New Delhi: India went into damage control mode on Monday after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made controversial comments on Bangladesh at the Editors meet he held in the capital last week. The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) staff had published Dr Manmohan Singh's off-the-record fears of 25 per cent of all Bangladeshi's hating India. The Prime Minister reportedly spoke to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Monday to clarify the controversy....
08:28 AM, Jul 05, 2011
On this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus gets you the funnier side of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Editors. ...
06:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Q: Sir, you did not mention anything about our neighbourhood. A: Well, neighbourhood worries me a great deal, quite frankly. You have a situation in Sri Lanka. The decimation of the LTTE was something which is good. But the Tamil problem does not disappear, with the defeat of the LTTE. The Tamil population has legitimate grievances. They feel they are reduced to second-class citizens. And our emphasis has been to...
09:26 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday met a group of editors, without the presence of TV cameras. The idea was to dispel the criticism that he hasn't been responding on key issues. Singh tried to set the record straight, that he is still very much in command. The Prime Minister dismissed talks of him being a 'lameduck' and a 'puppet' Prime Minister as a propaganda by the opposition....
08:53 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Terming the grievances of Tamils in Sri Lanka as 'legitimate', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said India's efforts was to persuade the Sri Lankan government to ensure that all are treated as equal citizens as what is happening there has a domestic dimension. During an interaction with a group of Editors, Singh said he has discussed the issue with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who has "good...
07:52 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire for his silence, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Editors as part of his new media outreach strategy on Wednesday and showed he's the boss. Dismissing talk that he is a "lameduck" Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said he has been entrusted with the job by the Congress party from which he has not heard "any contrary view". Terming the perception that his government had gone "comatose" and...
12:36 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will break his silence on Wednesday in a meeting with editors just ahead of the impending Cabinet reshuffle. Manmohan Singh, battling criticism for his prolonged silence on key issues, plans to be more communicative with the media. He will be briefing senior editors of TV and print publications regularly. The prime minister met with electronic media editors last February and five print editors last...
07:50 AM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to speak on major issues when he meets a group of senior editors on Wednesday. "I am hoping that it will become the preferred format for regular interactions between the groups of editors and the Prime Minister," Media Advisor to the Prime Minister Harish Khare told PTI on Tuesday. Singh's interaction on Wednesday morning will be the second with the senior Editors....
07:12 PM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: Condoling the death of veteran investigative reporter J Dey in Mumbai, the Editors Guild of India on Saturday demanded the Maharashtra government to take immediate steps to ensure that the killers are brought to justice. "The Editors Guild deplores the law enforcement agencies' inability to protect the life of a journalist engaged in carrying out his professional duties at great risk to himself," Guild president TN Ninan and...
06:36 PM, Jun 11, 2011
Mumbai: After veteran character artist A.K. Hangal, comes news that 81-year-old M.S. Shinde, editor of the cult film Sholay, is perishing in poverty in Asia's biggest slum Dharavi. The Cine and TV Artists Association (CINTAA) has come to his aid. Shinde, who edited over a hundred hit films including Shaan, Shakti and Seeta Aur Geeta, had to move to the PMFP colony in Dharavi after the building in Parel where...
06:58 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New Delhi: India-born British film editor Tariq Anwar is in the Oscar race with a nomination for his work in the hugely popular historical drama "The King's Speech". This is his second nomination for the prestigious award. In 1999, he was nomianted for "American Beauty". Raised in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Tariq has been working as a film editor in Britain for more than two decades and has worked on films...
03:02 PM, Feb 23, 2011
New Delhi: Admitting that "some compromises" have to be made in managing a coalition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday declared that his government will bring the wrongdoers in scams to book but ruled out quitting from his post. He asserted that his government was not lameduck nor was he a lameduck Prime Minister and it was a functioning government that would go after the scamsters. On the 2G scam...
01:27 PM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a rare media roundtable with TV editors on Wednesday as his government grapples with a slew of crises from corruption scandals to high inflation. Following are highlights of comments by Singh: On negative perceptions of Singh's government "Whatever some people may say, that we are a lame duck government, that I am a lame duck prime minister, we take our job very seriously,...
12:18 PM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Finally, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke his silence, only to sound less than convincing about his own effectiveness in containing corruption within his administration. Harping repeatedly on the need for compromises in managing coalitions, he virtually admitted that many decisions, possibly dubious, were taken by individual ministers and officials without the full participation of the Cabinet. In an open house session with the media, Singh answered a wide...
11:10 AM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will break his silence on Wednesday on the spectrum of scams surrounding his government. He will be meeting editors of all major television channels in an attempt to clear the air before the Budget secession. But the BJP still not impressed - LK Advani went on record to say he pitied the Prime minister for being weak. Under relentless fire from the Opposition over...
07:09 AM, Feb 16, 2011
New Delhi: Under pressure from the recent scams, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet editors from all major television channels on Wednesday. Under relentless fire from the Opposition over the 2G scam, Singh will use the opportunity to set the record straight on a variety of issues at his interaction with editors, like - * Did he succumb to pressure from the DMK on the 2G policy? * If Government...
10:31 PM, Feb 15, 2011
New Delhi: Under pressure on the recent scams, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet the editors from all major television channels on Wednesday. Singh is likely to break his silence on the 2G spectrum scam issue ahead of the Budget Session. The meeting is scheduled to be held at 11 AM at his residence at 7 Race Course Road. The meeting is being held in the backdrop of the Prime...
11:14 AM, Feb 15, 2011
Park City: If you can't beat 'em, YouTube, join 'em. Long since video-sharing website YouTube became an Internet sensation, media watchers have wondered how it can take users' appetite for two or three minute videos and transform it into a hunger for full-length film and TV-style content. On Thursday, Sundance Film Festival audiences got a first taste. To be sure, YouTube's full-length movie 'Life in A day' is nowhere near...
09:35 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Watch CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai's take on Wednesday's Cabinet reshuffle. ...
12:00 AM, Jan 20, 2011
...
01:23 PM, Jan 10, 2011
