Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has raised with Russia the issue of delay in the delivery of Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy, saying it was important for India that the ship arrives in time. The Gorshkov issue was raised by the prime minister during the 12th Indo-Russian Summit talks with President Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin on Friday. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told newsmen that both India and Russia were clear that they would take action.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a joint session of the US Congress on June 22 during his official state visit to the country, top congressional leaders announced on Friday.
In his representation to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi submitted a memorandum on long pending issues of the state.
Unfazed by ally Trinamool Congress' threat of even withdrawing support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today virtually justified the hike in petrol prices, saying there should be further movement towards deregulation of fuel prices.
It's time India re-visited its Western alliances for the attitude and approach that the West reserves for the nation when it comes to security cooperation of the kind that they might not have visualised outside of China, India's bug-bear, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit to be held in the Maldives next week.
The All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam and the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam on Monday joined hands in Rajya Sabha to demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should not attend Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka in November.
In an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and to Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, the industry body has outlined its view on the climate change negotiations based on Indian industry's feedback and called for the prime minister to urge the developed world to provide technology transfer and funds to help mitigate the crisis.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is in India for talks. Sheela Bhatt reviews the relationship.
US National Security Adviser James Jones called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday and is understood to have discussed bilateral and regional issues. Jones, who arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after a tour of Afghanistan and Pakistan, met the prime minister at his Race Course Road office.
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The PM who is first among equals, who has to listen to others, take their point of view into account and who would have to be a good manager'
The CEOs Forum was announced during the visit of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao here in December.
Deshmukh, who is Science and Technology Minister, was given additional charge of the Ministry immediately after Virbhadra Singh resigned in the wake of a Himachal Pradesh court framing corruption charges against him in a 23-year-old case in June, this year.
Terrorism will be high on the agenda of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his three-day visit to Saudi Arabia from Saturday when the two countries will sign an extradition treaty. Singh will be the first Indian PM to visit Saudi Arabia in the last 28 years; the last visit was undertaken by Indira Gandhi in 1982. The prime minister will hold talks with King Abdullah on a number of bilateral and regional matters of mutual concern and address the influential Shura Council.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday sent a bouquet with a message of good wishes to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, who underwent an angiography in New Delhi.In the message, Gilani sent good wishes for Singh's health, the state-run APP news agency reported.Singh underwent an angiography as part of a series of heart-related tests at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
'The reprocessing issue requires a political decision, and not a technical one,' says an Indian diplomat.
He was a man of great integrity with a deep commitment to secular values, the prime minister said in his condolence message.
The Indian Navy is all set to join the global elite club on Sunday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh formally launches the indigenously-built nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant at the naval dockyard of the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.Prime Minister will arrive at the ENC's airbase INS Dega in Visakhapatnam by a special Indian Air Force plane along with his wife at 11 am and drive straight to the naval dockyard to commission INS Arihant into the sea.
'I give a lot of credit to Rahul Gandhi for standing up and fighting it for a long time and surviving, nobody else would have been able to survive'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday visited families of Brigadier R D Mehta and IFS officer V Venkateswara Rao, who were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, to offer his condolences. Dr Singh first went to Mehta's residence in Ghaziabad and then to Rao's flat in New Delhi and spent time with the families.
Sir Osborne Smith was the first governor of the Reserve Bank, serving from April 1, 1935, to June 30, 1937.
The Election Commission is yet to hear from the government on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's idea of overseas Indian passport holders voting in the next general elections.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned home on Saturday after a two-day visit to Bhutan.
The text of the Prime Minister's inaugural address at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2010
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the barbaric killing of Indian soldiers in Kashmir had cast a shadow on bilateral ties and asked Pakistan to create a conducive environment to take the normalisation process forward.
Joining leaders from the US, United Kingdom and other countries, French President Jacques Chirac congratulated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his assumption of office.
The radar blip on the flight path of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special plane, which created a mid-air scare, was caused by an Indian Air Force aircraft and the incident cannot be considered a serious security lapse, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said. "Primary investigation has revealed that there was some mix-up in the signals," he said. The special aircraft carrying Prime MinisterManmohan Singh had the mid-air scare on Tuesday evening.
"When Modiji undertakes a trip abroad, thousands of Indians wait to welcome him and foreign nations are eager to do business with India," he added.
Bringing back money stashed in Swiss banks by Indians is not going to make any 'significant difference' to the overall economy, Prime Minister's economic advisory panel head Suresh Tendulkar said on Monday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Reza Gilani on the sidelines of the 15th SAARC Summit in Colombo against the backdrop of a spurt in terrorist activities against Indian installations and infiltration across the Line of Control.
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington, the United States has said preparations are underway to ensure 'a good, substantive schedule' for the Indian leader, the first state guest of the Barack Obama administration. President Barack Obama has invited Dr Singh for his first State Dinner at the White House on November 24. Officials at both the State Department and the White House have held a series of meetings to give final touches to the visit.
Teen Murti Bhavan served as the official residence of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The Pakistani leadership appeared divided over the issue of "Indian interference in Balochistan" on Wednesday, with Premier Yousuf Gilani saying evidence would be provided "at the necessary forum" while Pakistani foreign minister cautioning that information was still "insufficient".
The sixth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was inagurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday. The prime minister announced that the government will set up a Global Advisory Council for Persons of Indian Origin. He said the council would comprise persons of Indian origin from all walks of life across the globe.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said in Rajya Sabha that "action has already started" for getting back black money belonging to Indians from Swiss banks.
Dalbir Kaur, sister of the condemned man, told the PM, 'I am a daughter of Punjab, please save my brother'.
Leading industrialists met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (not in picture) in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss the general state of the Indian economy and other industry-related matters.
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