New Delhi: All issues, including the boundary question, would be on the table when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet in New Delhi on Sunday evening for talks. Li, who arrives in India Sunday afternoon on a three-day state visit, and Manmohan Singh are also likely to discuss the proposed border defence cooperation agreement during their talks, sources said Saturday. Li's visit comes days after the...
07:58 PM, May 18, 2013
Tokyo: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Tokyo later in May to expand India's strategic partnership with Japan and discuss a bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. He will visit Japan from May 27-30 for talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The two leaders plan to hold a summit on May 29, Kyodo news agency quoted a Japanese government source as saying. They...
01:47 PM, May 14, 2013
Beijing: Pakistan may improve its ties with India and fine tune its anti-terror strategy under the new government headed by PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, Chinese analysts have said. Under Sharif, the relationship between Pakistan and India might also improve, Wang Dehua, head of the South and Central Asian Studies Institute at the Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies told state-run Global Times said. "In 1999, Sharif managed to invite then...
12:44 PM, May 14, 2013
Washington: Nawaz Sharif's decision to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a "positive sign", the United States has said and expressed its willingness to work with the new government in Pakistan. "We have seen those comments. I don't want to analyze it too much, but to say that it is a positive step and we look forward to working with the new government as it's formed," State Department spokesperson Jen...
11:00 AM, May 14, 2013
It is obvious to any dispassionate observer of Indian politics that PM Manmohan Singh has failed to keep his flock of ministers in check. From CWG to 2G, from coal block allocation scam to malpractices in the Railways, UPA-2 has been in the news more for the wrong reasons. In such a situation, is demand for his resignation justified? Ashutosh, managing editor, IBN7 joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on...
06:39 PM, May 13, 2013
Already in the docks over the CWG, 2G and chopper deals, the UPA has now been hit by two more scams, one in the Railways and one over coal block allocations. The Supreme Court has also come down on the functioning of the government and its bureaucracy. In such a situation with the general elections drawing closer, can the UPA ignore the clamour for Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal's removal?...
06:46 PM, May 09, 2013
The legendary actor and former Chief minister of Telugu Desum Party Dr NT Rama Rao's statue has been unveiled at the Parliament today. The event was a conglomeration of politicians, family members and celebrities from the Southern film industry who participated at the event. Meera Kumar, speaker of Lok Sabha unveiled the bronze statue. The statue stands 9 feet 3 inches tall. The event was prestigious as Prime minister Manmohan...
05:25 PM, May 07, 2013
Sajjan Kumar's acquittal in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case has left those, who lost their kins in the massacre, aggrieved. HS Phoolka, who has been spearheading the legal battle for the riot victims, joined IBNLive readers in an interaction on the future of the case as they prepare to take the matter to higher courts. Q. Mr Phoolka, why is it that the police is not able to build a...
05:13 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to step in to end the political deadlock over coal scam. Sources said the PM is likely to call an all-party meet to break the logjam in Parliament and try and pass the Land Bill and the Food Security Bill. A temporary truce on the Finance Bill was achieved on Monday and the Bill will now be taken up post noon. It...
10:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
CBI report on Coal scam takes Parliament by storm, what lies ahead? CNN-IBN's national bureau chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Its not the first time that the government had influenced CBI ..but how come this time CBI chief had raised his voice and come in public about it. Asked by: Rajneesh A. It's a good point you raise. I think difference this...
06:32 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday charged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government lack the courage and the sensitivity needed to deal with issues like security of women and increasing frequency of rape cases in the capital and the rest of the country. Addressing a public meeting in New Delhi, BJP President Rajnath Singh said the UPA government is inching towards "zero sensitivity" towards the plight of women. "The...
10:23 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Karan Thapar spoke to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Devil's Advocate about the governance of the Congress party, who calls the shots, the equation between Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh and the prospect of Rahul Gandhi being nominated as the party's prime ministerial candidate. Karan Thapar Hello and welcome to Devils's Advocate. I am in an interview with a Congress leader who is not afraid to...
09:00 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he was "deeply disturbed" over the rape and brutality committed on a five-year-old girl and asked the society to work to root out the evil. He also expressed anger over the treatment meted out by police officers to some women protesting against the incident, saying it was "completely unacceptable" and asked Delhi Lt Governor Tajender Khanna to take strictest possible action...
08:48 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Bangalore: Questioning the clean chit given by the Joint Parliamentary Committee to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 2G spectrum allocation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Friday accused Congress of using the JPC to "subvert" the truth. Jaitley said former Telecom Minister A Raja's correspondence with the Prime Minister made it clear that Singh and the then Finance Minister (P Chidambaram) were fully in the loop of...
04:50 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Narendra Modi is widely held as a dictatorial person who likes no second power centre and has been able to cut the RSS and VHP machinery in Gujarat to its size. But leading a national coalition is a different ball game. Is Modi up to it? Senior associate editor of The Hindu Mukund Padmanabhan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. If Modi becomes PM, does it...
06:15 PM, Apr 10, 2013
