P. Chidambaram

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) organised a remembrance ceremony to mark the 33rd death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi in Delhi on May 21. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge paid homage to the former Prime Minister at Vir Bhumi. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi also paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Several Congress leaders including Sachin Pilot, P Chidambaram, and KC Venugopal also paid their tributes.

What the defence minister said in his "historic Sunday announcement" deserved only an office order from the minister to his secretaries, Chidambaram said.

Delhi HC dismissed the anticipatory bail pleas, also declining Chidambaram's request to stay the order for three days in order to enable him to move an appeal in the SC.

India's economy grew at 7.1 per cent in the July-September quarter, the lowest in three quarters.

The report came days after Rahul Gandhi said that he will become prime minister if allies want him

For the first time, foreign assets have also been attached in this case, which includes a cottage in the UK and a tennis club in Spain

As long as he was at the helm, he resolutely anchored the BJP close to the middle and did not allow the party to swing.

The senior Congress leader moved his plea for anticipatory bail before Special Judge O P Saini, who directed Chidambaram to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on June 5 as already summoned by the agency.

Senior leader Ravi Shankar Prasad targeted the Congress and Chidambaram at a press conference which was described by the BJP as an "expose on the politics of lies and deceit" of the opposition party.

The former finance minister said the fiscal deficit limit of 3.2 per cent in 2017-18 had been breached and was estimated at 3.5 per cent.

BJP has demanded that the references made about GST be deleted from the Tamil language movie.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today raided the Chennai residence of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son, Karti P. Chidambaram in connection with a case involving INX Media's Peter and Indrani Mukherjea.

"As FM, I granted approval in the normal course of business," he said in a statement. Chidambaram's remarks comes a day after the Supreme Court asked the CBI to file status report on the probe being carried out on various aspects of the Aircel-Maxis deal.

Official data showed India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7 percent annually for the quarter, sharply beating expectations for a 6.4 percent growth rate in a Reuters poll. The economy slowed from the September quarter's 7.3 percent annual growth rate.

While urging the Opposition leaders for a debate in Parliament, he said, "Please rise above slogans and join this campaign (demonetisation)."

"This is the biggest scam of the year. This is the one that should be investigated," Chidambaram said at a press conference.

P Chidambaram criticised PM Narendra Modi's demonetisation decision saying it was a knee-jerk reaction with no thought process on actions involved and thinks none of the government's objectives of this scheme have been met.

Congress today sought to pick holes in the Modi government demonetizing Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes, saying if the idea was to address the issue of black money why has it decided to introduce Rs 2000 denomination notes, and terming the action as a "puzzle".

‘Someone who briefed PM Modi has been economical with the truth,‘ says Ex-Finance Minister after PM Modi remarked in a recent interview that he considered publishing a white paper on the dismal state of the economy in 2014.