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A brief visit to Nepal may be the last by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a foreign country before his 10-year-long term ends after the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Ministry of External Affairs has confirmed that Singh had received an invitation from ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha on Monday questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over his decision to address an upcoming seminar on nuclear non-proliferation, claiming that he was now the head of a "lame duck" government who cannot make any policy decisions in view of the Model Code of Conduct which has come into force ahead of Lok Sabha polls. In a letter to the prime minister, Sinha raised serious objections over the huge government funding for the seminar, saying that most of ...

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Sunday asked that a scheduled expensive seminar on nuclear weapon-free world at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses should be postponed. The former external affairs ...

Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to call off or postpone a conference organized by Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) on nuclear non-proliferation.

AIADMK Supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up at the highest diplomatic level and secure the release of 177 fishermen from state who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy. In a ...

Mumbai: After another naval mishap BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Sunday targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for keeping mum on the issue of frequency of naval accidents in the country. "The number of incidents that are taking place in Navy is ...

The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to block the grant of the Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) to AirAsia India, arguing that the entry of the budget carrier will hurt competition in the market. The ...

Keep it simple is the standing instruction to the CPWD team handling the makeover of Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs retirement home. The bungalow at 3 Motilal Nehru Place, which was Sheila Dikshits residence over the past decade, is being stripped of signs of ...

Two days after writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the fishermen issue, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday wrote another letter seeking his intervention in the release of Tamil Nadu fishermen languishing in Sri Lankan ...