Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93.
K Natwar Singh wore many hats as he straddled the worlds of diplomacy, politics and writing but what remained consistent across decades was his sharp-wit and plainspeaking.
Natwar Singh's book is un-illuminating, largely self-justificatory, often contradictory, and at times tendentious. He is too preoccupied with depicting himself as a victim of the Congress party's machinations, says Praful Bidwai.
The two leaders are understood to have reviewed bilateral ties.
Amid a row over Natwar Singh's comments about Sonia Gandhi in his book, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said it was a bid to market his product and dismissed his contention that PMO files were sent to the Congress president for approval.
Jagat, legislator from Laxmangarh, was suspended from the party for 'indiscipline.'
A former Indian ambassador to Iraq has said this to the ED.
Congress action imminent against Natwar Singh when the DAC meets Tuesday night.
'We have taken it further here, we will take it further in Islamabad and then when he (Kasuri) comes to New Delhi in August,' the external affairs minister said.
The external affairs minister is slated to meet his British counterpart Jack Straw in London on June 16.
The telephonic conversation touched on all issues of bilateral interest and was conducted in a "spirit of friendship, cordiality and bonhomie," Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters in New Delhi.
Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh was on Tuesday expelled by the Bahujan Samaj Party for indulging in anti-party activities and was accused of indiscipline and lack of faith in the Bahujan samaj movement, four months after he joined Uttar Pradesh's ruling party. Announcing the expulsion, BSP national general secretary Satish Chandra Misra said it was found that Singh had joined the BSP after leaving Congress in August with some "ulterior motives."
Singh, who arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday evening on a three-day visit met Musharraf before meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri.
Former union minister Natwar SinghNatwar Singh on Saturday hit back at the Congress saying the party has conveniently forgotten that it too was named in the Volcker report as a "non-contractual beneficiary".
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
During the meeting, the external affairs minister highlighted the foreign policy aspects in the Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance government.
Singh, once a close associate of Gandhi, turned her critic after the Iraqi oil-for-food scam broke out and he was forced to resign from the government in November 2005.
During the hour-long meeting, Natwar Singh said India attached 'exceptional importance' to Indo-US relations.
Singh spoke to Rice over telephone on Thursday and congratulated her on her confirmation as US Secretary of State, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said.
Reagan, who was suffering from Alzheimer disease for the last ten years, died in Los Angeles at the age of 93 on Saturday.
This is the first time Gandhi has made her position on Singh clear.
A Bench of Justices B Sudarshan Reddy and S S Nijjar dismissed the appeal filed by Natwar Singh and his son Jagat Singh for supply of certain documents and directed the authorities to expedite the inquiry, initiated in 2006 but delayed due to dilatory tactis of the father-son duo.
Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, who had to resign from the government in the wake of the Iraqi food-for-oil scam, on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Congress. Natwar made the announcement in the presence of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia at a Bharatiya Janata Party-sponsored Jat rally in Vidyadhar Nagar. He also launched a blistering attack on Sonia Gandhi.
In a sudden move former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh's legislator son Jagat Singh on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. A sitting legislator from Laxmangarh in Alwar district, Singh was expelled from the Congress in the aftermath of the food for oil scam allegedly involving his father about two years ago
India's external affairs minister takes a stroll in Manhattan.
The external affairs minister said talks on the Kashmir issue cannot move forward till cross-border terrorism stopped.
'Bush was too committed towards Indo-US relations. I don't know if Obama is as committed.' Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh in an exclusive interview.
Justice R S Pathak was probing allegations against Congress and Natwar Singh in the oil-for-food scam.
Natwar Singh to meet G4 counterparts in London on Sunday
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