France and India have become partners in building a multipolar world.
The prime minister wished her well during the telephonic talk, his media adviser Sanjaya Baru said. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee also spoke to Bhutto and condemned the dastardly act.
Manmohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani hold the key to South Asia's progress, observes Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor to the Prime Minister.
Earlier opposing the government's decision to disinvest 10 per cent of its equity in Neyveli Lignite Corporation, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had threatened to pull out of the UPA government.
Operations in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation remained paralysed as the indefinite strike by its workers protesting the Centre's decision to disinvest 10 per cent shares in the public sector company entered the third day on Thursday.
Will the finance minister present a legacy-seeking Budget?
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh continues to be unwell, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has postponed his visit to Australia by a day and Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat has warned that the Left will withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance government by Wednesday if the UPA continues to pursue the India-US nuclear deal.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday underwent an eye surgery for cataract removal at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. Dr Singh, 75, underwent an intra-ocular lens implantation in the right eye after a brief surgical procedure, PM's media advisor Sanjaya Baru said.
The Union cabinet approved the wage board proposal in December.
Singh accepted Bush's invitation to visit the US again and said a mutually convenient date would be worked out.
The Indo-Asean FTA provides an opportunity for India to be more engaged with the region, says Sanjaya Baru.
New Delhi can be neutral in the dollar-euro-yen dance, but it has a stake in a stable US currency.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday instructed the Central authorities to extend all medical care for Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Bannerjee in view of deterioration in her health.
This approval was given after a meeting of the Trade and Economic Relations Committee in New Delhi, Media Advisor to the PM Sanjaya Baru.
H Y Sharada Prasad, freedom fighter, columnist and the speech writer of three Prime Ministers of India, passed away in New Delhi on Tuesday. Dr Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, remembers the man who was famous for a book that he never wrote.
Rahul Gandhi, along with a dozen Congress leaders, had met the prime minister on Wednesday to demand that the scheme, which guarantees 100 days employment to each rural household, be extended to the entire country.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is convalescing at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after a prostate surgery.
"The procedure was performed to treat benign prostatic hypertrophy of the prostate (benign enlargement of the prostate gland)," Prime Minister's Media Adviser Sanjaya Baru said.
He apologised to Asma Jehangir whose hotel room in New Delhi was searched by police without any warrant.
Taking note of the inordinate delay in carrying out amendments by the labour ministry in laws concerning women, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the ministry to expedite the process.
In view of the persisting differences, negotiators of the two sides have said a political push would be required to break the logjam.
The issue figured in the talks between External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited India recently.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist also congratulated Mayawati and said it was now clear that the electoral college was in favour of a secular candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
Noted strategic affairs analyst K Subrahmanyam will head the group.
They discussed the legislation on the N-deal.
This will be the first interaction between Jammu and Kashmir's moderate separatist group and the United Progressive Alliance dispensation as part of the dialogue process.
Baru, who has held top editorial positions in several dailies, said trade creates greater security through interdependence and prosperity is a necessary condition for power.
Dr Baru and Dr Singh struck up a close relationship when the latter was finance minister in 1991; in fact, when Dr Singh resigned from Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's Cabinet over the stock exchange scam in the 1990s, it was Dr Baru who broke the story.
Senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes, who is already cabinet minister, will be without any porfolio.
Dr Singh has sent his condolences to the family members of Lone and spoken to Tarigami enquiring about his welfare, Baru said.\n
The leader of the opposition in Bangladesh is on a five day trip to India.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday returned to his residence at 7, Race Course Road from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he had undergone a surgery.
The Prime Minister's Office has denied that Jaswant Singh had named the 'mole' in his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The external affairs ministry has been asked to get in touch with Islamabad regarding Musharraf's visit to enable the government make necessary arrangements, including security, PM's media advisor Sanjaya Baru said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will watch the last one-dayer in the ongoing India-Pakistan cricket series in New Delhi on April 17.
Jagdish Thakkar, retired officer of Gujarat information service, has started attending the South Block office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The order to appoint him in the media department of the Prime Minister's Office will be issued soon.
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