered not by technical disagreements with his employer, but by a breakdown of cultural communion.

The Modi government is completing one year in power at the centre, and Arvind Kejriwal is racing towards his 100 days of governance in Delhi - and if one compares both honestly, one can see the difference.

Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi, who had taken the Union government to Supreme Court for alleged attempts to ease him out of office, was today shifted to Mizoram.

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has hit out at the UPA-appointed Governors who refused to be transferred to north eastern states like Mizoram. While appearing on a special show on NDTV, the minister who is from Arunachal Pradesh said those governors must "apologise to the nation."

Vinod Kumar Duggal today resigned as the Governor of Manipur, becoming the ninth governor appointed by the UPA regime to quit since the Narendra Modi government came to power in May this year.

The government today justified the sacking of Mizoram governor Kamla Beniwal yesterday, just two months before her tenure ends, as it confronted opposition allegations of "vendetta politics".

After forcing some governors to quit, the Narendra Modi government on Friday sacked Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Virendra Kataria, in the first such action against political appointees of the UPA regime.