Tag: Manmohan Singh

Mumbai: While the makers of a film on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be asked to get a no objection certificate (NOC) from the man himself, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar can heave a sigh of relief for “Indu Sarkar” — a film on Indira Gandhi-declared Emergency. “Indu Sarkar” won’t have to get an NOC from anyone […]

Mumbai: Anupam Kher looks every bit of Manmohan Singh in the first look of a film adaptation of Sanjay Baru’s controversial book “The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh”, in which the veteran actor essays the former Indian Prime Minister. Anupam released the first-look poster of the film on Wednesday. “To reinvent […]

Ashok Patnaik, a senior IPS officer, was today appointed as the CEO of NATGRID, a robust intelligence gathering mechanism being set up to track terror suspects and incidents

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others were today summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8

Cases of corruption and multi- crore rupee scams hogged the limelight in 2014 with names of the high and mighty, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cropping up in trial courts here besides bringing down curtains on the 1975 murder case of the then Railway Minister L N Mishra

The CBI was on Tuesday asked by a Special Court as to whether it has examined former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was then holding coal portfolio, during its probe in the coal blocks allocation scam case involving top industrialist KM Birla, former coal secretary P C Parakh and others

Bidding adieu to the nation as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on Saturday said he had tried to do his best in serving the country and his tenure of 10 years was an "open book"

In his farewell speech to the Planning Commission, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said India's growth story is "work in progress" and there is still a long way to go

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday raised the issue of “distressing rise in incidence of atrocities against Dalits” with prime minster Narendra Modi and called upon the government to bring a bill in the monsoon session to tighten the law on atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In a letter to Modi, Gandhi […]

New Delhi: In a relief to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the Supreme Court on Wednesday put on hold the summons issued by a special court in connection with the allocation of 15 percent share in the Talabira II coal block to Kumar Mangalam Birla owned Hindalco. The apex court bench of Justice V. Gopala […]

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today led a solidarity march from the party headquarter here to former prime minister Manmohan Singh's house a day after he was named an accused in a coal block allocation case

New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was “upset” by a court here summoning him in a case relating to the allocation of coal blocks, but was “sure truth will prevail.” “Of course, I am upset but this is part of life. I have respect for the judicial process. I have […]

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said today that former prime minister Manmohan Singh was paying for the "sin" committed by the Congress party after a Delhi court summoned him as accused in a coal block allocation case

Pinning hopes on the good monsoon and recent reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said economic growth will cross 5 per cent in the current financial year and accelerate further in the coming years

Admitting government's failure to contain inflation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said high prices have helped farmers and asserted the country was heading for better times