Tag: Manmohan Singh

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

Author Daman Singh, daughter of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Saturday said she failed to understand why people label her father as "silent" and revealed she was coming up with a collection of "everything" he said in the last 10 years.

New Delhi: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was apparently unhappy over the layout of party manifesto released on Tuesday as she wanted a bigger picture of party President Rahul Gandhi on the cover, sources said on Wednesday. Sonia Gandhi, who did not look her usual self, conveyed her viewpoint to party leader Rajeev Gowda, the convener […]

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that Nyay scheme of the Congress will usher in an era of minimum income guarantee in India, end poverty and restart the economic engine which has “come to a stop” under the Narendra Modi government. In a statement, Singh said that implementation of Nyay, which […]

New Delhi: With the BJP highlighting the issue of nationalism in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Thursday said that multiple surgical strikes were carried out during the tenure of Congress-led UPA government. Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a tweet: “Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure too. For us, […]

Guwahati: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kamakhya Prasad Tasa and senior Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader Birendra Prasad Baishya on Tuesday filed nominations for the two Rajya Sabha seats from Assam, which will fall vacant on June 14. “I have filed the nomination as the BJP leadership asked me to. It’s an honour that the […]