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The Indian Express
February 25, 2018
MAINTAINING THAT “disparities between the haves and have nots” have increased, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that between 2013 and 2017, 71 per cent of the wealth generated in India was “appropriated by 21 per cent of the population”. “Between 2013 and 2017, 71 per centÃÂ ...
Business Line
February 25, 2018
The problem of disparity in Indian society has to be resolved by the youth, former President Pranab Mukherjee said, while addressing a session organised by the youth wing of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Kolkata on Saturday. Disparity exists not just on health and education parameters but alsoÃÂ ...
Business Line
February 24, 2018
Former President Pranab Mukherjee addresses a session organised by the youth wing of Confederation of Indian Industry in Kolkata on Saturday. - BusinessLine ... The problem of disparity in Indian society has to be resolved by the youth, former President, Pranab Mukherjee, said on Saturday. DisparityÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 23, 2018
Simultaneous polls difficult, and won't be representative: Former President Pranab Mukherjee ... Former president Pranab Mukherjee Friday said holding simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections — an idea repeatedly advocated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — was “very difficult to implement”à...
Business Standard
February 16, 2018
The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology will confer an honorary D Litt on former president Pranab Mukherjee at its convocation on March 4. IIEST director Prof Ajoy Ray said it will bestow the D Litt (Honoris Causa) on Mukherjee for his role as a public figure and statesman stretching overÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
February 12, 2018
Former president Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said of the total population in the country, 2.21 per cent people suffer from disabilities and their condition has been “less than satisfactory”, despite several laws being implemented. At the inauguration of a seminar on 'Rights of Persons With Disabilities:ÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 12, 2018
Almost four years after receiving his own portrait from artist Dipak Kumar Ghosh, former President Pranab Mukherjee made an appearance at the preview of his exhibition, Eyes Say It All, recently. While the former president, who inaugurated the exhibition, expressed his admiration in just one word, "wah",ÃÂ ...
NDTV
February 8, 2018
He also advised Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to "learn" from former Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee "lessons on national security", drawing loud ... 58,000 crore deal public, Mr Jaitley said when UPA was in power, then defence ministers Pranab Mukherjee and A K Antony had on 15 occasions toldÃÂ ...
Economic Times
January 31, 2018
'Pranab Sir ki Pathsahala' launched to answer queries of youth. IANS|. Jan 31, 2018, 08.20 PM IST. 0Comments. Pranab Mukherjee The initiative is aimed at maintaining connect with the students and youth in India. Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday launched 'Pranab Sir ki Pathsahala', an initiative to stayÃÂ ...
Economic Times
January 30, 2018
Parliament disruption provides 'a helping hand' to government, not Opposition: Pranab Mukherjee ... NEW DELHI: Former President Pranab Mukherjee today said disruption in Parliament was a "betrayal" of the people and that it provided "a helping hand" to the government by scuttling the opposition space.
The Indian Express
January 27, 2018
Former president Pranab Mukherjee, prime minister H D Deve Gowda, deputy prime minister L K Advani and CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury will participate in the launch of the pictorial biography of Odisha leader Biju Patnaik at Bhubaneswar on Saturday. The leaders were welcomed at the BijuÃÂ ...
Financial Express
January 26, 2018
Republic Day Speech: As President Ram Nath Kovind prepares for big event, look at what Pranab Mukherjee said in 2017. Republic Day Speech: President ... The previous address was made by former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was elected to the post in 2012. As the country braces up to hearÃÂ ...
bdnews24.com
January 18, 2018
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has left Dhaka, ending his five-day visit to Bangladesh. State Minister for Foreign affairs MD Shahriar Alam saw him off at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday, the foreign ministry said. During his visit, Mukherjee received an honorary doctorate ofÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 15, 2018
Former president Pranab Mukherjee plea for creativity signs off Dhaka lit fest ... Dhaka: From Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann to Tagore and Gandhi, former President Pranab Mukherjee's speech at the closing ceremony of the International Bengali Literature Conference-1424 here on Monday hadÃÂ ...
bdnews24.com
January 15, 2018
He arrived at Shah Amanat International Airport by a Biman flight in the port city at 11am Tuesday, said Wing Commander Reazul Kabir, manager of the airport. The Chittagong divisional commissioner, the police commissioner and the deputy commissioner received him at the airport. He will receive theÃÂ ...
DailyO
January 13, 2018
For former president Pranab Mukherjee, life after presidency seems equally exciting, if not busy. Be it the launch of his political memoir (third book in the series) in October last year or his bold address at the Aligarh Muslim University on founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's 200th birthday, Mukherjee chooses hisÃÂ ...
Dhaka Tribune
January 13, 2018
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee will come to Dhaka on Sunday to attend a number of programs including the closing session of the “International Bengali Literature Conference” in the city. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will welcome Pranab at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport upon hisÃÂ ...
United News of India
January 12, 2018
Dhaka, Jan 12 ( UNI) Former President Pranab Mukherjee will arrive here on Sunday to attend a number of programmes, including the closing session of the 'International Bengali Literature Conference' in the city. Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will welcome Mr Mukherjee at HazratÃÂ ...
Economic Times
January 12, 2018
NEW DELHI: Sharmishtha Mukherjee took charge as the president of the Delhi Mahila Congress today at the Delhi Congress office here in the presence of senior leaders Ajay Maken and Sheila Dikshit. Former Delhi chief minister Dikshit, who visited the Delhi Congress office after a long time, hoped thatÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 10, 2018
AHMEDABAD: Former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, on Wednesday batted for design innovation useful for socio-economic upliftment and stressed that 'Make in India' initiative can provide impetus to design exploration. Mukherjee was speaking though video conferencing from Delhi at the 38thÃÂ ...
Dhaka Tribune
January 1, 2018
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee is likely to come to Bangladesh on a three-day private visit in the middle of January. “Yes, there's a possibility. Most probably in the second week of January,” a diplomat told UNB. Though the former president's programmes are yet to be finalized, he hasÃÂ ...
News18
December 31, 1999
Defending the government's decision against making the break-up of the nearly Rs 58,000 crore deal public, Jaitley said when UPA was in power, then defence ministers Pranab Mukherjee and AK Antony had on 15 occasions told Parliament that giving out such details would be against the interest ofÃÂ ...
Firstpost
December 31, 1999
New Delhi: Former president Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday emphasised on encouraging research, especially at the university level for development of science and innovation. He said India has 753 universities, 16 IITs, 30 NITs and many Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISCERs)ÃÂ ...
Scroll.in
December 31, 1999
The potency of a recent social media firestorm in Bangladesh over a photograph that went viral – where former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is seen sitting on a chair by himself with dignitaries from Bangladesh's civil and political leadership standing behind him – is a matter that Indian foreign policyÃÂ ...
Zee News
December 11, 2017
"Birthday greetings and best wishes for a long and happy life to former President Shri Pranab Mukherjee, whom we affectionately call "Pranabda"," he tweeted. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu prayed for Pranab Mukherjee's long life and good health. "I always admire him for his statesmenship," Naidu saidÃÂ ...
ThePrint
December 8, 2017
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee, who was then the defence minister, made an impassioned plea to put a demilitarisation plan for the Siachen glacier on the backburner when a resolution on the issue was being brokered with Pakistan in 2006, former National Security Advisor MK Narayanan said. CounteringÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
December 8, 2017
ECONOMIC GROWTH without creation of jobs cannot be the objective of a country like ours, the former President, Pranab Mukherjee, said in Mumbai on Thursday. He added that the Union government must keep this in mind while presenting the Budget. “We must have growth with jobs. There must be aÃÂ ...
Economic Times
December 8, 2017
Amid fears of jobless growth, former President Pranab Mukherjee today urged the government to ensure employment creation with a special focus on the rural unemployed. "What type of a growth would we like to have? We must have growth with jobs. Jobless growth cannot be the object of a country likeÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
December 1, 2017
When the Uttarakhand government was dismissed, possibly the then President Pranab Mukherjee should have held his (the then CM's hand) instead of allowing that dismissal to go through,” Tewari said. The discussion was moderated by Resident Editor of The Indian Express Nirupama Subramanian.
Times of India
November 22, 2017
BHUBANESWAR: Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday suggested four ideas to make Indian educational institutions world class. He deliberated on this while attending fifth convocation of Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (deemed to be university) here. First, Mukherjee said, the institution should ...
Times Now
November 21, 2017
New Delhi: Expressing confidence in Rahul Gandhi's leadership, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that the Congress scion is trying to reach out to people and establishing a communication between him and people at large. Citing that electoral reverses are an irreplaceable part of a ...
Times of India
November 21, 2017
CUTTACK: The recent growth in sensex trajectory is not an indicator of real growth, said former president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, on Tuesday. Speaking at a programme at Ravenshaw University here, Mukherjee said, "The growth in sensex is nothing but financial transactions taking place in Indian ...
Economic Times
November 21, 2017
In an exclusive conversation with ET Now, former President Pranab Mukherjee said that Rahul gandhi is now connecting well with public and is ready to lead the Congress. Although its an internal matter of the party to name someone from Nehru-Gandhi family but acceptability of a leader depends on ...
Economic Times
November 21, 2017
Former president of India and ex-Congress leader, Pranab Mukherjee today said that Rahul Gandhi is an able leader and he is doing everything that a leader should do. His comments came soon after it became clear that the Gandhi scion is likely to be elected as the next president of the Congress party ...
Firstpost
November 19, 2017
Kolkata: Describing Indira Gandhi as a great statesman and the best prime minister India ever had, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said she never shied away from reality. He was delivering the Indira Gandhi Memorial speech on her 100th birth anniversary day organised by Bidhan ...
Economic Times
November 18, 2017
Former president Pranab Mukherjee today called for early passage of the Women's Reservation Bill to give adequate representation to women in the parliament and legislative assemblies. Addressing at an event here to celebrate the 102nd birth anniversary of Justice V R Krishna Iyer, Mukherjee said the ...
Firstpost
November 14, 2017
New Delhi: Rich tributes were paid to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru by a host of leaders on his 128th birth anniversary on Tuesday. File image of former President Pranab Mukherjee paying homage to country's first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal. File image of Pranab Mukherjee paying ...
The Quint
November 6, 2017
Pranab Mukherjee, former President of India, is our greatest living political insider. ... India's Congress party president Sitaram Kesri (R) gestures during a meeting with reporters in the forecourt of the presidential palace in New Delhi on 1 December as another party leader Pranab Mukherjee (L) looks on.
ThePrint
October 31, 2017
Pranab Mukherjee and P. Chidambaram were both finance ministers in the UPA government but their economic perspectives were radically ...
ThePrint
October 31, 2017
Pranab Mukherjee with Manmohan Singh during the launch of the former's book. Manmohan Singh (right) with Pranab Mukherjee (left) during ...
The Indian Express
October 24, 2017
Pranab Mukherjee spoke on the need for a strong Opposition, the role of people's movements in a constitutional democracy and how India is in ...
Deccan Chronicle
October 23, 2017
This was revealed in a paragraph in the book, The Coalition Years, penned by former President Pranab Mukherjee. As a Congress leader, ...
The Hindu
October 22, 2017
“I will miss his tantrums” is what Congress President Sonia Gandhi said while bidding farewell to Pranab Mukherjee from the Congress Working ...
Scroll.in
October 21, 2017
Former President Pranab Mukherjee told the Hindustan Times on Friday that he rejected Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition ...
Hindustan Times
October 20, 2017
Former president Pranab Mukherjee, who is against the continuation of the death sentence, also insisted that it was for lawmakers to amend the ...
Times of India
October 17, 2017
AGRA: In what could be construed as a veiled criticism of the ruling BJP, Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that attempts to ...
The Wire
October 16, 2017
Did Congress president Sonia Gandhi miss a trick in the summer of 2012 by not replacing Manmohan Singh with Pranab Mukherjee as prime ...
NDTV
October 16, 2017
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee, who in his four-decades of public life has worked with four Prime Ministers, today had warm praise for Narendra ...
Economic Times
October 15, 2017
NEW DELHI: At a time when the Congress is trying to cobble together a coalition against the BJP, former president Pranab Mukherjee argued ...
India Today
October 12, 2017
In an exclusive interview with Rajdeep Sardesai, former President Pranab Mukherjee shared his thoughts about politics, GST, demonetisation, ...
