Panchayati Raj is not PM's business

SRINAGAR: Veteran Congress leader, Mani Shankar Aiyar Monday said that people were the best judge and it was up to them to evaluate the facts. Whatever I had said, I said and there is no need to react to the statements made by either separatists or ...

Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, Mani Shankar Aiyar does not think that India has any problems with China or Pakistan. He does not agree with the reports that China has intruded into Indian side in Ladakh. He also describes Afzal Guru’s ...

New Delhi, April 23: A jump in the Centre's annual social welfare spending from Rs 7,500 crore in 1991 to Rs 3 lakh crore now has failed to make much difference on the ground because panchayati raj institutions are being kept away from ...

Battered by series of scams and the recent sacking of Cabinet Ministers PK Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, the Prime Minister's task to present a positive picture is not easy. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and leaders of UPA constituents will be present ...

Twenty years after the passing of the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution, actual devolution of powers to the grass roots is still a distant dream. An expert committee on leveraging Panchayats for efficient delivery of public goods and ...

In India no one person owns responsibility or can do so to stimulate interest in solving conflicts like Kashmir without a risk to their position in office. Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar admits that politicians in India are unaware of realities in ...

In a letter to Singh, Alvi said the four-year undergraduate course was being hurried through for its introduction from this year. "A major change which is going to affect without being debated in a transparent and democratic manner. Impression is ...

New Delhi: An expert committee on leveraging Panchayat Raj institutions for the more efficient delivery of public good and services called on President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday. They made a presentation on the contents of its 20th anniversary ...

It is possible to argue that the Congress is guilty of hypocrisy every time it bemoans the Opposition's strategy of stalling Parliament and aborting the legislative process. Had India's grand old party been genuinely concerned about the exalted ...