
President Pranab Mukherjee will be honoured by Bangaldesh Government on Monday in recognition of his contribution to the struggle that led to the birth of this nation 42 years ago. ...

08:50 PM, Mar 03, 2013

Bangladesh's main Opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Sunday abruptly cancelled her proposed meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee, casting a shadow on his first foreign visit. ...

04:48 PM, Mar 03, 2013

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being projected by some in BJP as its Prime Ministerial face for 2014 elections, on Sunday asked his party cadres to work hard to present an alternative to the UPA government. ...

01:45 PM, Mar 03, 2013

The Congress party is a commission party, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi made his pitch for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers to treat the election as a freedom struggle. ...

12:42 PM, Mar 03, 2013

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking during BJP's national Executive meet in New Delhi, said President Pranab Mukherjee would have been a better prime minister instead of Manmohan Singh. Modi also called PM Manmohan a night watchman appointed by the UPA. ...

12:00 PM, Mar 03, 2013

President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...

07:22 AM, Mar 03, 2013

As thousands of youth continued their movement at Shahbagh in Dhaka to press for death penalty for war criminals, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said he believed Bangladeshi youths would determine the country's future. ...

04:08 AM, Mar 03, 2013

President Pranab Mukherjee is visiting Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013 in a trip that is expected to take bilateral relations between the two neighbours to new heights. ...

06:25 AM, Mar 02, 2013

Bangladesh's choice hilsa fish from the Padma river will be on the platter during President Pranab Mukherjee's Bangladesh visit, his first trip overseas after taking over the country's top office last July. Besides hilsa, the Indian president will also be treated to other special culinary delights when he visits Bangladesh from March 3-5, said a diplomatic official. ...

04:03 PM, Feb 27, 2013

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): Indo-French oceanographic study satellite 'SARAL' and six foreign mini and micro spacecrafts were succesfully launched on Monday evening by ISRO's PSLV-C20 rocket from the spaceport at Sriharikota. Indian Space Research Organisation's(ISRO) workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV) lifted off from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at around 6 pm at the end of the 59-hour countdown and placed in the orbit the satellites about...

06:09 PM, Feb 25, 2013

All is set for the launch of Indo-French satellite 'SARAL', aimed at oceanographic studies, and six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV from the spaceport of Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 is slated for blast-off at 5.56 pm local time from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, 110 kms from here. President Pranab Mukherjee is...

10:42 AM, Feb 25, 2013

India will launch its first mission to Mars in 2013, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday, as the emerging Asian nation looks to play catch up in the global space race alongside the United States, Russia and its giant neighbour China. ...

04:43 AM, Feb 22, 2013

Terming as a 'damp squib' President Pranab Mukherjee's joint address to Parliament, BJP on Thursday said the speech did not touch upon relevant issues like price rise and corruption. "It is a damp squib as it has not actually touched what is relevant today and we are very disappointed," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters outside Parliament after the President's address. Rudy also dubbed the address as a "old...

03:25 PM, Feb 21, 2013

Terming the President's Address to Parliament as "uninspiring", the CPI on Thursday said the government had admitted a slowdown in the economy but not come out with any solution. ...

02:31 PM, Feb 21, 2013

The Budget Session of Parliament has formally begun with President Pranab Mukherjee's address in which he laid out the government's agenda in the forthcoming session. Pranab Mukherjee spoke on issues including safety of women, economic slowdown, inflation and also laid stress on cross-border relations. ...

01:15 PM, Feb 21, 2013

The Budget Session of Parliament has formally begun with President Pranab Mukherjee's address in which he laid out the government's agenda in the forthcoming session. Pranab Mukherjee spoke on issues including safety of women, economic slowdown, inflation and also laid stress on cross-border relations. ...

12:57 PM, Feb 21, 2013

DMK and AIADMK MPs on Thursday shouted slogans over Sri Lankan Tamil issue during the maiden Address of President Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament. ...

11:50 AM, Feb 21, 2013

The Budget Session began on Thursday with President Pranab Mukherjee addressing Parliament. The President in his speech expressed concern over the security of women in the country. "People are concerned about the security of women. The past year has been a difficult one," President Pranab Mukherjee said. ...

11:20 AM, Feb 21, 2013

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the Union Cabinet will take a final call on settlement of the Rs 11,200-crore Vodafone tax case after seeking opinion of the Attorney General. ...

01:34 AM, Feb 21, 2013

Supreme Court on Wednesday cited Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar case and extended the stay on the execution of four aides of the infamous forest brigand Veerappan "till further orders". The apex court also adjourned the matter for six weeks. ...

11:44 AM, Feb 20, 2013