Cong-SP powwow may sharpen Ambani tensions

The Indian government's bid to secure political support for a civilian nuclear deal with the United States stalled Thursday when a key regional party asked for more time to make a decision. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been wooing the Socialist ...

Outside the headquarters of India's main parties, television news teams crowd the streets, tracking the wrangling that has pushed the government to the brink of collapse. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, is near the end of a stand-off with ...

Setting a deadline for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to clarify its position on the India-US nuclear deal, the Communists on Friday asked the ruling coalition to face a floor test if they withdrew their legislative support...Hours after ...

In a realignment of political forces at the Centre, the Congress today clinched a deal under which the Samajwadi Party (SP) will extend outside support to the Manmohan Singh government, coming in for the Left parties whose 4-year acrimonious ...

But we will do so only after the Government formally conveys its decision to proceed with the deal," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat told the 'Outlook' magazine...Karat said the Left would also launch a nationwide campaign against the ...

IST(4/7/2008) Claiming that Samajwadi Party had conveyed its support to the nuclear deal, Congress on Friday expressed gratitude to it but was non-committal on the issue of inclusion of the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led party in the government. "We thank ...

President George Bush on the sidelines of the upcoming G-8 summit, the Indian government announced Friday amid tensions between the ruling coalition and communist allies...While officials did not confirm if the two leaders would discuss the nuclear ...

Virtually reaching a point of no return on the nuclear deal, the CPM has said the Left parties would vote against the UPA government in Parliament in case of a confidence motion on the agreement. "If there is a vote of confidence in Parliament on ...

U.S. companies have been lobbying heavily for the deal, hoping to sell nuclear power-related equipment to India. Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder and chief of the Samajwadi party, told reporters early Friday that Prime Minister Singh's explanation ...

8 IST Amid its keenness to see early implementation of the nuclear deal, a US Congressional delegation on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] and is understood to have pointed out that time was running out. The six-member delegation, ...