FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 11 - The Untold Story

Ridicules KCR birthday celebrations when youths and farmers were committing suicide

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the ABG Shipyard account turned NPA during the erstwhile UPA regime and the banks took lesser than normal time to detect the fraud perpetrated by the shipping firm.

NEW DELHI: Calling the Antrix-Devas satellite deal “a fraud on the people of India and against the country” by the then UPA government, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said liquidation proceedings against the Bengaluru-based company will go on as per the Supreme Court's order.

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday lashed out at the erstwhile UPA government for allowing the deal between Antrix and Devas Multimedia back in 2005.

Read Part 1 on how the Modi government systematically made Parliament irrelevant. And then Part 2 on how the Modi government has started an era of Ordinance Raj and avoided proving its legitimacy in Parliament.

There is an interesting conversation at the beginning of 1988 classic English, August, the debut novel by 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee. The novel begins with a chat in a car between young IAS probationer Agastya Sen and his Yale-alumnus friend Dhrubo.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) put out an advertisement on Sunday inviting applications for 10 senior-level positions in various departments. The plan is to hire “outstanding individuals” as Joint Secretaries based on their subject expertise. The notifications says candidates can be “Individuals working at comparable levels in Private Sector…

In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line: