DMK leader A. Raja was arrested here Wednesday for his alleged role in the controversial allocation of airwaves for second generation (2G) telecom services, three months after he was forced to resign as communications minister. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested him and two of his aides on primarily two counts — misuse of [...]
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Raja arrested in alleged 2G scam
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Chidambaram says didn’t mislead Sushma Swaraj on Thomas
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday denied allegations by opposition leader Sushma Swaraj that he “misled” the committee that selected P.J. Thomas as central vigilance commissioner (CVC) last year. “I take exception to the statement by Swaraj that I ‘misled the selection committee’ and told the committee that Thomas had been ‘acquitted’,” Chidambaram said in a [...]
Afghanistan president to visit India
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is leaving for a two-day visit to India where he is to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior officials, his spokesman said Wednesday. “President Karzai’s visit is aimed to discuss regional economic capacity development with the Indian authorities,” Seyamak Herawi said. “He will also meet with the [...]
Question of PMK-DMK alliance doesn’t arise now: Karunanidhi
February 2nd, 2011 |
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DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi Tuesday said the question of PMK being part of a DMK-led alliance to fight the ensuing assembly elections does not arise now. Karunanidhi’s remark came on his return from New Delhi. Asked if PMK would be a part of the DMK alliance, Karunanidhi told reporters that the [...]
PM concerned over women’s security
February 1st, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed concern at violence against women in various parts of the country and asked the state governments to step up efforts to protect them. “Most of the women in our country also do not have a voice,” Singh said in his inaugural address at the fourth Chief Ministers’ Conference on [...]
New terror modules emerging: Chidambaram
February 1st, 2011 |
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Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said new terror groups were emerging and there was no room for complacency even though the internal security situation in the country had vastly improved in the past year. Addressing the fourth chief ministers’ conference on internal security here, Chidambaram said: “A number of modules (of terrorists) are active. New [...]
Serious challenges to internal security: PM
February 1st, 2011 |
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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 [...]
Cash controversy: Karmapa quizzed, misses prayer meeting
January 29th, 2011 |
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Tibetan religious leader Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has been questioned by the Himachal Pradesh police and other central government agencies over the recovery of currency worth nearly Rs.7 crore from the monastery. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said Saturday he will take up the issue with the prime minister. The Karmapa, police sources said, was [...]
Return to Delhi, Chidambaram tells Sushma,Jaitley
January 25th, 2011 |
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Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday asked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley to respect the orders of the Jammu and Kashmir government and call off their planned flag-hoisting in Srinagar by giving up the “path of confrontation”. “I would request the two leaders of the opposition and their colleagues to [...]
US lifts 12-year export controls on Indian space, defence cos.
January 25th, 2011 |
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The United States Monday lifted a 12-year-old export control ban on nine Indian space and defence-related companies, removing them from the so-called Entity List in a move expected to drive hi-tech trade and forge closer strategic ties with India. The companies removed from the export control list for sensitive items – mandatingput export-licence requirements on [...]
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 [...]
Patel, Khursheed, Jaiswal promoted to cabinet
January 19th, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday promoted three ministers to cabinet rank — Praful Patel, Shriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khursheed. Patel, a member of key ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), gets heavy industries and public enterprises. Congress veteran Khursheed is water resources minister with additional charge of minority affairs and Jaiswal is coal minister.
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 [...]
Sonia calls on PM, cabinet reshuffle likely
January 18th, 2011 |
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid speculation about an imminent reshuffle of the union council of ministers. Gandhi, the chief of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), met Manmohan Singh at his 7 Race Course Road residence in New Delhi for nearly two hours, party sources disclosed. She was accompanied [...]
President, PM condole Sabarimala stampede deaths
January 15th, 2011 |
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President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday condoled the deaths of over 100 people in a stampede near Kerala’s Sabarimala temple. The prime minister has sanctioned Rs.1 lakh as compensation to the kin of the dead and Rs.50,000 for those injured. President Patil, in letters to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and Governor R.S. [...]
Government agonises on ways to curb rising prices
January 12th, 2011 |
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Consultations among senior ministers of the government on how to curb rising food prices continue Wednesday as a follow-up to the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue. That meeting ended with a few measures suggested, but none were announced. “Ministers will hold more meetings today on the issue,” an official in [...]
Terror can’t be ignored for friendly ties with Pakistan: Krishna
January 11th, 2011 |
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Asking Pakistan to fulfil its assurances of disbanding the terror infrastructure on its soil, India Tuesday said it was willing to go “more than half the way” to hold peace talks with the neighbour but terrorism could “not be shoved” under the carpet External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, during an interaction with visiting journalists from [...]
PM-led meet on price rise ends inconclusively
January 11th, 2011 |
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A meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held with senior cabinet ministers and officials Tuesday, to discuss measures to check rising food prices, ended inconclusively. According to a senior official, the high-level meeting will take place again Wednesday or Thursday. The meeting began around 10.30 a.m. at the prime minister’s 7, Race Course Road residence. Finance [...]
India’s rise welcomed as positive factor: PM
January 8th, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the world expected India to play a more important role in the global polity and economy as the country’s rise as an emerging nation was seen as a positive factor in international relations. “The world expects India to play a more important role in the management of global polity [...]
NRIs on electoral rolls soon, single card for diaspora: PM
January 8th, 2011 |
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India will merge the two visa facilitation cards that are issued to people of Indian origin and soon register non-resident Indians in the electoral rolls to help them exercise their franchise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. “We recently reviewed the Overseas Citizenship of India Card and Person of Indian Origin Card. We have decided [...]