Upa I Government

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  "People Say I Was...": When Manmohan Singh Defended "Silent PM" Charge

  Dr Manmohan Singh's critics often labelled him as a "silent Prime Minister", taking a dig at his reticent demeanour during his decade-long tenure at the helm of the UPA government from 2004 to 2014.

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  "I Stand With Modiji": Jibe From Shashi Tharoor Over Ladakh's Buffer Zone

  The mutual withdrawal of Chinese and Indian troops in Ladakh, leaving a buffer zone, that has helped the Congress and its senior leader Shashi Tharoor to settle an old dispute. The target was Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who tweeted a jibe in 2013 at the then UPA government in a similar situation.

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  Ishrat Case: I Was Allured To Go Up To Modi As SIT Chief, Says Satyapal Singh

  A former Mumbai Police commissioner and BJP lawmaker Satyapal Singh today said that as the SIT chairman he was allured by the then Congress-led UPA government to frame Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan.

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  Nitish Kumar Talks Centre-State Cooperation, Says Can Meet PM Modi

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said in the "interest of Bihar", he was ready even to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "I would like to thank Narendra Modi for this wishes," Mr Kumar said soon after taking oath. "In the interest of Bihar, if I have to meet Mr Modi, I will do so."

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  Taxmen Must Recover Legitimate Dues: Arun Jaitley

  Referring to the retrospective tax amendments by the UPA government, Mr Jaitley said "I have not been able to see the real colour of money as far as those taxes are concerned because some court somewhere has stopped it or quashed it. But what has happened in the process is that it has brought us a bad name".

• Op-ed: Elections 2014 is a battle for India's soul, says Shashi Tharoor

  India, I have long argued, is more than the sum of its contradictions. It is a country held together, in the words of Nehru, "by strong but invisible threads... a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive".

• Average economic growth during UPA I & II at 7.7%: Prime Minister

  Agriculture growth rate, it said, has been rising consistently and the sector expanded by 2.5 per cent and 3.7 per cent during the 10th and 11th Five Year Plans, respectively, and expected to touch 4 per cent in the ongoing 12th Plan period.

• Cyclone Phailin: Why should you grudge if I give credit to UPA, says minister Jaipal Reddy

  The Congress seemed to take credit today for the effective handling of the situation after cyclone Phailin struck, when Science and Technology Minister S Jaipal Reddy used a party platform to highlight the role of central agencies in accurately predicting the cyclone's path and force and evacuating lakhs in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh before the mons...

• I still have some time to complete my present term: PM

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chief guest at the NDTV Indian of the Year 2012 today, said his government would last its full five years, and refused once again to comment on a third term as PM, saying, "I still have some time complete this term."

• Isolated Mamata Banerjee looks to Left for face-saver on no-confidence motion

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she is willing to support even a Left-sponsored no-confidence motion on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. "I am ready to talk to any party on no-confidence motion. If the Left brings no-confidence, Trinamool is ready to support it. If CPI brings no-confidence, Trinamool is re...

• I can always hiss if can't bite: Mamata Banerjee

  A day after six of her six of her ministers quit the UPA government on FDI and other 'people' related issues, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said, "I can always hiss if I can't bite."

• Don't know why Mamata Banerjee says she did not know about FDI: Digvijaya Singh to NDTV

  Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has said all efforts were made to get Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on board with the government's decision to hike diesel prices, cap subsidised LPG and introduce foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. "I think all efforts have been made. I hope she will see reason in the steps we have t...

• If I was in UPA-II, I would not be celebrating: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  The Biocon chairperson slammed the government, saying its "xenophobia is not conducive for foreign direct investment" and that foreign investors were negative on putting their money into India. The scathing remarks came as UPA-II completed three years. “I am deeply disappointed with UPA-II,” she told NDTV.

• I am in the dark, says Pranab on Presidential nomination

  Pranab Mukherjee today refused to add any fodder to the talk of him being the front-runner for the presidential candidate, saying he was himself "in the dark" over the issue that has hogged headlines back home.

• No loss of faith in the India story: Pranab Mukherjee

  On the sidelines of the annual World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington, the Finance Minister acknowledges that the government's success will depend on its ability to take coalition partners along. "I shall have to try to achieve fiscal consultation what I have indicated in my budget speech and in the long term, we must achieve the higher growth t...