Dr Singh sent a signal to Mumbai markets on Wednesday that he meant business -- to first understand, then act. "Wait and watch," a source in PMO said that many changes are expected soon in North Block. He will be visiting North Block next week to the office of Finance Minister in order to meet the junior officials.
"Manmohan Singh is a highly reputable reform-oriented economist, but he does not have the authoritarian clout that enabled Deng Xiaoping to start China's agricultural reform in 1978," says Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
Muhammad Yunus proved that he was neither an armchair economist nor a slogan mongering political activist, but a doer destined to do what Mahatma Gandhi said -- to remove every tear from every eye, recalls Rup Narayan Das.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday left for home after an overnight halt here while on his way back from the US where he held talks with President Barack Obama and met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, besides addressing the United Nations General Assembly.
Sonia Gandhi also joins in the party, in Delhi.
Prime Minister's speech at the Plenary Session of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi.
The letter comes amid reports of dedicating the Teen Murti complex in the memory of all ex-PMs.
'We don't have to go abroad for anything.' 'Anyone who thinks we have a lot to learn from the US needs to have his head examined.' 'We are in a new era.'
Manmohan Singh will address the United Nations General Assembly and hold talks with President George W Bush.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been chosen for one of Japan's top national awards for his contribution to India-Japan ties, becoming the first Indian to receive the rare honour.
Hitting back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Friday insisted that he is the 'weakest PM' heading a government showing symptoms of "terminal decline" after suffering multi-organ failure.
Politely decline to be prime minister, and hand the baton to someone else in the BJP -- like Sonia did to Manmohan Singh -- advises Krishna Prasad.
Three days after Rahul Gandhi's blunt attack against the ordinance on convicted lawmakers, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday declared that the "whole party" stands behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Scoffing at the Congress' assertion that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi shared a unique relationship, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said though Dr Singh was technically at the helm, the real power rested in the hands of Gandhi.
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.
While supporting greater flexibility in labour markets, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said there could be no 'uncritical endorsement' of the hire- and-fire approach.
Message Board: Is Manmohan Singh the weakest PM ever?
As he endeavours to reduce trust deficit between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sent a consignment of mangoes to his counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday. About 20 kgs of special Alphonso mangoes were despatched to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, which will pass these on to the Prime Minister's office there, sources said.
Setting the tone for their substantive talks on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama on Monday night had an overview of bilateral relations and international issues at a private dinner hosted by the Indian leader.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Tokyo on Monday on a three-day visit to Japan to invigorate bilateral strategic ties and push for a civil nuclear energy cooperation deal.
An economic document, the 'Bombay Plan,' prepared exactly 60 years ago, had a profound impact on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who, later in the early 1990s, was to become the architect of India's financial reforms.
Eyeing more than nine per cent growth rate for Indian economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said exciting opportunities await India and Canada for mutual cooperation to raise their bilateral trade three-fold to $15 billion within the next five years.
United States President Barack Obama will host Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House on November 24 for the first official visit of his presidency, the White House has said.
Projecting the Congress as the hope for the people's future, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said his government has worked for betterment of millions, ensured inclusive growth despite a global economic crisis and responded "purposively" and with "speed" to terror attacks.
Listing water as one of the seven sutras (seven-pillars) for development, the prime minister described it as a national resource that is scarce and should be equitably used.
The party delegation is on a two-day visit to Kashmir to attend a series of meetings on the current situation in the valley.
Alleging that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pushed the country's economy back to 1991 era of economic crisis, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday hit out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for allowing Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail.
Will help to reduce imports of the metal.
Why does Jairam Ramesh want to quit the Cabinet? Which heavyweight akhara will host the Gandhi family at the Kumbh Mela? Was bad Vaastu the reason why Nitin Gadkari failed to make history as the first person to head the BJP for a second term? All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup...
Former Finance Minister Manmohan Singh has warned that the 'status quo please-all' Budget would not boost economic growth beyond 5-5.5 per cent as it has failed to address the unsustainable fiscal deficit pegged at 5.6 per cent for 2003-04.
'Leave aside the negative fallouts of phraseology like 'urban Naxals' and 'terrorists', both the BJP and the Congress have to re-discover themselves in the context of the 2024 election results, including those of the upcoming ones for Maharashtra and Jharkhand,' observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
In their letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, the Congress leaders said during a discussion on the functioning of the ministry of agriculture and farmers' welfare on August 2, "misleading and incorrect assertions" were made by the minister.
The advertisement highlights NCP chief Sharad Pawar's accomplishments as Union agriculture minister and thanks the UPA government for its support. While the Congress said it was unaware of the advertisement, the NCP claimed it was not issued by the party.
'Afzal Guru became a victim of Pakistan's conspiracy. He was used as a means, just like all other innocent Kashmiris.'
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh continues to enjoy immunity in an alleged human rights violation case filed against him in a United States court even though he is no longer the head of the State, the US department of justice has said.
Rubbishing all criticism of Manmohan Singh being a weak Prime Minister, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid said he is the best person for the job and has provided "thoughtful, philosophical" leadership in uncertain times.
"The rule of law is under attack. History shall never forgive our present generation if the situation is not changed," the former PM said.
The Left parties attacked the government's policies and said the country was heading towards an economic emergency.
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