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SC strikes balance between graft charges, parliamentary privilege

In its Monday verdict, a seven-judge bench ruled there is no immunity for lawmakers who receive bribes for casting votes on the floor of the House.

Bharat Ratna: BJP hopes to gain electorally with choice of awardees

By picking PV Narasimha Rao for Bharat Ratna, BJP is hopeful that it will gain electorally in Telangana

BSP chief Mayawati demands Bharat Ratna for Dalit icon Kanshi Ram

Kanshi Ram, a supporter of Bhimrao Ambedkar, died at the age of 72 in 2006.

Govt expedited reforms by Narasimha, says vice-president Naidu

Rao and then-finance minister Manmohan Singh in the early 1990s initiated the reforms that dismantled the so-called License Raj of approvals and red tape that stifled businesses for much of the first four decades of independence, and opened India up to foreign investment.

‘Agri reforms were introduced during Narasimha Rao regime, are irreversible’: Venkaiah Naidu

Naidu reminded that the reforms process was later carried forward by the Vajpayee government and is now being implemented more vigorously by the present Modi government.

AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi, BJP leader Bandi Sanjay Kumar booked for comments on ex-PM and TDP founder

Akbaruddin Owaisi, younger brother of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, courted a controversy, asking whether ‘samadhis’ of former PM PV Narasimha Rao and TDP founder NT Rama Rao on Hussain Sagar lake bank would be removed.

Manmohan Singh birthday: Former prime minister turns 88

Before he became the prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s brightest moment was ushering in the 1991 economic reforms under the Narasimha Rao government. He was Rao’s finance minister.

Bharat Ratna for Narasimha Rao, says Telangana assembly; Owaisi’s AIMIM disagrees

Telangana Congress has supported KCR’s push for Bharat Ratna for former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao

Congress celebration of PV Narasimha Rao just for show, alleges grandson

PV Narsimha Rao’s grandson alleged that Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi released a video in which they read out a script written by someone else.

Narasimha Rao can truly be called father of economic reforms in India: Manmohan Singh

Recalling that he as finance minister in the Narasimha Rao cabinet had dedicated his first budget to the memory of Rajiv Gandhi, Singh said the 1991 budget changed India in many ways as it ushered in economic reforms and liberalisation.

TRS, Congress in tussle to claim legacy of ex-PM Narasimha Rao

TRS supremo and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR, made a strong pitch for conferring Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, on Rao and placed him at par with the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

‘Great political leader and scholar’: PM Modi pays tribute to PV Narasimha Rao

This is not the first time that PM Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have paid tribute to PV Narasimha Rao. The BJP has repeatedly raised the issue of Rao not being given due honour by the Congress party after his death.

Memorial, 5 statues as Telangana celebrates Narasimha Rao’s birth centenary

The arrangements are in full swing at Gyan Bhoomi - the samadhi of Narasimha Rao at Necklace Road in Hyderabad on the banks of Hussainsagar lake - for the centenary celebrations.

When Narasimha Rao rejected Benazir’s ‘tea diplomacy’ in London

According to declassified papers released by Britain’s National Archives, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao did not doubt Benazir Bhutto’s good intentions, but thought “she was immature and was not mistress in her own house”.

From Indo-Pak to Chindia and back to Indo-Pak, writes Ramachandra Guha

Since May 2014, there has been a rapid fall in India’s standing in the world — from being seen with China as an emerging global power to being coupled with Pakistan as an insular, inward-looking nation plagued by authoritarianism and religious bigotry

Interpreting Singh’s 1984 revelation, writes Shashi Shekhar

Despite his respect for PV Narasimha Rao, why did Manmohan Singh say what he did?

What India can learn from Bangladesh’s success |Opinion

India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh has said India benefitted from reaching the verge of bankruptcy in 1990 because the crisis enabled him and then prime minister Narasimha Rao to overcome the political opposition to the reforms they believed were needed. Bangladesh, it seems to me, also benefitted from the economic crises

PM Modi, BJP leaders try to appropriate legacy

The barrage of praise for late PM Narasimha Rao comes a day after Narendra Modi criticized the Congress party for only highlighting the achievements of its first family and neglecting others.

Narasimha Rao sidelined to keep focus on Gandhis, says grandson who joined BJP

Rao’s grandson, NV Subhash, who is now affiliated to the BJP, claimed that Congress leaders did not pay respects to the former prime minister on his birth anniversary today.

‘Thus far and no further’: PM Modi’s sharp warning to Congress in Lok Sabha

PM Modi on Tuesday treated the Congress as his punching bag in the Lok Sabha during his reply to a discussion in Lok Sabha, rebutting criticism that the NDA government had attempted to corner credit for India’s development and belittled his predecessors.

Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi quitting isn’t a bad idea

The Congress has been in a state of decline for two decades and it’s now time to reinvent itself

Three templates Rahul Gandhi and Congress can replicate | Opinion

If he does quit as Congress president, a more compelling parallel for Rahul Gandhi could be the one of PV Narasimha Rao who, after the party’s 1996 defeat, gave up the top organisational office.

Quoting Narasimha Rao, BJP targets Rahul Gandhi over ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan

Referring to Indira Gandhi’s ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan in 1971 Lok Sabha election, the BJP has hit out at Rahul Gandhi saying that the Congress is making the same promise for 2019 parliamentary polls.

Don’t wear Lenin on my sleeve: Yechury on Communism, the Emergency and more

Different strokes: A look at the other life of CPI(M) general secretary, Sitharam Yechury.

A look at the Independence Day speeches made by prime ministers since 1991

How does your Prime Minister’s Office function: Narasimha Rao had asked UK

After former finance minister Manmohan Singh launched major reforms in 1991, then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao was so frustrated with bureaucratic delays that he sent this “unusual enquiry” to London.

CBI court imposes ₹100 crore fine on two Turkish nationals in urea scam case

A special CBI court on Thursday imposed ₹100 crore fine on two Turkish nationals in the 23-year-old ₹133 crore urea scam case and sentenced them to six years rigorous imprisonment along with the kin of former PM Narasimha Rao and an ex-union minister.

Review: A Bonsai Tree by Narendra Luther

One of the first officers of the IAS, Narendra Luther’s autobiography is particularly interesting for its anecdotes featuring, Nehru, PV Narasimha Rao, and NT Rama Rao, among others

When India began to take the East seriously

HT looks back to 1992 when the then prime minister, PVL Narasimha Rao, first announced the largely economic Look East policy and how it evolved into a cornerstone of India’s strategic doctrine

Andhra woman beats her baby to death in a fit of rage, commits suicide

The woman was irritated with her daughter’s repeated crying while she was working.