United Progressive Alliance
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Farmers' protest: Congress rejected Swaminathan Commission's report in 2010, here's why
India | Feb 14, 2024, 05:09 PM ISTIf the I.N.D.I.A alliance comes to power, it will provide legal guarantees to MSP to farmers, said Rahul Gandhi, who is currently busy with his 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra'. He also hinted at incorporating recommendations from the Swaminathan Committee into their election manifesto.
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Sonia Gandhi acted as 'Super Prime Minister' during UPA rule, says Nirmala Sitharaman
India | Feb 10, 2024, 08:00 AM ISTThe Modi government has released a White Paper which was tabled in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The document lists out economic mismanagement during the Congress-led UPA government.
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'Mera Hindi bhi thoda entertaining hai, sun lo': Sitharaman in Lok Sabha as opposition obstructs
India | Feb 09, 2024, 02:03 PM ISTSitharaman tore into UPA accusing it of economic mismanagement during the 2008 global financial crisis, saying the Congress put the "first family first" and brought the economy down to 'fragile five.
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Nation first, multiple reforms, tough decisions: White Paper shows how NDA revived economy
Business | Feb 08, 2024, 07:52 PM ISTPresenting the White Paper on UPA's economic mismanagement in 10 years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the NDA government has overcome the crisis of those years, and the economy has been put firmly on a high sustainable growth path with all-round development.
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Lost decade, scams, infrastructure neglect: Full text of NDA's White Paper on UPA's 10-year rule
Business | Feb 08, 2024, 08:06 PM ISTSitharaman in her Interim Budget speech had announced that the government will come out with a white paper on the economy outlining the economic mismanagement in the 10 years of UPA rule till 2014.
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Centre to bring White Paper on UPA's economic mismanagement, Budget session to be extended: Sources
India | Feb 06, 2024, 07:57 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government came to power in May 2014 after a 10-year rule by Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
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India 'stalled' during UPA-era, says NR Narayana Murthy, co-founder, Infosys
Business | Sep 23, 2022, 11:28 PM ISTDuring his interaction with young entrepreneurs and students at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIMA), Murthy expressed confidence that young minds can make India a worthy competitor of China, the world's second-largest economy.
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Jharkhand Political Crisis: 32 UPA MLAs parked in Chhattisgarh amid poaching fears | 10 Points
India | Aug 31, 2022, 12:04 AM ISTJharkhand political crisis: The flight carrying the MLAs took off from the Ranchi airport shortly after 4.30 pm and arrived in Raipur, the capital of the Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh, around 5:30 pm.
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Clear-headed response to national security matters absent during UPA: Nirmala Sitharaman
India | Nov 24, 2021, 08:31 AM ISTModi govt gave armed forces the "fullest right" to take appropriate decisions at appropriate times to show to the people of the country how India responds in such situations, Sitharaman said.
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Sonia Gandhi declares assets: Rs 60,000 in cash, over Rs 2.4 cr in shares
Apr 11, 2019, 04:48 PM ISTAs per the affidavit filed by Gandhi during submitting her nomination, she only has Rs 60,000 in cash and fixed deposits to the tune of Rs 16.59 lakh.
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ED files money laundering cases into Air India deals inked during UPA tenure
India | Oct 19, 2018, 04:13 PM ISTThe officials said the agency will probe a specific angle to ascertain if the alleged irregularities led to the generation of black money and if it was laundered to create illegal assets by the accused.
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No decision yet on Sonia Gandhi continuing as UPA chairperson: Veerappa Moily
National | Dec 26, 2017, 03:00 PM ISTMoily acknowledged there are calls for her continuation in the position, but said Rahul Gandhi, who assumed charge as the Congress president earlier this month, is also capable of holding the post.
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UPA's land Act was against rural areas: Jaitley
National | May 22, 2015, 04:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday that the land Act enacted by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was against rural areas whereas the bill introduced by the NDA government had
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'New funding pattern cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore'
India | May 15, 2015, 05:07 PM ISTGuwahati: The central government's delinking of several centrally-sponsored schemes and changing the funding pattern in some of them has cost Assam over Rs.7,000 crore in the 2015-16 fiscal, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday.Gogoi
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'Indian Mujahideen is not a terror organisation'
India | Apr 09, 2015, 09:15 AM ISTPanaji:Indian Mujahideen (IM) is only a "sectarian outfit" and its members are not terrorists, said All India Congress Committee's minority cell chairman Khurshid Ahmed Saiyed.IM is officially recognised as a terror outfit by the Indian
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Jayalalithaa seeks urea units' subsidy till gas change-over
India | Jun 10, 2014, 12:48 PM ISTChennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged the central government to provide subsidy to two naphtha-based fertilizer plants in the state till gas connectivity is provided to them for switch over.Jayalalithaa urged the
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Debate over two power centres useless: PM
National | Apr 06, 2013, 10:41 AM ISTNew Delhi, April 5: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the debate over two power centres was "useless" and did not rule out a third term at the helm if his Congress-led United Progressive Alliance
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DMK calls its executive committee meeting Oct 1
National | Sep 27, 2012, 12:07 AM ISTChennai, Sep 26: The DMK, a key constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre, has called a meeting of its executive committee here Oct 1.In a statement issued here Wednesday, DMK's
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Mamata's exit puts question mark on committees
National | Sep 23, 2012, 06:43 PM ISTKolkata, Sep 23: The Trinamool Congress's exit from the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has put question mark over the fate of committees constituted when that party held the railways portfolio.When Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee