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As another election season looms, hate speech by high ranking politicians is surging - by1,130 per cent since the Modi government came into power in 2014, compared to the UPA-2 regime, an NDTV analysis has found.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily alleged on Wednesday Jairam Ramesh was responsible for "policy paralysis" during the UPA-2 government as he hit out at him over his controversial remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India's growth in a six-year period spanning both the Congress-led UPA government and the BJP-led NDA government was overstated by about 2.5 per cent, former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian suggests in an article published by the Indian Express newspaper on Tuesday. The average annual growth between 2011-12 and 2016-17 may have been about...

The Congress-led UPA-1 and UPA-2 governments delivered the highest decadal growth since Independence, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today while taking a dig at the current dispensation alleging that three finance ministers are handling the economy at present -a de-facto, a de-jure and an invisible one.

This increase in the dearness allowance by the UPA-2 government comes ahead of the imposition of the model code of conduct by the Election Commission.

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A year into power for the second term, the UPA is faced with a crisis in the agriculture sector. Food inflation is running high and policy announcements don't seem to have met with action on the ground. The fields where harvesting happened last month may prove to be deceiving. While wheat production has been bumper this year, other cereals h...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday distributed first Unique Identification Numbers (UID) to ten adivasis from the tribal hamlet of Tembhli in Maharashtra. During the occasion, the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said this would help the poor get the benefits of various welfare schemes run by the governme...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is visiting Jammu today, her first visit to the state in UPA's second term. According to the original schedule, she was also supposed to visit Srinagar later in the day, but her Srinagar visit has been postponed for the moment amid reports of factions in the party in the state.The Congress leader will meet party men ...

BJP today said the first year of UPA-2 was a disappointment, with the country facing price rise and witnessing "misuse" of CBI to control the government's allies."The first year in power for any government is celebrated with enthusiasm. One never thought that this would be one of disappointment," Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley sai...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed his first press meet in four years today to mark the completion of one year of UPA-2 in office, and spoke on a host of issues including UPA-2's performance, Indo-Pak ties, rising inflation, Naxal menace and many more.Speaking on the Indo-Pak ties, the PM said, "Trust deficit is the biggest problem between Ind...

Addressing a press meet first time in four years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said "trust deficit" between India and Pakistan was the "biggest problem" coming in the way of any improvement in bilateral relations.Singh also said India is willing to discuss all outstanding issues with Pakistan but it should ensure that its soil is not use...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today described the first year of UPA-2 as one of "reasonable achievement" but said his government could have done more."I believe that the record of our first year of UPA-II is a record of reasonable achievement. I am the first person to admit that we could have done more," Singh told a press conference here.He said o...

As UPA-2 completes one year in power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet the press today. The press meet, his first in four years, is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a m this morning. He was to unveil a report card on Saturday on the achievements of his government this past year, but that was put off because of the Mangalore air crash. A gala dinn...

It has been exactly one year since United Progressive Alliance-2 won the last elections. Most governments have a honeymoon period during at least its first 12 months but this government has faced a series of problems, setbacks, and ministers speaking in different voices, which many call foot in mouth disease.

As another election season looms, hate speech by high ranking politicians is surging - by1,130 per cent since the Modi government came into power in 2014, compared to the UPA-2 regime, an NDTV analysis has found.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily alleged on Wednesday Jairam Ramesh was responsible for "policy paralysis" during the UPA-2 government as he hit out at him over his controversial remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India's growth in a six-year period spanning both the Congress-led UPA government and the BJP-led NDA government was overstated by about 2.5 per cent, former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian suggests in an article published by the Indian Express newspaper on Tuesday. The average annual growth between 2011-12 and 2016-17 may have been about...

The Congress-led UPA-1 and UPA-2 governments delivered the highest decadal growth since Independence, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today while taking a dig at the current dispensation alleging that three finance ministers are handling the economy at present -a de-facto, a de-jure and an invisible one.

This increase in the dearness allowance by the UPA-2 government comes ahead of the imposition of the model code of conduct by the Election Commission.

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A year into power for the second term, the UPA is faced with a crisis in the agriculture sector. Food inflation is running high and policy announcements don't seem to have met with action on the ground. The fields where harvesting happened last month may prove to be deceiving. While wheat production has been bumper this year, other cereals h...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday distributed first Unique Identification Numbers (UID) to ten adivasis from the tribal hamlet of Tembhli in Maharashtra. During the occasion, the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said this would help the poor get the benefits of various welfare schemes run by the governme...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is visiting Jammu today, her first visit to the state in UPA's second term. According to the original schedule, she was also supposed to visit Srinagar later in the day, but her Srinagar visit has been postponed for the moment amid reports of factions in the party in the state.The Congress leader will meet party men ...

BJP today said the first year of UPA-2 was a disappointment, with the country facing price rise and witnessing "misuse" of CBI to control the government's allies."The first year in power for any government is celebrated with enthusiasm. One never thought that this would be one of disappointment," Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley sai...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed his first press meet in four years today to mark the completion of one year of UPA-2 in office, and spoke on a host of issues including UPA-2's performance, Indo-Pak ties, rising inflation, Naxal menace and many more.Speaking on the Indo-Pak ties, the PM said, "Trust deficit is the biggest problem between Ind...

Addressing a press meet first time in four years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said "trust deficit" between India and Pakistan was the "biggest problem" coming in the way of any improvement in bilateral relations.Singh also said India is willing to discuss all outstanding issues with Pakistan but it should ensure that its soil is not use...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today described the first year of UPA-2 as one of "reasonable achievement" but said his government could have done more."I believe that the record of our first year of UPA-II is a record of reasonable achievement. I am the first person to admit that we could have done more," Singh told a press conference here.He said o...

As UPA-2 completes one year in power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet the press today. The press meet, his first in four years, is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a m this morning. He was to unveil a report card on Saturday on the achievements of his government this past year, but that was put off because of the Mangalore air crash. A gala dinn...

It has been exactly one year since United Progressive Alliance-2 won the last elections. Most governments have a honeymoon period during at least its first 12 months but this government has faced a series of problems, setbacks, and ministers speaking in different voices, which many call foot in mouth disease.