
Nay Pyi Taw: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday met Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi during his landmark visit to Myanmar. Reports said that the Prime Minister has handed over UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's invitation to Suu Kyi to visit India. "Our sincere belief is that in the process of national reconciliation, Madam Suu Kyi will play a defining role. I convey to her our best wishes," Singh said....

11:46 AM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: It's the second day of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visit to Myanmar and he will be travelling to Yangon to meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This will be his first meeting ever with the Nobel laureate. Singh will be accompanied by External Affairs Minister SM Krishna. The two leaders met Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday. It seems India is road to Myanmar on more practical...

06:31 AM, May 29, 2012

Nay Pyi Taw: India is expected to extend its support for further progress in Myanmar's movement towards full democracy when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on May 29 in what is billed as one of the high-points of his landmark visit. Ahead of the Singh-Suu Kyi meeting in Yangon which will witness the pro-democracy icon sticking to protocol and calling on the Indian premier,...

02:27 PM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will begin talks in Myanmar on Monday. Singh is on a three day visit to the country - a first by any Indian Prime Minister in 25 years. He is accompanied by External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and will be meeting Myanmar's President Thein Sein in the capital on Monday. The delegation will then travel to Yangon on Tuesday to meet pro-democracy leader Aung...

06:15 AM, May 28, 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached Myanmar on Sunday evening in a first visit by an Indian PM since Rajiv Gandhi's visit 25 years ago. ...

11:25 PM, May 27, 2012

Nay Pyi Taw: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday arrived at Nay Pyi Taw, the new Myanmarese capital, on a three-day visit during which the two countries are expected to take a series of initiatives to bolster bilateral relations in several key areas, including energy, trade and connectivity sector. In a pre-departure statement, Singh said that his visit "will provide an opportunity to review the progress in implementation of decisions"...

06:22 PM, May 27, 2012

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left for Myanmar on Sunday in a historic visit by an Indian prime minister that comes after a gap of 25 years. The PM said before his departure that India and Myanmar would explore new initiatives and define a roadmap for further boosting of bilateral ties with focus on trade, investment and connectivity during his three-day visit. Pointing out that India attaches the highest...

04:52 PM, May 27, 2012

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said India and Myanmar would explore new initiatives and define a roadmap for further boosting of bilateral ties with focus on trade, investment and connectivity as he begins a three-day visit to that country. Pointing out that India attaches the highest importance to its relations with Myanmar, a "close friend and neighbour", Singh said in a statement shortly before his departure for...

09:32 AM, May 27, 2012

New Delhi: Myanmar's Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her boycott of Parliament and will be sworn in on Wednesday. The Nobel laureate had objected to the wording of the oath because it required her to pledge to protect the Myanmar constitution, which she says gives too much power to the ruling military junta. "Politics is an issue of give and take," she told reporters in the main city,...

09:11 AM, May 01, 2012

Naypyitaw: Myanmar's reformist rulers are looking forward to an eagerly awaited easing of European Union sanctions on Monday but celebrations will be muted over a political stalemate delaying Aung San Suu Kyi's historic parliamentary debut. A protest by Suu Kyi's party over a swearing-in vow for its would-be parliamentarians will dent an image of transformation the government wanted to show off on Monday, when the European Union is all but...

09:58 AM, Apr 23, 2012

Paris: European Union governments will suspend sanctions against Myanmar next week, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday, in recognition of rapid political and economic reforms after decades of military dictatorship. "Next Monday we will not lift sanctions but suspend them because we want to check that the regime is progressing on the path of democracy," Juppe told BFM television. "There is progress but we haven't reached the final...

07:56 PM, Apr 20, 2012

Sweeping changes in India's neighbourhood as a democratic icon and Myanmar's most loved leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins a land slide by-election, we are tracking the tectonic shift Inside Myanmar and what it means for India. ...

11:49 PM, Apr 06, 2012

Just across the National League for Democracy (NLD)'s office in Yangon is a small restaurant. It is in this place one can witness the difference ...

01:14 PM, Apr 06, 2012

Sweeping changes in India's neighbourhood as a democratic icon and Myanmar's most loved leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins a land slide by-election, we are tracking the tectonic shift Inside Myanmar and what it means for India. ...

07:52 PM, Apr 04, 2012

On some days in a reporter's life, nothing works out. And as we headed to Myanmar last Friday, I had a feeling it was going ...

08:30 AM, Apr 04, 2012