Tributes pour in for Dr Manmohan Singh Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim paid tribute former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh saying “Goodbye, my mitra, my bhai, Manmohan”, while remembering their shared times.Dr Manmohan Singh passed away Thursday night at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi at age of 92.Ibrahim called Singh a…
NEW DELHI: At least four to five people are feared dead after a private bus plunged into a drain near Jiwan Singh Wala village in Bathinda district on Friday.Earlier, PTI reported police as saying that over 20 passengers sustained injuries in the accident. The bus reportedly veered off a bridge and fell a few feet…
NEW DELHI: The United States issued over one million non-immigrant visas to Indians for the second year in a row, including a record number of visitor visas. As per a release by the US mission in the country, India also became the top sender of international students in 2024 — the first time since the…
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (File photo) NEW DELHI: World leaders and dignitaries from around the globe expressed their deep sorrow after the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, a pivotal figure in modern India’s economic transformation and a respected statesman on the international stage.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute…
NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, then 91, made an appearance in the Rajya Sabha in a wheelchair. It was August 7, 2023, and the Upper House was deliberating on the contentious Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023. Despite his frail health, Singh displayed his steadfast dedication to the democratic…
China has approved the construction of the world’s largest dam, stated to be the planet’s biggest infrastructure project, on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states India and Bangladesh.The project is set to come up in the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, the Tibetan name for Brahmaputra,…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said it would mobilise the constituents of INDIA bloc to get Congress evicted from the grouping if the main opposition party does not take action against its general secretary Ajay Maken, who, the party claimed, had dubbed Arvind Kejriwal anti-national.“Ajay Maken has crossed all limits by calling Kejriwal…
NEW DELHI: It was likely his darkest hour as PM – the shine of popular approbation, a key factor in Congress-led alliance’s 2009 election win, had worn off, to be replaced by ominous clouds with nary a silver lining in sight. But Singh, then at the helm of UPA-2’s scandals-hit govt, where ministerial bickerings were…
It was June 1991. Manmohan Singh had just returned to Delhi, after attending a conference in the Netherlands, and had gone to bed. Late that night, Singh’s son-in-law, Vijay Tankha, took a phone call. The voice on the other end was that of PC Alexander, a confidante of PV Narasimha Rao. Alexander urged Vijay to…
NEW DELHI: The number of states/UTs falling with high malaria burden in India has come down from 10 in 2015 to two in 2023, latest data shared by the health ministry shows. A state/UT is considered to have ‘high burden’, also referred to as category 3, if it has more than one malaria case per…
