Tag: Yashwant Sinha

Hyderabad: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today suggested that the Army should return to barracks in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving the anti-militancy operations to CRPF and state police, which he said would act “like a balm on the psyche” of the people there. The former external affairs minister also said that Pakistan has become a “necessary […]

New Delhi: Unfazed by the government’s rebuttal of his criticism of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the state of the economy, including his Union Minister son Jayant, BJP veteran leader Yashwant Sinha today stuck to his guns and hoped the Centre would do some course correction. Sinha, who had yesterday launched a blistering attack on […]

New Delhi: Congress leader P Chidambaram today lauded BJP’s Yashwant Sinha for talking “truth to the power” in an article on the economy and asked the “clueless” Centre how long it would hide behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rhetoric and party slogans. Sinha had written what the Congress had been saying for the past 18 months […]

A day after Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram taunted him for presiding over "worst years" of Indian economy since liberalisation, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha Friday hit back saying Chidambaram has always "played fraud" in the Budget, including the interim one for the current fiscal

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing on a bunch of review petitions in Rafale deal, saying it will club the review pleas and the contempt case against Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s “chowkidar chor hai” remark attributing it to the top court on May 10. Interestingly, the court’s direction came after learning […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems the hon’ble members of Odisha State Assembly are very happy to oblige to the British tradition of presenting the budget at 5 pm in the evening. This is so when the Union Budget in Parliament is being tabled on the floor of the Lok Sabha at 11 am since the year 1999. […]

Kolkata: Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls. Sinha, who served in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had quit the saffron party in 2018 after having serious differences with […]