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New Delhi: Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram chided the BJP over its election process for president’s post in response to the ruling party’s criticism on Congress presidential poll. Chidambaram tweeted on Tuesday, “By the way, I am trying to find out when Mr Nadda filed his ‘nomination papers’ and before which ‘election authority’?” “The election […]

According to reports in a section of the media, the Finance Minister during a book release function said that the 1991 reforms were half-baked.

Kolkata: Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, who is a leading lawyer too, on Wednesday faced the ire of a group of Congress-affiliated lawyers within the Calcutta High Court premises, as he appeared to argue a case on behalf of the state’s Trinamool Congress government against his party. He came to […]

PM said that it is the best time to set new goals in the India-Israel relationship Of course, it is the best time to ask Israel if they have any advanced version of the Pegasus spyware, tweeted the Congress leader.

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday claimed that after Muslims, Christians were the new target of the Hindutva brigade, citing the government’s refusal to renew the FCRA registration for the Missionaries of Charity. Chidambaram, who is senior election observer of the Congress for Goa, also claimed that the mainstream media had banished […]

New Delhi: A day after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha that over 10,000 teachers’ posts are vacant in Central Universities, IITs and IIMs, Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram slammed the central government, saying that this is a “year-end gift from the government.” Former Finance Minister Chidambaram tweeted, “Another year-end gift from […]

"The enacted or proposed laws of some state governments will be struck down as unconstitutional," he said.

Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that remaining quarters of the fiscal may record "negative growth" and that for the first time since data was recorded methodically, the Indian economy has gone into a recession, as defined by economists.

"Unless the government puts money in the hands of the bottom half of the families and puts food on the plates of the poor, the economy will not revive smartly," he added.