Stating that the G-20 Summit took place in very difficult circumstances, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "Faltering growth in most countries was overshadowed by the threat of uncertainty in the Eurozone arising from a combination of excessive sovereign debt combined with banking weakness."
The Dravida Munnetra Kazagham on Monday named two party nominees for the Rajya Sabha election and announced that the third seat was being allotted to ally Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
While the country was high on Holi celebrations on Saturday, it was a quiet day for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Sources in the PMO said there was no particular reason for the Prime Minister keeping away from the celebrations. Singh had in his Holi greetings said that the festival symbolised the country's spirit of togetherness, harmony and tolerance.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh readies to face some tough questions in his interaction with mediapersons on Friday, he will largely base his arguments on a performance report of the United Progressive Alliance government.
The five-state assembly elections are seen as a now-or-never, no-holds battle for the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Singh said he has asked the President for a day or two for constituting the Council of Ministers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has long been lauded for his pivotal role in liberalising the Indian economy, has been dubbed as an "underachiever" by a top US magazine which says he appears "unwilling to stick his neck out" on reforms that will put the country back on growth path.
7 states account for over 80 per cent of the total direct tax collections by the Union government.
"I do not want to boast (about) anything. The court's judgment has to be respected. I am glad that the court has pronounced unambiguously. All the massive propaganda which was being done against the UPA was without any foundation. The judgment speaks for itself," the former PM said.
The letter comes amid reports of dedicating the Teen Murti complex in the memory of all ex-PMs.
Terming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an "honest person", yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday asked him to make his Cabinet "corruption free."
The Emergency came as a surprise to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who saw an atmosphere of fear in the country during which there were many "arbitrary arrests and detentions", says a new book on him by his daughter.
In another sign of growing strains between Trinamool and Congress, Mamata Banerjee on Monday targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not calling her during the Singur agitation, saying it was perhaps not to annoy her arch rival, Communist Party of India-Marxist
'He (Modi) has spoken of being a prime minister for all Indians but he...presides over and has mostly been silent in the face of widespread communal violence, mob lynching and cow vigilantism'
Gobind Kaur, Dr Manmohan Singh's sister, and her children travel down memory lane.
Addressing a gathering at the launch of a book on Jawaharlal Nehru's works and speeches, Singh said that if India is recognised in the comity of nations as a vibrant democracy and, if it is considered as one of the important world powers, it was the first prime minister, who should be recognised as its main architect.
Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi marched from the Congress headquarter in New Delhi to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former prime minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case.
scotching all speculation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has virtually made it clear that Manmohan Singh would continue to be the prime ministerial face of the party.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that people in his office, several party and other opposition leaders have been sent a warning by Apple of state-sponsored attackers targeting their phone, and alleged that as soon as the Adani issue is touched, probe agencies and snooping are deployed.
Nowadays, our politics is habituated to sitting on a high pedestal, hobnobbing with world leaders, generating impressions of a superpower and returning to earth for the purpose of winning elections. In contrast, the yatra never left earth, observes Shyam G Menon.
By keeping the Sanatana Dharma row alive and adding the Ayodhya temple consecration scheduled for January 22 and adding the free darshan promise from four polled states to the entire country, the BJP may have a self-fulfilling concoction, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
"There is no vacancy for the post of the prime minister. No applications are being invited or are necessary or are being entertained," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said.
Singh again hit out at his successor Modi on the eve of the second and final phase of the Gujarat polls.
The Indian prime minister's in-tray is overflowing now that he has taken over the running of the economy with an election just months away.
NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday received a grand welcome in Baramati, which is his assembly constituency and also the pocket borough of party chief Sharad Pawar, on his first visit after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra and parting ways with his uncle.
Targeting the Congress, the PM said those who ruled Madhya Pradesh for a long time did nothing else other than corruption and crime.
Margaret Thatcher had once hailed former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's vision for India's economic liberalisation, which was "boldly initiated" by the then finance minister Manmohan Singh.
Manmohan Singh had joined a pre-medical course as his father wanted him to become a doctor but pulled out after a couple of months, losing interest in the subject, according to a book on the former prime minister by his daughter.
Obviously, there could be more days when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke from his heart. Here's our pick
Indian and American youngsters came together on Tuesday at Mumbai's Gateway House for a dialogue about American President Barack Obama's visit to India.
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The coming assembly and Lok Sabha elections -- the choice of candidates, the campaign strategies and the negotiations with other Opposition parties --0 represent the real test for Mallikarjun Kharge.
'People have a certain perception about my political leanings -- and rightly so.' 'But I am an actor first, and then an activist.' 'And I am not an accidental actor.' 'There was no way I was going to be dishonest with my acting,' Anupam Kher tells Veenu Sandhu.
Dr Singh said he was upset but expressed confidence that truth will prevail in a fair trial.
"People say I was a silent prime minister, but I think these volumes (his book 'Changing India') speak for themselves. I was not the prime minister who was afraid of talking to the press. I met the press regularly. In every foreign tour, I had press conferences in the plane or after landing," Manmohan Singh noted.
The Chief Ministers Conference on Internal Security got underway in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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