Check-in bags are not coming off Air India One these days, as on most of the nights, the Prime Minister aims at sleeping on the plane rather than in foreign hotels to shorten his trips. In his latest trips to Belgium, US and Saudi Arabia between March 30 and April 2, Narendra Modi spent three […]
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Senior Congress leaders, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram slammed the Union Budget 2016-17 as having “no vision.” Dr. Singh said the announcement by the government that it would double the farm income in five years was an “impossible dream.” “It is a nit-picking budget.
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Former Presidents and Prime Ministers rarely speak, but when they do, the nation should listen to them with rapt attention. They represent the wisdom of the nation. They are expected to be non-partisan, render constructive advice and at times send a powerful message even to their own political party to act in broader national interest.
Former Union law minister H R Bharadwaj on Thursday revealed that he was under tremendous pressure from the Manmohan Singh government to get a favourable order from the Supreme Court, which was examining the UPA government’s decision to impose President’s rule in Bihar in 2005 to prevent the JD(U)-BJP combine from coming to power. Bharadwaj
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Hopes of a thaw on the GST bill emerged on Friday night with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaching out to the Congress leadership, which will discuss within the party the government’s response to its three objections on the measure. The government will establish “fresh contact” with the Congress once the party completes its internal
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Reaching out to main opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh for tea on Friday evening during which issues like GST may come up. Modi invited the Congress leaders at his Race Course Road residence at 7 PM, sources said. This assumes significance as the Government and the
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday cited his predecessors Jawaharlal Nehru and Manmohan Singh to highlight the connected histories of India and the UK during his historic address to British MPs. “So much of the modern history of India is linked to this building. So much history looms across our relationship,” Modi said. “I will
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A special court on Friday refused to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an accused in a coal scam case, observing that sufficient evidence was not there to call him and held ex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda’s plea in this regard as “devoid of any merits”. Dismissing Koda’s plea in which he had sought
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