Addressing the 20th foundation day of Bandhan Bank, the non-profit-turned-MFI-turned-small finance bank, on Sunday, Banerjee said there is no data and no empirical evidence anywhere to establish the ideology that getting freebies or getting free assets make the poor people lazy

Mamata Banerjee also criticised PM Modi on the death of 22 jawans, who were ambushed by the Naxals at an encounter in Chhattisgarh. \"22 jawans died in Sukma, what was he doing? He has stolen all the money from Rafale,\" she said

West Bengal, Assam Assembly Elections 2021 Updates: First Phase of polling begins today in West Bengal and Assam. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges voters to exercise their right to franchise

The Prime Minister's Office did not disclose any information regarding the money spent on preparing the PM's speeches

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India \"self-sufficient\" long before Nehru's ideas took root

The experts, including former Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon and President of Center for China Analysis and Strategy Jayadeva Ranade, made the comments during a virtual panel discussion organised by The Hudson Institute think-tank here

Himachal Pradesh earthquake news: This, however, is not the first time that an earthquake has been reported in Himachal Pradesh as most parts of the state either fall into high seismic zones and mild quakes are a regular feature in the region

On New Development Finance Institution, which FM herself announced during her Budget 2021 speech, she said the idea of creating such an institute came from IDBI experience

Stating that protests and agitations are the lifeblood of democracy, Manoj Kumar Jha of the RJD contested the government statement of 11 rounds of dialogue have concluded with agitating farmers, saying its ministers believe in monologue and not dialogue

Budget 2021 news: Indira Gandhi presented the Union Budget 1970-71 before she appointed Chavan as the Finance Minister

The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?

Business Today invited 17 of India's finest CEOs - across industries - to ask how they will do things differently from here on. Their insights on converting a crisis into an opportunity are something to consider not just for fellow CEOs and strategists but also policymakers and regulators

Twitter memes on Pakistan power blackout: As Pakistani authorities try to ascertain the exact cause behind this blackout and bring the situation back to normal, Twitter users decided to have some fun

The international timekeepers observed that July 19, 2020, was the shortest day since scientists began keeping records in the 1960s

Former President Pranab Mukherjee said that PM Modi made an impression on him during his first meeting itself when the PM-designate met him officially along with some senior BJP leaders to stake claim to form the government

Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?

The plea was opposed by the counsel for Verma on the ground that CBI had tried to summon this witness earlier and he was summoned on four occasions but he did not appear before the trial court after which the prosecution evidence was closed

Farmers' protest: Lashing out at the Opposition, Singh said that it is unfortunate that those who don't know about farming are misleading innocent farmers

National Mathematics Day: Ramanujan was fascinated by numbers and made some remarkable contributions to the partitio numerorum branch of mathematics that deals with the study of partitions of numbers

Rupa had released excerpts of The Presidential Years on Friday. Mukherjee had said in the book that the Congress party's leadership had lost focus after his elevation as President, leading to the 2014 defeat