Excerpts from Pranab Mukherjee’s autobiographical account of the coalition era, The Coalition Years: 1996-2012. KESRI’S ‘MERE PAAS WAQT NAHIN HAI’ Kesri’s tenure as treasurer was sixteen years long and he became a butt of a few jokes within the AICC, with one being about his accounting procedures: ‘Na khaata, na bahi, jo Kesriji kahen wahi sahi.’ As Congress president, Sitaram …
Donald Trump will be the next US President. It is known that the US is India’s second-largest trade partner with total trade in goods and services of about $200 billion, and here service exports play a major part. In September last year, US trade representative Katherine Tai announced that India and the US had agreed to resolve their last outstanding …
Recent media pieces have speculated on whether India’s fraught relations with China are headed towards a relative thaw and suggestions are being put forward for a more liberal attitude towards foreign direct investment from that country. The economic commentary Despite this national security situation, the Economic Survey 2024 has favoured India plugging itself into China’s supply chains through Chinese investments …
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned for a third straight term after his election victory in June. It was during Modi’s first two terms that India experienced its worst border incidents with China in decades—the Doklam standoff in 2017 and the deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in 2020. These two events, coupled with China’s increasing influence in South …