Unidentified assailants hurled bombs and opened fire outside the residence of BJP leader and former MP Arjun Singh in Bhatpara, West Bengal, injuring a youth. Singh alleged that Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Sunita Singh's son, Namit Singh, was behind the attack. Police are investigating the incident and have deployed security forces in the area.
A master manipulator of power politics, Arjun Singh was a one-time Congress bigwig who was known to set his eyes on the highest political throne but saw his political fortunes dwindle in the last decade and a half.
Singh himself inaugurated the Noam Chomsky complex in the campus that will house the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, the Munshi Premchand Archives and Literary Centre and a boys' hostel.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh was admitted to All India Institute od Medical Sciences Wednesday evening following complaints of breathlessness.
Arjun Singh said he will speak after election results are out.
The Minister was speaking on the occasion of International Literacy Day.
A pregnant woman and her unborn child died during delivery at an unregistered "hospital" in Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, India. Police arrested an unqualified woman posing as a doctor who was running the facility.
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.
Two bogeys on the last four holes cost Arjun Singh his first Asian PGA \n\ntitle, as he finished second in the season-ending Volvo Masters of Asia
Sharad Pawar is at the receiving end of late Congress veteran Arjun Singh who has accused him of being flip-flop, unreliable and fickle and wondered when the "final rupture" would take place between him and the Congress.
The Union human resource development minister allegedly held the RSS responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday visited the residence of Arjun Singh to pay their last respect to the party veteran who died in New Delhi.
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 Union HRD minister alleged that the RSS swears by the philosophy of hate and violence.
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.
Indian shooting ace Elavenil Valarivan settled for the bronze medal after leading for a good part of the women's 10m air rifle final on the first competition day of the ISSF World Cup in Munich on Tuesday.
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.
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.
"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.
It is alleged that Arjun had been demanding a Mercedes car and a flat.
Mukesh Ambani's Antilia includes a private theatre that seats over 50, a snow room, and even an ice cream parlour. If that's not redefining home entertainment, what is?
The organisation has threatened to file a criminal defamation case against the HRD Minister under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code.
The new Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh said that institutions of higher learning would be given full autonomy and that he would hold dialogue with them on the issue.
The lanky golfer from Delhi fired a sizzling six-under 66 on the final day to win the 13th event on the Amby Valley PGAI Tour.
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.
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.
Former Lok Sabha MP and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arjun Singh alleged that a group of people threw stones, hurled bombs and fired multiple gunshots at his office-cum-residence Meghna More in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas around 8.30 am on Friday.
The ace Indian golfer, chasing his first victory on the Davidoff Tour, fired a four-under-par 68 to join the South African at the top of theleaderboard in the Volvo Masters of Asia.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to entrust the anti-dowry case registered against Arjun Singh and his family members to the CBI.
Arjun Singh may have survived yet once again, but this time he may have over-reached himself. So far he had used his `loyalty' to the first family as a political weapon to manouevre the situation to his advantage, but this time he took on the leadership, and that is bound to have its own fallout
Terming higher education a 'sick child', Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday lamented it was not serving the cause of young people and asked vice-chancellors to work on a roadmap to provide quality and inclusive education.
The Indian ace was among those who finished their stipulated 18 holes as play was suspended mid-way through the opening round of the $900,000 Caltex Masters.
'Dharmendra was paying a little extra attention to me and she didn't like it.'
