Sat, 11/20/2010 - 07:36 by Prince damin
New Delhi -- An auditor's report in India said telecommunication regulators had mishandled $40 billion, causing a furor throughout the government.
Without an accusation that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was directly involved in the scandal, the Supreme Court, nonetheless, admonished the prime minister for failing to investigate the matter more thoroughly, The New York Times reported Friday.
The report, which caused Telecommunications Minister A. Raja to resign, said sales of airwave spectrum rights dating back to 2006 "lacked transparency and fairness."
In response, Kapil Sibal, an interim minister of telecommunications, said 69 of 130 airwave licenses may need to be revoked.
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Sat, 11/28/2009 - 14:50 by Ishita Sood
Washington, November 28 -- Photos of Michaele and Tareq Salahi with President Obama in the Blue Room of the White House were released Friday, proving that the gatecrashing Virginian couple, who got past layers of security on Tuesday night’s State dinner, did, indeed, meet the president.
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Thu, 11/26/2009 - 13:41 by Ishita Sood
Washington, November 26 -- An uninvited couple crashed President Obama’s first White House state dinner Tuesday night breaking layers of security.
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Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:25 by shiffali
Yekaterinburg (Russia), June 16: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur, who has accompanied him to this Russian industrial city, Tuesday visited the site of the gruesome massacre of Russia's last tsar and his family that has now turned into a centre of pilgrimage.
Tsar Nicholas II and his close family have been canonized and are now revered as saints. Hordes of Russians and tourists visit the Church of Spilt Blood that stands as a testimony to the dark past of revolutionary purges and Russia's turn to reconciliation and spirituality in the post-glasnost era.
They light candles, say their prayers quietly and bow their heads in an act of atonement at this cellar-turned-church where the last tsar of Russia and his five young children were shot dead in cold blood over nine decades ago.
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Mon, 06/01/2009 - 16:29 by Salinder Kumar
Sydney/New Delhi, June 1: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Monday vowed to punish attackers of Indian students as the police freed 18 students detained following massive anti-racism protests.
Rudd told parliament in Canberra that he had spoken to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said Australians strongly deplored the string of attacks on Indians studying in the country.
He said the state authorities had been told to bring the perpetrators to justice.
In India, where the issue has caused outrage, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna expressed the hope that the problems of Indian students would get "sorted out".
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Wed, 04/29/2009 - 09:58 by Salinder Kumar
Washington, April 29:President Barack Obama wants India and the United States to build a renewable energy partnership as they work together to find solutions to climate change issues.
Obama conveyed this to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on climate change issues, Shyam Saran, during a meeting Monday with leaders of delegations to a meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate here.
Referring to his meeting with Manmohan Singh in London during the Group of 20 summit, Obama told Saran how encouraged and pleased he was with the exchange of views on various issues including energy and climate change.
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Mon, 04/27/2009 - 11:22 by Salinder Kumar
Chennai/New Delhi, India April 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday telephoned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who is on a hunger strike in Chennai, and said the government would do its best to bring peace to Sri Lanka.
The prime minister spoke to the DMK chief at the Marina Beach front, where Karunandihi went on a hunger strike Monday morning demanding an end to Sri Lanka's military offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
A DMK source told IANS in Chennai that Manmohan Singh said his government was trying to influence Sri Lanka to end its hostilities in order to save civilian lives.
In New Delhi, Congress general secretary M. Veerappa Moily told reporters that the prime minister was concerned about Karunanidhi's health and has got in touch with him on the telephone.
-IANS
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Thu, 04/23/2009 - 14:27 by Salinder Kumar
Guwahati, India April 23: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who cast his vote here Thursday, said a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government would form the government at the centre once again.
"The Congress in Assam will win a thumping majority and there will be a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre," Manmohan Singh told journalists soon after casting his vote along with his wife Gursharan Kaur.
"I am really excited to be back home and cast my vote. It is the duty of all Indians to exercise their franchise," the prime minister said.
"I am not at all tense about the polling. Our performance will be very good," he added.
Asked if the Congress would consider a post-poll tie up with Left parties, Manmohan Singh refrained from making any comment.
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Sun, 04/19/2009 - 12:18 by rcrchauhan
Guwahati, India April 19 -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the world economy will recover "partially" by September and India would then go back to the growth rate of 8-9 percent.
"I expect the world economy to partially recover by September and if that happens we expect to go back to the growth rate of 8-9 percent, which has been the growth rate of India for the last five years," the prime minister said while addressing a press conference at Amin Gaon in Guwahati.
To a question on the reasons for the current global economic crisis, Manmohan Singh said: "This is a crisis because of the mishandling of the financial system by the major developed countries."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is a Rajya Sabha member from Assam, is here to address an election rally.
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Wed, 04/15/2009 - 13:24 by rcrchauhan
New Delhi, April 15 -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not ruled out an alliance with the Left after the elections, saying circumstances will decide what the party and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) finally do.
"An alliance with Left parties is possible only after the elections," Manmohan Singh said Wednesday at an interaction with members of the Editors' Guild. He said "circumstances will decide if we go with the Left".
In a point he has made earlier, the prime minister said he regretted parting ties with the Left over the India-US nuclear deal. The Left was not part of the UPA but was providing crucial parliamentary support to the government till last year.
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Mon, 04/13/2009 - 17:31 by Salinder Kumar
Mumbai, April 13: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he was glad at the successful outcome of the auction to sell controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services and hoped scams like that perpetrated on the company would not recur.
Reacting to Tech Mahindra winning the bid for a controlling stake in the scam-hit firm, the prime minister, here for election campaigning, told reporters that the government and the regulators were quick in their response when the financial fraud came to light.
"I am confident that our regulatory system has the resilience and strength to ensure that no such Satyams ever take place," he said, expressing satisfaction at the manner in which the whole episode was handled over the past three months.
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Mon, 04/13/2009 - 15:56 by Salinder Kumar
Kochi, April 13: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "young in mind" and had the vision for the future unlike his opponent who lived in the past without a plan for the years to come.
"Youth is not how old you are. It is the attitude that is important. Our prime minister is a young man and he is young in mind because he understands technology, globalisation, economics and he puts it all together," Gandhi, who was on a daylong visit to Kerala, said at a press conference here.
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