Can the next finance minister address market concerns?

More than four years after the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced the government's intention to issue more banking licences, this has indeed been done. In 2010, there was much fervour about financial inclusion and, against that backdrop, new banks were seen as an important means of boosting capacity and penetration of financial services. It was also argued that the inclusion strategies of potential licensees were going to be given significant weight in the final decision. In the ...

Former Finance Minister (now President) Pranab Mukherjee first proposed the entry of new players in the banking sector during his Union Budget speech for 2010-11. When Mukherjee made the announcement, his speech surprised many in the central bank, ...

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram will have to do a tightrope walk as he is expected to announce sops to kick-start the laggard economy, reach out to women by decreasing duty on gold when he presents the Interim Budget in Parliament on Monday. This would ...

Last ditch efforts by finance minister P Chidambaram to get President Pranab Mukherjees nod on a slew of proposed ordinances appeared to have failed on Tuesday evening.

What could be more likely is that the former finance minister was red-flagging the fiscal anarchy driven by populist politics that is almost certain to set in across the country as election fever hots up.

NEW DELHI: After the Congress's electoral victory in 2009, PM Manmohan Singh made "the cardinal mistake of imagining the victory was his. Bit by bit, in the space of a few weeks he was defanged. He thought he could induct the ministers he wanted.

Why did Narendra Modi suddenly hark back to October 31, 1984 when Mr Pranab Mukherjee was not made Prime Minister after Indira Gandhi was killed? Narendra Modi’s recalling of the 1984 episode after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, when Mr Mukherjee, ...

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today greeted people on the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami. Conveying his greetings and good wishes, Mukherjee said, "Maryada Purushottam Shri Ram is ...

Finance Minister P Chidambaram today came down strongly against the suggestion of former media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suggesting that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was the real power behind UPA-I and said that he did not agree with ...