Tag: Manmohan Singh
No corruption ‘explosion’ on my watch: Indian PM
India’s prime minister has hit back at critics of his graft-tainted government, stressing his own “high standard” of personal integrity and lauding his administration...
Unleash the beast inside you!
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged finance officials to revive the economy's "animal spirit" and reverse a climate of pessimism at a time...
Indian PM says govt must ‘do better’ as woes mount
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged the “large unfinished agenda” facing his government after three years in power, and vowed to tackle corruption...
Indian legend Tendulkar offered political role
India’s prime minister has put forward batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar for membership of the upper house of parliament, reports said on Thursday. Prime Minister...
Zardari has ‘fruitful’ bilateral talks with Indian PM
President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday became the first Pakistani head of state since 2005 to visit arch-rival India when he arrived in New...
Zardari to invite Indian PM to Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to hold one-on-one meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday and invite him to visit Pakistan.
According...
PTI seeks details of Zardari, Manmohan meeting
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday sought details of the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which is...
Nuclear terror remains potent threat: Indian PM
India on Tuesday warned that nuclear terrorism will remain a potent threat as long as there are terrorists seeking to gain access to atomic...
India says likely to back UN resolution on S. Lanka war
India on Monday said it was “inclined” to vote in support of a US-backed move at the UN Human Rights Council to push Sri...
On judicial activism
More power to the judiciary’s elbow
I have always considered that the success of lawyers’ movement in Pakistan in 2008 was its first war of...
Forward march!
Elections in India
At noon on March 6, or perhaps an hour earlier, a great impasse will begin in parliament. This is not an astrologer’s...
Indian PM in ‘major step’ to solve power crisis
India’s prime minister ordered the country’s state-run coal mining giant on Wednesday to guarantee supplies to the private power sector in a bid to...
Israel embassy staff targeted in Delhi, Tbilisi
Israeli diplomats were targeted by bomb attacks in Delhi and Tbilisi on Monday, officials said, with two people injured in the Indian capital when...
Politicking over the Lokpal
Of pushing partisan agendas
How different are the dynamics of people’s politics from the dynamics of electoral politics was clear by the turn the bill...
Recriminations over India’s stalled anti-graft law
India's government faced fierce criticism in the media and from the opposition on Friday after it failed to push through its flagship anti-corruption law...
Anti-graft bill victory boosts Indian government
The Indian government sighed with relief on Wednesday after parliament’s Lower House passed an anti-corruption bill that has become a political albatross around the...
Russia signs preliminary deal to sell 42 jets to India
Visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday oversaw the signing of an agreement to sell to India 42 Su-30...