Page 10 - P Chidambaram

Punjab set to allow home delivery of liquor, likely to impose Covid-19 cess

Excise from sale of liquor is one of the principal sources of revenue for the state government

Covid-19 package has nothing for poor, hungry migrant workers: Chidambaram

"Except for the modest MSME package, we are disappointed with today's announcements," he said.

PM gave headline and blank page, hope Sithraraman will fill it: Chidambaram

Chidambaram said he would count every additional rupee the government infuses into the economy

Madras High Court dismisses Karti Chidambaram's plea in tax violation case

He and his wife had sought to block the transfer of the cases to a Special Court

Chidambaram lauds RBI's liquidity facility of Rs 50,000 cr for mutual funds

The Reserve Bank of India on Monday announced a Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility for mutual funds, days after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund decided to close six debt schemes

Manmohan opposes DA hike freeze; Sonia writes to PM on MSME package

The Congress posted excerpts from a video conference of the party's recently constituted 11-member consultative group

Coronavirus outbreak: Why cities may not remain the same after lockdown

Tens of thousands of workers who returned to villages are now similarly weighing whether to return at the end of the lockdown, which Modi this week extended to May 3.

Lockdown extension: Put cash in hands of poor, Chidambaram tells govt

PM Modi said that the fight against Covid-19 could be successful only if the citizens cooperate and maintain the discipline

Chidambaram calls RBI's EMI deferment step half-hearted, ambiguous

'The demand is that all EMI due dates must be automatically deferred,' he said

Chidambaram backs Modi on lockdown, says he's nation's commander in crisis

Chidambaram also suggested a 10-point plan to put money in the bank accounts of the poor and the marginalised, including farmers and labourers

Act boldly, act now, says Chidambaram as coronavirus cases in India top 400

The former finance minister said there will be massive economic pain

Markets reacting to govt's poor handling of coronavirus crisis: Chidambaram

Former FM says markets have taken a dim view of the 'virtually coerced investment by SBI and private sector banks in the equity of failed YES Bank'

Chidambaram calls SBI plan for YES Bank bizarre, attacks Modi govt

Blames Centre for being oblivious to a 35% spike in private lender's loan book since 2014, hints that SBI was arm-twisted into the deal

YES Bank crisis: FM Nirmala Sitharaman asks RBI to fix accountability

Sitharaman said the RBI and the government had been closely monitoring YES Bank since 2017

'No Yes Bank,' says Rahul Gandhi, accuses govt of 'destroying' economy

Yes Bank was placed under a moratorium on Thursday, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) capping deposit withdrawals at the bank at Rs 50,000 per account for a month and superseding its board

FM on Chidambaram's YES jibe: Self-appointed doctors created more problems

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday hit back at senior Congress leader P Chidambaram for his jibe over crisis-hit Yes Bank's loan book swelling five times under BJP rule, saying "self-appointed competent doctors" created more problems in handling crisis at three banks during the UPA regime. She blamed Chidambaram for the crisis at Global Trust Bank in July 2004 and the problems at IDBI which had to merge with on-the-verge of collapsing United Western Bank in 2006. The Congress-led UPA had come to power in May 2004 and Chidambaram was the finance minister. Addressing a press conference after the RBI superseded the board of Yes Bank and placed withdrawal restrictions, she said the crisis-hit lender's exposure to stressed corporates dates before 2014. "The exposure of Yes Bank to some of the very stressed corporates has been before 2014. These are public domain names and I am not violating any customer privacy Anil Ambani (Group), Essel Group, DHFL, IL&FS (and) Vodafone ...

Why pass the law if no minorities will be affected by CAA, asks Chidambaram

Addressing a rally in Kolkata, Shah assured people of the minority community that not a single person will lose citizenship due to the Citizenship Amendment Act

Limiting Centre's share might push up state's burden for high-risk crops

The difference between the actuarial premium rate and the premium paid by farmers was the subsidy shared equally between the Centre and states

Aircel-Maxis case: CBI, ED get time till May 4 to complete probe

The court had on January 28 'revived' the Aircel-Maxis cases filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate against Chidambaram and his son

INX Media case: Former NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar, others get bail

The court had earlier reserved its order on bail applications moved by six bureaucrats who were part of the FIPB panel which granted approval to INX Media, in a case involving former FM P Chidambaram