The Independent On Manmohan Singh

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  Free Expression In Universities Under Threat: Manmohan Singh

  Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said independent thinking and free expression at Indian universities were under "threat" in the wake of unrest at the University of Hyderabad (HCU) and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

• Manmohan Singh led 'most corrupt' government in free India: LK Advani

  BJP leader L K Advani today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying as his decade-long tenure draws to a close, he leaves behind a record of having presided over the "most corrupt" government in Independent India.

• PIL against Ministry's advisory to news channels over reporting on Prime Minister

  A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Allahabad High Court seeking to quash the information and broadcasting ministry's "advisory" that threatened TV news channels with cancellation of their licences for comparing the prime minister with leaders of other political parties.

• Independence Day slugfest: Modi "a frog, a national embarrassment," says Congress

  The clash of the Independence Day speeches turned into a political slugfest on Friday as the Congress and the BJP sparred over Narendra Modi's no holds barred attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech on India's 67th Independence Day.

• Independence Day: Quotes that made news

  The clash of the Independence Day speeches turned into a political slugfest as the Congress and the BJP sparred over Narendra Modi's no holds barred attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech on India's 67th Independence Day.

• Congress, BJP netas fight over hoisting the tricolour in Mussoorie

  It would have been comic if it were not so appallingly tragic and shameful. Two middle-aged men have been caught on camera clinging to a flag pole as they push and heckle each other trying to claim the honour of hoisting the Indian Tricolour on Independence Day.

• On Independence Day, PM Manmohan Singh urges Opposition to let Parliament function smoothly

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday appealed to the lawmakers to let Parliament run smoothly and allow the food security bill to be passed, sources said.

• President Pranab Mukherjee hosts At Home function on Independence Day

  President Pranab Mukherjee today hosted an 'At Home' function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on the occasion of 67th Independence Day during which he walked past the security barricade to greet the guests.

• LK Advani indirectly takes on Narendra Modi, says today is not the day to attack political parties

  LK Advani indirectly takes on Narendra Modi, says today is not the day to attack political parties

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  INS Sindhurakshak explosion: Did lapses lead to tragedy?

  As navy divers struggle to salvage INS Sindhurakshak, the submarine that exploded with 18 crewmen on board on Wednesday, it now emerges that procedures may have been violated that resulted in what the government has called the "greatest tragedy in recent times."

• 10 things Narendra Modi attacked PM on in his Independence Day speech

  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a college in the Kutch desert an hour after the Prime Minister made his Independence Day address from the Red Fort in Delhi, picked holes in Dr Manmohan Singh's words. Mr Modi threw down the gauntlet and took digs at the PM and the Congress party.

• At Bhuj college, Narendra Modi challenges, taunts Manmohan Singh

  Narendra Modi, speaking at a college in the Kutch desert an hour after the Prime Minister made his Independence Day address at the Red Fort in Delhi, took on Manmohan Singh directly, as he had promised yesterday.

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warns narrow, sectarian ideologies will weaken democracy

  In an apparent attack on BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today warned that "narrow and sectarian ideologies" would "weaken" the democracy and the country and they should be prevented from growing.

• Deepest sympathies with the people of Uttarakhand: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed sympathies to the people of Uttarakhand and said that the entire country is with them in the moment of crisis.

• Independence Day: New Delhi enveloped in security blanket

  An elaborate ground-to-air security blanket enveloped the capital today with thousands of armed personnel keeping a tight vigil to thwart any possible terror strike on Independence Day