The Latest Breaking News from Planning Commission

Minnesota Town Denies Family Permission To Build Affordable Housing Unit on Their Property

The Pepin family is suing the City of Blaine after the City Council used dubious reasoning to deny a permit for additional housing on their property.

Reason · Aug 5, 2025

WATCH: Violent Brawl Breaks Out Among Candidates at California City Hall Meeting

The incident took place during a Planning Commission meeting.

Latin Times · Oct 25, 2024

NITI Aayog stuck in partisan politics, struggles with key mandate

In 2014, when the Planning Commission was disbanded, a commentator observed that the defunct body was like “those old men who are no longer harmful but are reviled because they once were.” It was one of the vestiges of centralised planning that India adopted in the early years of the…

Newslaundry · Aug 1, 2024

Abhijit Sen: A champion of the excluded and exploited

Former Member of Planning Commission Abhijit Sen was a powerful advocate of decentralised governance

The Hindu · Aug 30, 2022

Economist and former Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen passes away

NEW DELHI: Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Commission member and one of the country's foremost experts on rural economy, died on Monday night. He was 72.

The Times of India · Aug 30, 2022

Economist Abhijit Sen passes away

Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Commission member and one of the country's foremost experts on rural economy, died on Monday night. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Aug 30, 2022

Abhijit Sen, economist who stood for farmers, rural poor, dies

In a career spanning more than four decades, Abhijit Sen taught economics at Delhi’s JNU, and held several important government positions including the chair of the Commission of Agricultural Cost and Prices

The Hindu · Aug 30, 2022

Chief Minister to boycott NITI Aayog meeting today

To protest against ‘dictatorial attitude’ of the Centre, says KCR

The Hindu · Aug 6, 2022

Tasmania's State of the Environment report is overdue and last seen 13 years ago. So where is it?

Tasmania's State of the Environment report is due every five years, a reporting requirement set down in legislation. Here's what we can find out about why the report was last seen in 2009.

ABC News · Aug 3, 2022

Continue with reform process: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

‘We should remain open, resist temptation to raise protective duties’

The Hindu · Jul 21, 2022