Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday accused the central government of adopting a callous approach to the kerosene needs of the poor in Tamil Nadu by reducing its allocation. In a letter to Singh, Jayalalithaa cited the reduced allocation of kerosene to Tamil Nadu to 39.429 kilo litre (KL) for April-June 2012 from 44,580 KL earlier. She said the poor in rural and urban areas depended on...
05:18 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: The delicious irony in the Prime Minister's YouTube channel that had audio trouble with its debut video was hard to miss. Twitter users targeted the gaffe with savage fury, making it the butt of jokes centred on Manmohan Singh's usual reserve. Compared to the flamboyant Nicolas Sarkozy or the charismatic Barack Obama, the Indian PMO's Twitter account is fairly dull. Notwithstanding its virtuous intention, @PMOIndia has followed only...
12:38 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Washington: The White House gate-crashers, who stole the limelight at President Barack Obama's first state dinner in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November 2009, top Time magazine's list of "Top 10 Memorable State-Dinner Moments". The list released ahead of the Obamas' official state dinner Wednesday night for Chinese President Hu Jintao noted how wannabe TV stars "Tareq and Michaele Salahi stole the spotlight when they finessed their way...
11:15 AM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: The chief interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Dilip Padgaonkar has revealed that when the three-member team went to meet terrorists in jail, the inmates reached out to them and in fact offered a peace plan for Kashmir. Padgaonkar and the other two interlocutors were speaking exclusively to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's show ‘Devil's Advocate’. Padgaonkar said, “First time we met the guys from terrorist organisations, they said to...
08:05 AM, Oct 31, 2010
New Delhi: The newly-appointed interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who assured them of political support and advised them to talk to the youth of the state, reeling under a cycle of violence. The interlocutors have been appointed to hold talks with all shades people across the Valley including the separatists as apart of the eight-point peace formula by the government. “We've just had...
01:39 PM, Oct 21, 2010
This will also be his first meeting with US President Barack Obama. ...
02:45 AM, Mar 11, 2009
It plays important role in regulating commerce between India and other countries. ...
04:15 PM, Sep 29, 2008
Six new IITs have started operations from the current academic session. ...
03:57 PM, Sep 05, 2008
The secret of Manmohan Singh trademark blue turban was revealed on Wednesday at Cambridge. ...
11:52 AM, Oct 12, 2006
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh became one of the few people to have received doctorate degrees from Oxford and Cambridge University. ...
11:11 PM, Oct 11, 2006
Doctorate of Law describes PM as “cool, calm, well aware of justice that serves the state and man." ...
06:21 PM, Oct 11, 2006
Terrorists have no religion and law enforcement agencies must stop targeting Muslims, says the PM. ...
09:07 PM, Aug 21, 2006
India-US to step up counter-terrorism work: Obama ...
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