Singh was admitted to the hospital at 2200 hours on Wednesday and has been diagnosed to be suffering from acute Cholecysitis (stomach ailment) associated with Diabetes and cardio-artery disease, breathing trouble and kidney problem.
It is alleged that Arjun had been demanding a Mercedes car and a flat.
In both of these Hindi heartland states, the straight contest between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress.
There is, between Rao's tenure as PM and the current Modi regime, a powerful resonance of how transition can be managed. Rao's tenure saw many scams -- one where he was supposedly approached by Harshad Mehta with a bribe for making the securities scam go away. The Opposition insisted on a JPC. Despite knowing a JPC report would undermine him politically, Rao agreed to one, saying he had 'nothing to hide'.
While there is no change in the strength of the Modi-led CCPA over its two tenures, what has changed is its profile.
The alleged house arrest of Mulayam Singh Yadav by the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh generated heat in the Lok Sabha on Monday with Samajwadi Party members disrupting proceedings leading to two adjournments.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh was admitted to All India Institute od Medical Sciences Wednesday evening following complaints of breathlessness.
Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Arjun Singh, who had served in various capacities including as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, died on Friday. He was 81.
The Congress jumped into action as it found former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's name was being dragged into the ongoing controversy over Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's disappearance from the country in December 1984 after a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal killed tens of thousands of people.
The Jawahar Bhavan Trust has been reshuffled.
Former Union ministers Arjun Singh, M L Fotedar and Mohsina Kidwai have retired as trustees.
Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhi's political secretary, has relinquished the post of secretary to the trust; he remains a trustee.
Arjun Singh had suggested the organisation's involvement in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Madhya Pradesh chief minister's office has returned a Right To Information application seeking details of the escape of the then Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from India.The office returned the application of social activist S C Agrawal, claiming that there was no position of a 'central public information officer' in the office of the chief minister.
A complaint has been filed in a local court here for registration of a criminal case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh for allegedly releasing the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in a wrong manner after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
Picking holes in the statement of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh on Union Carbide Corporation CEO Warren Anderson's exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Bharatiya Janata Party asked the government and Congress to come clear on the issue on Thursday.
A TV channel reproduced Anderson and Arjun Singh's bytes, before the Union Carbide chief left the country on December 7, 1984, three days after the world's worst industrial disaster. "House arrest or no arrest or bail, no bail, I am free to go home...There is a law of the United States...India, bye, bye, Thank you," Anderson had said.
Former Union Minister Arun Nehru, a close aide of prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, claimed on Sunday that Arjun Singh as Madhya Pradesh chief minister had taken the decision to release then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson after the Bhopal tragedy and that Gandhi had no role in it.
The attack over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson on Friday appeared to be zeroing in on the then Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh, with Congress leaders Digvijay Singh and R K Dhawan demanding an answer from the veteran leader.
With the Congress party endorsing his line of action and Chidambaram stating that the Ministry of External Affairs had already begun preparing the required papers for this, it again looks as though Arjun Singh is once again setting the agenda.
On Wednesday, twenty-six years after India's worst industrial disaster, the man in the eye of the storm, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh made a statement in the Rajya Sabha explaining his role in the matter.
The mystery about who facilitated the escape of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's from the country after the Bhopal gas tragedy may never be solved.
Candidates of a teacher recruitment exam confronted police and indulged in arson while a delegation of theirs met Tribal Area Development Minister Arjun Singh Bamniya in Udaipur. While the meeting was going on, the protesters confronted the police again in the evening following which police opened fire to control the situation.
IIM-Indore chairman L N Jhunjhunwala said, "Neither the Centre nor the Union HRD minister Arjun Singh were happy with the IIM-A's step to hike its fees". He said since the country is undergoing election process, the government was unable to take any decision on the issue, Jhunjhunwala told PTI on Monday.
With the circumstances under which Warren Anderson was flown out in a state plane after the gas disaster coming under scrutiny, a former Madhya Pradesh aviation official says he received a call from the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh's office to arrange for his departure.
Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh on Tuesday favoured a judicial inquiry into the Batla House gun battle in which the Delhi Police shot dead two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists. "In democracies, it is always better to make things clear," Singh said. Singh also indicated that even the prime minister was thinking over the issue.
The institutes need to reach the optimum level of resource utilisation.
For the first time in many years, senior Congress leader and former union minister Arjun Singh's name does not figure in the party's list of star campaigners for the September 10 by-elections to two assembly seats.
Addressing a conference of the state minorities' commission, Patil said reservation has been provided for Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes in educational institutions and government jobs and now there is a demand from minorities also.
President A P J Abdul Kalam presented the awards in Central Hall of Parliament.
The condition of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi after stomach pain, is improving, doctors said on Friday."His condition is stable and he is improving," said All India Institute of Medical Sciences Medical Superintendent Dr D K Sharma."He was in an acute phase when admitted. In the beginning, we will try antibiotics to cure the infection," said a doctor.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has sent a communication to Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh to take appropriate measures to check this increasing trend in all nniversities and educational institutions.
Against the backdrop of controversy over his remarks on democracy and definition of loyalty in the Congress, senior party leader and HRD Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday heaped praise on Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi saying they have filled the void created by Rajiv Gandhi's death. "After the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a vacuum was natural... We, however, are fortunate that this vacuum was filled by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi," Singh said.
"I am pained at the needless and irrelevant controversies that are sought to be raised in the book published by Dr K L Nanadanji and presented to the Hon'ble President of India on May 9, 2008. I have no desire to join issue with any one on this matter and I respect the views of all my colleaguues, who have thought it proper to comment on it," Arjun said in his statement.
The students also demanded the immediate resignation of Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh for putting the government in this shameful position.
The book titled Mohin kahan vishram (No rest for me) penned by noted Hindi writer Dr Kanhaiyalal Nandan spanning half a century of Arjun Singh's political career is full of understatements that may kick off many controversies even while he escapes saying he did not mean it. In an interview to the author, Arjun Singh talks of the internal democracy that was once the hallmark of the decision-making process of the Congress.
The government has said it would implement the Supreme Court verdict on the OBC quota and does not want to seek a review of the judgment. Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh sought to mollify allies upset over the exclusion of creamy layer, stating the government as also the United Progressive Alliance favoured reservation benefits for the creamy layer. Singh steered clear of the demands by allies, including the DMK, for a fair and just review of the verdict.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, the man who proposed the 27 per cent OBC quota, wants to implement the reservation from academic year 2008-2009.
This year's Budget showers a lot of money for development of education in the country. In 2007-08, Rs 32,352 crore was allocated for education, which was 32 per cent above the allocation for 2006-07. However, the ministry demonstrated constraints to its absorptive capacity: The revised estimates indicated only Rs 28,674 crore had been spent.
'The India that 1857 represents is not the India where a Hindu police officer from Gujarat kills a Muslim in a fake, fascist, communal encounter.'
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said the government had, however, launched an Adolescence Education Programme for secondary and higher secondary classes.
The names for the posts were scrutinised at a high-level meeting held on Thursday. HRD Minister Arjun Singh is the chairman of the committee involved in the selection of directors. The HRD ministry had earlier asked the mentoring IITs to propose names for the director posts in the new IITs.
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