The year was 1984 and chief minister NT Rama Rao (NTR) and BPR Vithal, deputy chairman, Planning Board were engaged in a deep conversation. Vithal suggested additional taxes to fund NTR's rather large ...

On June 19, some of India's leading economists, former bureaucrats and regulators led by Y V Reddy, the former governor of the RBI, gathered in Hyderabad to release a book "Centre-State Relations in ...

Noted economist B P R Vithal, who served as a member of the Tenth Finance Commission, died in Hyderabad on Friday. IMAGE: Economist BPR Vithal. Photograph: Courtesy, Vice President of India on Twitter ...

B.P.R. Vithal, former IAS officer of the 1950 batch, passed away here early on Friday. He was 93. He is survived by wife Seshu, daughter Nivedita Kumar, sons Sanjaya Baru and Chaitanya Baru. Mr.