New Delhi : The government has decided to set up a Group of Ministers to consider amendments in the existing laws to deal with the honour killings across the country.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet held under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Briefing media later, Information and Broadcasting [...]
New Delhi : NCP Chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday met the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and requested him to reduce the burden on him.
Asked what he meant by reducing the burden, 70-year-old Pawar, who has Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs portfolios but only one Minister of State, said, its the prerogative of the Prime [...]
New Delhi : The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said the Indian economy is poised to grow by double digits in the next two-three years, having successfully weathered the impact of the global downturn.
Addressing a function organised by Merchants’ Chamber of Uttar Pradesh in Kanpur, he said, global economic recession did not have much [...]
New Delhi : The new terminal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was inaugurated this morning by the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh with National Advisory Council Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
The actual operations for international services will begin on the 16th of this month.
Touted as world’s largest and most modern airport in the [...]
Business : The Reserve Bank of India has called for formulating a calibrated exit policy to strike a balance between growth and inflation. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh echoed similar sentiments at the recently concluded G20 summit in Toronto.
The apex bank says that in the post-crisis scenario in its report on currency and finance [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday night concluding his successful visit to the G-20 Summit at Toronto in Canada.
Dr. Singh’s visit set the priorities for maintaining sustainable and balanced growth in response to the fragile and uneven recovery from the global economic crises.
Speaking to the reporters on board [...]
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that the decisions on the recent hike in petrol prices and freeing subsidies were in tune with the high level of existing subsidies in petroleum products.
He said, subsidies in petrol had reached a level which is not connected to the sound financial management of our economy. The Prime [...]
India and Canada have signed a civil nuclear agreement after the bilateral meeting between Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper.
Jointly addressing the media after the inking of the agreement, the two leaders welcomed the Agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, that paves the way for civil nuclear [...]
Prime Minister has visited the Kanishka Memorial in Toronto and met the family members of the victims of the Air crash in 1985.
Dr Singh told them that the entire Indian nation shares their sense of loss and grief.
Earlier, speaking at a joint media interactions on the sidelines of his bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister [...]
The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh apolozised for tragic incident of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Addressing the Canadian MPs of Punjab origin in Toronto, the Prime Minister asked to move on to heal the wounds of the tragic incidents.
He said that Sikhs in India are no longer restricted to Punjab but are actively participating in all spheres [...]