Calling for a tight monetary and fiscal policy amidst global uncertainties and upcoming general elections, a foreign brokerage has warned of worsening fiscal position due to poll-related spending spree before next May when the new Parliament has to be instituted.
Author: NT Bureau
Veteran BJP leader L K Advani and his daughter Pratibha Advani with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and his family paid their homage to Vajpayee at the BJP headquarters.
“We had the privilege of knowing Atalji for several decades, from the time he was a member of Parliament. He was a wise and able political leader, a great human being, and also a poet. He was truly a colossus,” Hinduja said adding,”It is a great loss to he world and to all of us in the family.”
He will be remembered for his outreach to Pakistan. In February 1999, India and Pakistan launched the New Delhi-Lahore bus service thanks to his efforts.
It was an evening at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi in 2011 that an unknown woman till then, Chinnapillai, would never forget. It was the time she met the then Prime Minister A B Vajpayee for the first time.
Flood alert has been sounded in 11 districts of Tamilnadu as rain continues to pound various parts of the State as well as the riparian states.
The Tamilnadu government has declared a public holiday tomorrow as a mark of respect to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who passed away this evening in Delhi.
As part of its centenary celebrations, the State Forest Research Institute, located at Kolapakkam, near Chennai, launched its Forest Genetic Resources Tree Park at Kolapakkam.