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Bangalore, May 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday exhorted the electorate in this tech city of India to vote for the Congress and save this "symbol of a new India" from "opportunistic" parties whose governments had dented its global brand by neglecting its infrastructure development. Addressing party workers and ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today said that there was no question of his resigning hours after the Supreme Court struck down a law that led to the sacking of All India Institute of Medical Science's (AIIMS) Director Dr P Venugopal. Ramadoss said there is ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Inflation, currently at over 7.5 percent, should ease in the next two months as steps are being taken to bring down prices, the government assured Thursday. Union Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar told reporters that except for iron and steel, all other commodities ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded the sacking of Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss hours after the Supreme Court struck down a law that led to the sacking of All India Institute of Medical Science's (AIIMS) Director Dr P Venugopal. ... Read more...

Bangalore, May 7 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday cautioned the electorate in Karnataka against giving a fractured mandate again in the state assembly election that gets underway Saturday in the first phase. "As responsible citizens, I am sure you will not make the mistake of giving a fractured verdict ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday hailed Dmitri Medvedev after he was sworn in as Russia's third president and underlined the "special place" Moscow occupies in India's foreign policy. In a felicitating him, Manmohan Singh wished Medvedev "every success in his high responsibilities", a statement from ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Steel producers in India have agreed to cut prices after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met them here Wednesday and sought their help in bringing down prices that have pushed the country's inflation rate to a 42-month high. At the meeting, the steel producers, who account ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal Wednesday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will bring down prices in six weeks. "Economics is not about tomorrow or the day after. A set of complex factors is responsible for price rise, but the government ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Steel producers on Wednesday agreed to lower prices after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. High prices of metals, food and fuel hoisted India's inflation rate to 7.4 per cent in late March, its highest level since November 2004, triggering protests and government ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): Following the demand-supply mismatch in the steel sector, leading steel producers will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today to discuss the pricing issue and other matters related to the industry. The government recently decided to impose an export duty on steel products following a ... Read more...

By Ashok Jaitly Nothing epitomises the quiescence of the powers that be in New Delhi towards the sensibilities of people of Jammu and Kashmir better than the cynical 'packages' handed out during every prime ministerial visit. Despite the hype created by the state's Congress-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government, Prime Minister Manmohan ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) More brickbats than bouquets came the government way during the budget session of parliament which came to an end Tuesday with the Rajya Sabha adjourning sine die. The upper house Tuesday witnessed near scuffles between the Congress members and those of the Samajwadi Party (SP) ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Congress MP and former central minister Akhilesh Das Tuesday quit the party and the Rajya Sabha and hit out at "flatterers and inexperienced coterie" surrounding general secretay Rahul Gandhi, whom he derisively dubbed a "yuvraj". In the first spark of revolt against Congress president Sonia ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Former minister and Congress' Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Das Tuesday resigned from the party, blaming the "coterie" around party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for the move. Das, a former minister of state for steel who was known as a close confidant of Rahul Gandhi, had ... Read more...

By V.S. Karnic Bangalore, May 6 (IANS) Searing temperatures in the day, Twenty20 cricket in the evening, campaign curbs and the absence of a single emotive issue to stir people... the combination of many factors have turned the electoral battle for Karnataka into a drab affair. There is a silver lining ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Left Parties will meet today to discuss the Congress-led Government's negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pertaining to Indo-US civil nuclear deal. On Monday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his government is ready to discuss any ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday evening that India and Pakistan should deal with the issue of release of prisoners on "humanitarian grounds". This was the first reaction of the prime minister after reports that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's execution has been put off "indefinitely" ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Ahead of a crucial meeting between the ruling UPA coalition and the Left parties on the nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday the government was willing to discuss any matter that its allies would like to raise. "We will discuss whatever issue that ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) With his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under fire for the rising prices of essential commodities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday sought more time to put inflation under control. "We have taken several measures (to contain the inflation). It will take some time," he told ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The cabinet Monday night decided to table the long-awaited Women's Reservation Bill that provides for 33 percent reservation for women in the parliament and state assemblies in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, official sources said. There was no official briefing after the Monday night cabinet meeting, ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Monday presented with images of the national capital taken by the recently launched satellites Cartosat-2A and IMS-1. A group of scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), led by its chairman G. Madhavan Nair, met Manmohan Singh and briefed ... Read more...

Patna, May 5 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday threw a new challenge before his political rival and Railways Minister Lalu Prasad. He asked him to ensure stern action against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for his remarks against north Indians. A day after Thackeray renewed his ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) With the death toll in the Myanmar cyclone now standing at around 15,000, India has despatched two naval ships loaded with relief supplies to the cyclone-battered nation, with more relief assistance to be sent by air. Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar Friday night with winds of ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) At least 70 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy, including 40 children, were detained Monday as they staged a protest outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence seeking government-redressal of their grievances. Braving the risks of holding a demonstration in a high-security zone, the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (ANI): Bhopal gas tragedy victims were on Monday detained by the police in New Delhi when they forcibly tried to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The protesters have been camping in the national capital since March 28 with the hope of meeting the PM, but the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (ANI): Bhopal gas tragedy victims were on Monday detained by the police in New Delhi when they forcibly tried to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The protesters have been camping in the national capital since March 28 with the hope of meeting the PM, but the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Expressing "deep distress" at the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, India is despatching two naval ships loaded with relief supplies as aid to the cyclone-battered nation where over 350 people were killed and thousands rendered homeless. Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar Friday night with ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Twelve years is not too long a time to give up hope, say women MPs as fresh attempts are in the offing to clear passage for a bill that sets aside 33 percent seats in parliament and the state legislatures for them. The Women's Reservation ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Expressing solidarity with the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, French author and activist Dominique Lapierre has said the children growing up in the affected area are drinking "poisoned water". After visiting the survivors who were protesting near Jantar Mantar here Sunday evening, Lapierre ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) About 50 women activists, led by the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) and other organisations, Monday breached high security and agitated for 40 minutes outside the main gate of Parliament demanding enactment of the bill envisaging 33 per cent reservation for women in ... Read more...

By Rajeev Ranjan Roy New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A lone voice has emerged from the corridors of power to plead for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles in Orissa - seeking a ban on all missile tests from Chandipur during April and May every year. Bhartruhari Mahtab, a member of the ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Under attack from friends and foes alike for failing to check spiralling inflation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will Monday finalise the roadmap for the women's reservation bill with the law ministry having prepared detailed notes to be taken up at the high level meet. "The ... Read more...

Srinagar, May 4 (IANS) Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's rehabilitation package, nine migrant Hindu families have returned to their homes in south Kashmir. Totalling nearly 40 members, these families had left their homes in Verinag town in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, 70 kms from here. Around 300,000 Hindus, known ... Read more...

By Manish Chand New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Ahead of the joint meeting on the India-US civil nuclear deal next week, the Left has said that the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline's fate will prove how independent India's foreign policy is under the present dispensation. "If the pipeline deal goes through, then we ... Read more...

By Sushma Ramachandran With prices rising relentlessly at the rate of over seven percent per annum, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to have been gripped with an air of quiet desperation. Virtually every day the prime minister and his Finance Minister P. Chidambaram ... Read more...