December 31, 1966 per cent with non-financial, i e, trading and industrial, companies. About 50 per cent of the deposits had no fixed period of maturity and could be withdrawn on demand or after a...
A Political Commentary
Divided Room At The Top IN JUST OVER A WEEK, between two meetings of the Central Election Committee, New Delhi watched a remarkable shift in the power alignment in the Congress hierarchy.
Wages of Wavering A WEEK of inept politicking has cost Indira Gandhi heavily in terms of popular esteem and political authority. For months past, the high-powered publicity apparatus that works for...
November 5, 1966 Lakshmi as only the "goddess of money" may be an unwarranted contraction of the whole concept even if that were all, to ignore the equally passionate devotion to Saras- wati is, it...
ment and the Planning Commission who were feeling dismayed by the difficulties in securing aid for the Plan are gratified by the attention paid to the question of aid in the discussion at the...
Nanda's Ordeal THE WAVE of student unrest which is now sweeping over the country in almost unprecedented fury has caught New Delhi unawares. After the nationwide storm unleashed by devaluation, the...
Opposition to Bell Mission THE FINANCE MINISTER'S excursion into the world of economic diplomacy has almost synchronised with Bernard Bell's rather undiplomatic probings into the state of the Indian...
Whether the country would however save foreign exchange is a matter of conjecture. The sellers of unofficial foreign exchange are primarily a large number of Indians abroad who have to remit...
There is no respite for those who wear the crown. The end of Parliament's stormy monsoon session, the stormiest in its history, has brought no peace to the leadership of either the Government or the...
The impact of the Patil-sponsored revolt of Bombay legislators against the Naik Ministry is regarded as very significant in New Delhi. The forcing of a firstclass ministerial crisis with the demand...
