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News Source: Kuensel Online
| 6 months ago
Congress led United Progressive Alliance made a thumping comeback with even more seats than in the last elections...For Bhutan, the election results couldn't have been better since it ensures a continuity in the Indian political leadership who...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 6 months ago
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in on Friday for a second five-year term with expectations his strengthened left-of-center coalition could both reform a slowing economy and help millions of poor. Singh's Congress party-led coalition...
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News Source: The Hindustan Times
| 6 months ago
With a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet President Pratibha Patil to stake claim to form the new government. This was decided unanimously at a meeting of the leaders of the...
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News Source: The Hindustan Times
| 6 months ago
Asked if DMK would stress for a change in the foreign policy of the UPA government so that India could intervene in Lanka, Karunanidhi said, "There is no agenda for a change in the policy." Karunanidhi, who arrived in New Delhi from Chennai, said he...
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News Source: Hindu
| 6 months ago
With the virtual rout of the Third and Fourth Fronts, the Bharatiya Janata Party hopes to fully occupy the Opposition space in the polity and in Parliament and discharge its job “responsibly.” Senior general secretary Arun Jaitley indicated here...
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News Source: The Hindustan Times
| 6 months ago
The bane of government formation in this era of coalition politics has been the Prime Minister’s loss of prerogative to set up a council of ministers of his choice. But Manmohan Singh has altered after 20 long years — since V P Singh’s short-...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 6 months ago
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been sworn in for a second term after his Congress party won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections. The economist, 76, took the oath of office Friday during a ceremony at the presidential palace in New...
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News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
Manmohan Singh is set to be sworn in at the head of a new Indian government in the capital, Delhi. Mr Singh will be taking charge for a second term, only the second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned to power after a full five-year term. The...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 6 months ago
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be sworn in for a second term, following the resounding election victory of his Congress-led alliance. The 76-year-old, soft-spoken economist and his 60-strong cabinet were scheduled to take their oath of...
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News Source: Japan Times
| 6 months ago
The outcome of the just-concluded 2009 national poll in India reflect continuity because the verdict was clearly in favor of an incumbent coalition government that presages political stability. Equally, the results are indicative of change because...