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  UPA pressured me to drop names from CWG, coal reports: Vinod Rai, Congress fumes

  Politics | August 24, 2014 20:02 IST

  New Delhi: In fresh embarrassment to Congress, especially former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ex-CAG Vinod Rai has claimed he was pressurised by the UPA regime to drop certain names from audit reports in Coalgate and

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  Tarun Gogoi for Bharat Ratna to Bhupen Hazarika

  Politics | August 11, 2014 20:50 IST

  Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to honour the state's cultural icon Dr Bhupen Hazarika with the Bharat Ratna.The Chief Minister, in a letter to the Prime Minister, requested

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  PM to submit resignation to President Saturday

  India | May 16, 2014 14:55 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation Saturday morning before going to meet President Pranab Mukherjee to submit his resignation at noon, as the BJP-led NDA looks poised to come to power.After

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  7 RCR prepares to bid farewell to PM, 3 Motilal ready to host

  Politics | May 11, 2014 15:40 IST

  New Delhi: There is a flurry of activity at two of the VIP bungalows in the Lutyen's Zone of the national capital, with one preparing to bid farewell to its special guest of 10 years

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  PM pledges to provide USD 1 mln to Afghan landslide victims

  India | May 06, 2014 9:06 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai and pledged to provide an assistance of USD 1 million to the families displaced by a landslide that entombed a village, killing atleast

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  Secure fishermen's release, Jayalalithaa tells PM

  India | March 05, 2014 16:39 IST

  Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa again urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to personally intervene to get the 153 Indian fishermen released from Sri Lankan jails.In a letter to Manmohan Singh which was released

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  'Let's establish facts over bribery allegations in HAL deal'

  March 03, 2014 18:04 IST

  Nay Pyi Taw: India today said it is trying to establish facts over allegations of bribery into a Rs 10,000 crore deal for supply of aircraft engines to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) by Rolls

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  PM leaving for Myanmar to attend BIMSTEC summit

  India | March 03, 2014 11:47 IST

  New Delhi:  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will today leave for Myanmar, which is likely to be his last foreign visit as PM. Dr Singh will head to Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw for the Bay

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  Minister urges PM to note dissent to decision on Telangana

  India | February 13, 2014 6:50 IST

  Hyderabad: Union Textile Minister K. Sambasiva Rao has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to note his dissent to the Feb 7 decision of the union cabinet to approve the bill for formation of a separate

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  Kiran seeks appointment with PM on water tribunal's award

  India | December 14, 2013 9:23 IST

  Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy yesterday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to grant an appointment on December 19 or 20 so that he could represent the state's case against the

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  No scope of Pakistan winning a war: PM

  India | December 04, 2013 18:22 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was no possibility of Pakistan winning any war against India in his “lifetime”.“There is no scope of Pakistan winning any such war in my lifetime,” he

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  Terrorists may attempt to disrupt Lok Sabha, Assembly polls:PM

  India | November 23, 2013 11:40 IST

  New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today warned that terrorist groups may try to disrupt the forthcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls and asked security forces to remain alert.Voicing concern over a “substantial increase”

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  PM's absence casts shadow over CHOGM beginning on Friday

  World | November 14, 2013 18:07 IST

  Colombo: The absence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterparts from Canada and Mauritius has cast a shadow over the three-day CHOGM summit that begins here tomorrow amid allegations of human rights violations against

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  Khurshid leaves for Colombo tomorrow for CHOGM summit

  India | November 12, 2013 19:44 IST

  New Delhi: Notwithstanding demands for a total boycott from political parties in Tamil Nadu, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid leaves on a five-day visit to Colombo for representing India in the three-day CHOGM Summit to

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  Govt using CBI as a 'private militia': BJP

  Politics | November 11, 2013 20:55 IST

  New Delhi: Alleging that the government is misusing CBI as a “private militia”, BJP today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance that his dispensation will take all steps to ensure the agency's legitimacy are “strange

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  CHOGM: Manmohan tells Rajapaksa he is not coming

  India | November 10, 2013 16:59 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sent a letter of regret to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, explaining why he is not attending the Commonwealth summit in Colombo next week.The letter, whose contents

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  Told PM about unfinished work on Narmada dam many times, in vain, says Modi

  India | October 31, 2013 19:54 IST

  Kevadia : Suggesting that UPA government was biased against Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the gates on the Sardar Sarovar dam had not been installed yet even though he had taken up the

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  Mahatma Gandhi a source of eternal inspiration: PM

  India | October 29, 2013 19:19 IST

  Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said Mahatma Gandhi was a source of eternal inspiration and his life and work will continue to inspire the world for generations to come.Singh, who is on a visit

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  PM to hold meeting on Navi Mumbai Airport on Nov 13

  India | October 27, 2013 17:28 IST

  Thane: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting in New Delhi on November 13 to discuss over the bottlenecks in the progress of the greenfield airport at Panvel in Navi Mumbai.Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj

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  PM condemns Patna blasts

  India | October 27, 2013 15:36 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today condemned the serial blasts in Patna and called upon Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to speedily investigate and punish the perpetrators.The prime minister spoke to Nitish Kumar on telephone