The internal security situation was by and large stable but serious challenges and threats remained, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Tuesday. Addressing a meeting of chief ministers on internal security here, the prime minister said there were “serious challenges and threats” from left wing extremism, cross border terrorism and fundamentalism. He said left wing [...]
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Three new ministers in Manmohan team
January 19th, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday inducted three new faces in his team of ministers. They are Beni Prasad Verma, who has been made minister of state for steel (Independent Charge); K.C. Venugopal, minister of state for power; and Ashwani Kumar, who has been made minister of state for planning and parliamentary affairs and science and [...]
Manmohan Singh a failure on economic front, says BJP
January 18th, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his “poor economic policy” were responsible for the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said here Tuesday. “The country is suffering because of the poor economic policy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,” Gadkari said. Addressing a press conference at this Orissa capital city, he [...]
BJP demands immediate resignation of Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan
October 30th, 2010 |
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded the immediate resignation of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan for his role in the Adarsh Society scam. Accusing Chavan of nepotism, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said that he should not be given time to leave office in an honourable manner. “We demand the immediate resignation of Mr. [...]
Use new technologies to fight corruption: PM to civil servants
April 21st, 2010 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday asked civil servants to use information technology (IT) to fight corruption and ensure that the poor get equitable benefits of the government’s developmental schemes.
“It is incumbent upon us to ensure that no area of our country is denied the benefits of our ambitious developmental programmes,” Manmohan Singh said, addressing a [...]
Extremism flourishes due to under-development, says PM
April 21st, 2010 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that those “challenging the authority of the Indian state” will not be given any quarter even as he admitted that Maoist insurgency is the result of under-development.
“No quarter can be given to those who have taken upon themselves to challenge the authority of the Indian state and the fabric [...]
Hurt Tharoor says he is ready for ‘thorough probe’
April 20th, 2010 |
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Two days after being forced to quit over his alleged links to the Kochi IPL franchise, former minister Shashi Tharoor Tuesday said he had done no wrong and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to probe the charges of impropriety and corruption hurled against him.
As the Lok Sabha listened with rapt attention, Tharoor, speaking for the [...]
No post-resignation tweets from Tharoor
April 19th, 2010 |
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For a voracious tweeter, Shashi Tharoor has not tweeted anything since the final run up to his resignation as minister of state for external affairs.
Tharoor was quite regular at updating his statements, work or visits with over 725,000 followers. However, there has been no update from him since Friday.
Tharoor quit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government [...]
World has benign view of India’s rise: Manmohan
April 17th, 2010 |
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The world takes a “benign view” of India and is not worried about its rise, unlike the case of China, and India should take advantage of it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday.
“The world takes a benign view of India. They want us to succeed,” Manmohan Singh told journalists on board his special aircraft Air [...]
Unlike China, world takes a benign view of India: PM
April 17th, 2010 |
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Afer meeting nearly 50 world leaders in the past week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said that unlike the rise of China, the world takes a benign view of India.
“The world takes a benign view of India. They want us to succeed,” Manmohan Singh told journalists on board his special aircraft while returning from an [...]
Obama to visit India in August or October: Manmohan
April 17th, 2010 |
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US President Barack Obama will visit India in August or October, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday.
Obama will come to India in August or October, the dates have not yet been finalised, Manmohan Singh told journalists when asked about the US president’s visit to India.
The prime minister Saturday returned home after an eight-day visit to [...]
Manmohan Singh returns home
April 17th, 2010 |
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday returned to New Delhi after an eight-day visit to the US and Brazil where he participated in three multilateral summits and held over half a dozen bilateral meetingS with world leaders.
India to send letter to US for access to Headley
April 17th, 2010 |
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Armed with support from US President Barack Obama, India will now send a formal letter to the US for access to David Coleman Headley, one of the plotters of the Mumbai terror attacks who is in the US custody.
“We are still going through the legal process,” sources said Saturday, five days after Indian Prime Minister [...]
Manmohan arrives in Brazil for IBSA, BRIC summits
April 15th, 2010 |
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the Brazilian capital Wednesday to attend two back-to-back multilateral summits that aim at greater cooperation among top emerging economies of the world.
Manmohan Singh was accorded a colourful ceremonial welcome at the Brasilia airbase. He was warmly received by Brazil’s Defence Minister Nelson Jobim.
He will participate in the IBSA [...]
Manmohan Singh to attend two summits in Brazilian capital
April 14th, 2010 |
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Heads of state and government from India, Brazil, South Africa, China and Russia will meet this week in the Brazilian capital for the fourth India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and the Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) summits here. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who attended the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, will attend both the summits.
The fourth IBSA [...]
No drift in India-US ties: Manmohan
April 14th, 2010 |
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Discounting suggestions that Indo-US relations were in a drift or were not as warm as they used to be under the previous Bush administration, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the two countries enjoyed a multi-faceted relationship and was not just a “single track operation”.
“Well I have a very good relationship with President Obama. So I [...]
IPL row: BJP wants PM to sack Tharoor
April 13th, 2010 |
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for allegedly misusing his official position to secure an Indian Premier League (IPL) deal for his friend Sunanda Pushkar.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the [...]