Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has “outstanding credentials” to be nominated the UPA’s prime ministerial candidate. “…I do not intend to be prime ministerial candidate if the UPA were to come to power after the general elections,” the prime minister said at a media interaction here. “Rahul Gandhi has […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday inflation remained unexpectedly high and his government did not succeed in creating adequate jobs in the manufacturing sector during his decade-long tenure. “I am concerned that we have not been as successful as we need to be in generating employment in the manufacturing sector. This is an aspect of […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared Friday that he will step down after the next Lok Sabha election. “In a few months time, after the general election, I will hand the baton over to a new prime minister,” Manmohan Singh told the media here. “I hope it will be a UPA chosen prime minister, and our […]
The government Thursday approved the first project under the Nirbhaya fund, approving the installation of panic buttons, CCTV cameras and Global Positioning System (GPS) devices in public transport vehicles in 32 cities in India. The approval was given by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) at its meeting held here. The central government had […]
The 16-year-old girl, who died after being raped twice by a gang and then set ablaze, was pregnant, according to police who sent the foetus for forensic test to determine its age and parentage. The West Bengal government continued to come under attack from the opposition and civil society for the “shameful incident”. Chief Secretary […]
A public interest litigation was Thursday filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the CBI to register a case of cheating and corruption against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for misleading citizens by making “false promises in election manifesto”. The case is likely to come for hearing Jan 8 before a bench headed by […]
Andhra Pradesh minister D. Sridhar Babu, who hails from Telangana, Thursday resigned to protest the move of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy divesting him of the legislative affairs portfolio. Despite advice by All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary R.C. Kunthia not to quit, Sridhar Babu, who held the civil supplies portfolio, Thursday night sent […]
Karnataka BJP leaders late Thursday met former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa here and formally asked him to return to the party, over a year after he quit to head the Karnataka Janata Party. State Bharatiya Janata Party president Pralhad Joshi, Bangalore South MP H.N. Ananth Kumar, former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and former state unit chief […]
A gale of change has started sweeping across India. It has brought palpable hope. Millions, pushed beyond the periphery and treated with indifference by the Congress, BJP and smaller look-alike parties, are rejoicing. That slight-looking man, Arvind Kejriwal, the like of which has not appeared on the Indian political scene for a long time, has […]
With the launch of the Doha edition of the Malayala Manorama, Malayalam papers outnumber other dailies in the Gulf nation of Qatar. The launch of the Kerala-headquartered century-old vernacular daily Wednesday has taken the number of Malayalam newspapers published in Qatar to five, The Peninsula reported Thursday. The other Malayalam dailies that already have Doha […]