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President Barack Obama hosts Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (MAHN'-moh-hahn SING) at the White House on Tuesday, the first state visit of his presidency. Complete Story...
Behind the elaborate ceremony of the Indian prime minister's state visit Tuesday, Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama will be working to smooth over differences on climate change and U.S. ties with Indian rivals China and Pakistan.
The Indian government is pushing ahead with economic reforms aimed at achieving a growth rate of more than 7 percent next year but will make sure the benefits reach the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.
Denmark urged the European Union, the United States and other rich countries to commit to financing for a new climate change deal, saying Friday that billions of dollars are needed.
The leaders of India and Pakistan met on the sidelines of a summit in Russia on Tuesday, raising hopes that they may be prepared to improve the strained relations of the nuclear-armed nations. But it was evident that last year's brutal terrorist attacks in Mumbai remain a big obstacle.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in for a second term Friday, even as talks broke down between his party and a key coalition partner.
President Barack Obama has called India's Manmohan Singh to congratulate him on being sworn-in for a second term as prime minister.
Newly elected Congress lawmakers formally chose Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as their leader for a second term Tuesday, clearing the way for the swearing in of his new government this week.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was released from a hospital Sunday, one week after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh successfully underwent heart bypass surgery Saturday, doctors said, adding that he would be fit to campaign for upcoming elections.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged more counter-terrorism help to Pakistan on Sunday, revealing that three-quarters of terror plots investigated in Britain linked back to al-Qaida supporters in the country.
U.S. and British citizens were the targets of the violent siege in Mumbai last week, although most of those killed in India's financial capital were Indians, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
The Senate's top Democrat expressed confidence Tuesday that senators could vote on a U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord as early as Wednesday, improving chances of passage for the landmark pact as lawmakers rush to finish work for the year.
The U.S. ambassador to India said Wednesday he hoped a landmark deal on nuclear energy cooperation with the United States could be sent to Congress for approval in September, one day after India's government won a confidence vote that paves the way for the agreement to move forward.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is expected to call a parliamentary confidence vote later this month that will determine its fate and the future of a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, a party official said Friday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's communist allies withdrew their support for his four-year-old coalition government on Tuesday to protest the government's plan to push forward with a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit aimed at boosting sometimes strained relations between the two Asian giants, whose massive populations and sizzling economies are increasingly driving world trade.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday welcomed recent peace proposals from Pakistan in the latest sign the rivals may be ready to start hashing out a deal over divided Kashmir.
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday agreed to provide Internet search services to Indian mobile phone users as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the company's expansion in the country.
Eight bombs exploded in first-class compartments of packed Bombay commuter trains Tuesday, killing 190 people and wounding hundreds in a well-coordinated terror attack on the heart of a city that embodies India's global ambitions.
There were three bomb blasts in India's troubled Maoist dominated North East as an operation by India security forces got underway.
Singh in Washington - and Pakistan's optionsIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official visit to the United States should have been the major story in Pakistan's media.
Obama to Chain Asian Watchdog -India India today is trying to blindly follow the policies of her military Guru Chankiya, where she is frantically driving for fulfillment of her eventual trance of Greater India and emergence of a sole regional power of South East Asia.
Angry farmers protest sugarcane pricing; PM holds emergency meetFaced with a protest by farmers and almost all opposition parties over sugarcane pricing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday held an emergency meeting on the issue with senior cabinet colleagues.
India is the biggest democracy in the world, a secular society aspiring to lead South Asia as it flaunts its societal and economic success upon its smaller neighbors.
Dr. Singh's India obsessed with image building has been running out of fingers to plug the holes in its incredible bucket.
Riding the StormTo say that Pakistan is in a clutch would still be an understatement.
Waziristan Operation? Some Ground RealitiesSouth Waziristan, given a combination of forbidding terrain and entrenched presence of the hardcore elements of TTP and al-Qaeda fighters, is a tough military nut to crack.
No justice for India's SikhsTwenty five years ago, on the morning of 1 November 1984, I woke up in London to get ready for school. My parents, of Indian Sikh origin, sat staring at the television screen. Nobody told us to brush our teeth, or to stop messing around with our Ready Brek.
Maoists' strategy to counter Cobra battalionIs the CPI (Maoist) planning to counter the operation to be launched by the newly established central para-military force, Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), in Bihar on the lines of Lalgarh in West Bengal?
Dalai Lama is adamant over visiting Arunanchal Pradesh this November; despite China's obvious anxiety shoring up under its revived diplomatic 'rapping' with India.
Indira Gandhi would not need dictatorshipIt would be 25 years on Saturday since Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards inside her well-guarded home.
Time for joint Indo-Pak action against terrorism New Delhi should realise that the road to Beijing goes through Islamabad. This is what a Pakistan foreign minister told me many years ago.
Manmohan's visit to disputed region irks ChinaBEIJING: India and China traded diplomatic jabs on Tuesday over a recent visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a border region at the core of a long-standing dispute between the neighbours.
Just Say NoIndian nuclear scientists are trying to bully their government into testing a nuclear weapon. That would be a huge setback — for India's relations with Washington, for the battle against terrorists, and for global efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
Honour Killings In Haryana"Only whores choose their own partners.... Recently an educated couple married against the samaj's (community's) wishes in Jhajjar. We hail the panchayat's decision to execute them...The government cannot protect this atyachar (immoral behaviour)....
On India's Farms, a Plague of SuicideBHADUMARI, India - Here in the center of India, on a gray Wednesday morning, a cotton farmer swallowed a bottle of pesticide and fell dead at the threshold of his small mud house.
International concerns grow over the safety of the Indian Nuclear ArsenalLONDON – Far removed from the photo-shopped images of 'Shining India', lies a dark and sinister shadow that stalks the Indian Republic.
INDIA: Internal insecurity more serious than external threatsOn 12 August, seven-year-old Juni Kumari was found missing from her home in the village of Ghagni in the state of Bihar, India. On 15 August, her body was found abandoned in a sugarcane field near her village. Juni's mother recovered the girl's body.
As swine flu takes 25th victim in Pune, disease, frustration and corruption daubs dark molasses across India; Shabana Shaikh who succumbed to the deadly virus last week in the government-run Sassoon Hospital was not the only one dying helpless within the limping cast of Incredib …
Indian Elections In Kashmir: The Impact On FreedomState assembly elections have been held in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the past and are likely to continue to be held in the future.
India Befriends Afghanistan, Irking PakistanKABUL -- After shunning Afghanistan during the Taliban regime, India has become a major donor and new friend to the country's democratic government -- even if its growing presence here riles archrival Pakistan.
One fourth of India hit by drought, growth projections in spinNew Delhi - Asiantribune.com: Drought is not official as yet in India. But that has not prevented the governments in Delhi and states to try to come to grips with the problem of crop failure and consequent low purchasing capacity in villages in at least 200 of the 600 districts.
Prime Minister Dr Singh's remark about communal violence in Karnataka provokes state Chief MinisterNew Delhi: The BJP-ruled Karnataka today dismissed as "not true" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's contention that the state had witnessed more communal disturbances in the recent times and maintained that some stray incidents were blown out of proportion.
BJP expels MP for sympathetic portrayal of Pakistan's founder - FT.com / UKIndia's Hindu nationalist party has expelled one of its senior leaders for writing a book sympathetic to the founder of neighbouring Pakistan, a move that analysts say reflects the ascendance of the most hardline elements since the party's recent parliamentary election defeat.
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