Tag: Manmohan Singh

282/543. To say that’s a landslide victory is to state the obvious. The media saw it coming. They called it the ‘Modi wave.’ Some veterans in the Congress party saw it coming – they decided to save their ‘hard-earned’ money that would otherwise have gone down the drain called election spending and stayed away from the contest.

Modi was chief minister of Gujarat at the time of Godhra riots. The riots began after a train with Hindu pilgrims was set on fire in Godhra, killing 59 people. Hindu mobs then turned on Muslims in Gujarat.

OBAMA told Modi that the largest democracy in the world had given a decisive mandate. The US leader also expressed the hope that under Modi’s leadership, India would play a significant role on the global stage.

Singh thanked the people for having accepted him for 10 years and said that his life has been an open book all through his tenure.

PAKISTAN on Thurday said the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault in jail, will be handed over to Indian authorities after "the early completion of all formalities".

WITH politicians cutting across party lines taking a plunge in the Ganga, the ongoing Maha Kumbh at Allahabad is fast turning into a preparatory ground for political parties, primarily the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in view of the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

INDIA will open its retail market to global supermarket chains. The cabinet agreed to 51 per cent foreign ownership of multi-brand retail stores like Wal-Mart and Tesco and 100 per cent of single-brand retailers like Nokia and Reebok.

INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on G20 leaders to find a quick resolution to the Eurozone crisis and said this was also imperative for emerging and poor economies to meet their developmental challenges.

INDIA should resist pressure from the European Union to accept, as part of a free trade agreement, harmful provisions that will have an exceedingly negative impact on access to affordable medicines.