PM says India can return to 8% growth rate

By Harim Peiris Mahinda Rajapaksa with Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced that elections to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) would be conducted in September this year, ahead of the Commonwealth ...

On Board Air India One: Speaking for the first time after the key United Progressive Alliance (UPA) ally DMK pulled out support to government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that Congress-led Central government will last its full term and ...

Prime Minster Dr Manmohan Singh visits Jammu and Kashmir at a crucial juncture. There is a new political dispensation in place in Pakistan. His government is aiming at revisiting the past mistakes to make a fresh initiative. The visit is linked with those ...

Following is the list of the council of ministers after Monday's cabinet reshuffle:- Manmohan Singh: Prime minister, Minster of Personnel and Public Grievances and Pension, Minister of Planning, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space.- A.K. Antony: ...

This is the subject being hotly debated in media, especially after some BJP men mentioned Narendra Modi as their choice. People get the rulers as they deserve. But we as people are not so degraded as to have a person like Modi to preside upon our ...

Law Minster Ashwani Kumar attended a cabinet meeting on Thursday evening at the Prime Minister's 7 Race Course Road residence. Railway Minister Pawan Bansal did not. Related Stories Aarushi case: Supreme Court to hear Talwars' plea today No place for acid ...

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has targeted prime minister Manmohan Singh saying that although he is a nice man but with not any independence to run the country. It seems it is the first time when he has attacked in such a way saying ...

You are the seniormost, sometimes a mentor-like leader I can still call my dear friend, Prime minster Shinzo Abe told Manmohan Singh at the banquet hosted in his honour on Wednesday. There was no dearth of warmth and personal chemistry between the ...

Through the day today, his government's fourth birthday, Dr Manmohan Singh's performance as Prime Minster was under intense scrutiny. The BJP questioned his leadership and a minister suggested he had had his run as PM. In the evening, the 80-year-old Dr Singh ...