Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee: The president who could never be prime minister
Mon, Aug 31, 2020
A quintessential party loyalist and the trusted Man Friday of three Congress prime ministers, Pranab Mukherjee's climb up the political ladder stopped just short of his ambition to occupy 7 Race Course Road, instead sending him to the Rashtrapati Bhavan as the country's first citizen.
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Scholar par excellence, towering statesman who always blessed me: PM Modi pays tribute to Pranab Mukherjee
Mon, Aug 31, 2020
Expressing grief over former president Pranab Mukherjee's demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described him as a scholar par excellence and a towering statesman who was admired across the political spectrum.
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Covid-19 Update: Former President Pranab Mukherjee tests positive
Mon, Aug 10, 2020
Former President Pranab Mukherjee has tested positive for Covid-19. Pranab Da tweeted that he has tested positive for coronavirus and requested people who came in contact with him in the last week to self-isolate.
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Take a look at how Union Budget presented over the years in India
Fri, Jul 05, 2019
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman decided to go with ‘swadeshi bahi-khata’ on the day of Union Budget presentation. She kept budget documents in four fold red cloth instead of a briefcase that reminds of traditional ‘bahi-khata’ (ledger). Last time, Piyush Goyal presented the Union Budget and posed with the ‘briefcase’ in February 2019 due to illness of then FM Arun Jaitley. Former FM Arun Jaitley used a brown-colored briefcase for the budget day as well in his tenure (2014-2018). P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee also used the briefcase to keep the documents. Former FMs Yashwant Sinha, Manmohan Singh also followed the tradition. The tradition of posing with ‘briefcase’ before budget started by India’s first-ever Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947.
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Bharat Ratna for Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Deshmukh and Bhupen Hazarika
Fri, Jan 25, 2019
The surprise pick among the three was Mukherjee, who demitted office of President in 2017, and had a good equation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the two-and-a-half years he was at the helm in Rashtrapati Bhawan during NDA government.
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President hands over free LPG connection under Ujwala scheme
Sat, Jul 15, 2017
In May last year, the government embarked on a drive to provide free cooking gas connection to 5 crore women from poor households in three years with a view to reduce the use of polluting fuels such as wood and dried cow dung that, according to the World Health Organization, causes 1.3 million premature deaths in India every year.
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Essel Group turns 90! Dr Subhash Chandra donates Rs 5000 crore to DSC Foundation
Mon, May 15, 2017
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India has had a tradition where successive generations take family values forward, and contribute to the family by adding their capacities and capabilities.
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Essel Group celebrates 90 years of completion today
Sun, May 14, 2017
Essel Group will celebrate its 90 years of completion on Sunday evening in New Delhi and the event will be attended by prime minister Narendra Modi, president Pranab Mukherjee and railway minister Suresh Prabhu, among others.
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India launches South Asia Satellite GSAT-9, a big stride in regional connectivity
Sat, May 06, 2017
The Indian government on Friday launched South Asia Satellite GSAT-9 with an aim to provide the one and half billion people of the region with better communication, weather forecasting and tele-medicine.
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New NPA norms give more power to RBI to settle bad loans but is it that easy?
Fri, May 05, 2017
As per the new rules, under Section 35AA - the central bank is entitled to issue directions to any banking company or banking companies to initiate insolvency resolution process in respect of a default under the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
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