Birthday boy Manmohan says he’s indebted to Indians (Lead, Changing Dateline)

September 26th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Relatives of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his other well-wishers here on Saturday celebrated his 77th birthday by distributing sweets and holding prayers for his long life and good health. Dr.Singh, meanwhile, celebrated his birthday on board aircraft with wife Gursharan Kaur, daughter Amrit and other colleagues accompanying him during his return journey from Pittsburgh for G20 summit.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Starting his day early, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from three countries on the margins of the G20 Summit here Friday. His first meeting was with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 7.30 a.m.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who turns 77 Saturday, has vowed to dedicate himself to the nation, saying people's renewal of confidence in him after five years in office was a debt he could never pay off. "I am grateful to people of India for giving me opportunity to serve the nation," he told reporters here Friday.

July 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor arrived Monday in the US on a week-long visit for talks with top military officials including Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. On his first visit to the US as the Indian Army chief, Gen.

July 14th, 2009 PARIS - Four hundred soldiers from the Indian armed forces will lead the marchpast down historic Champs Elysees later Tuesday as France celebrates the beginning of its revolution more than 200 years ago with the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789. And watching the parade will be Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first foreign leader to be accorded the honour.

May 1st, 2009 Peru Indians block jungle airport in land protestLIMA, Peru — Ashaninka and Yines Indians are blocking an airport in the central Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya as well as two stations on a northern oil pipeline to protest laws that they say threaten their ancestral land and resources. Edson Rosales, spokesman for an Indian rights group in the Amazon, says 15,000 Indians have been protesting since April 9 and plan to start taking over oil and gas rigs.

May 1st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malaysian Hindu Youth Organization has said that Indians should promote the Tamil language and ensure it is not tainted by foreign cultures. It also said that only if people are united are not jealous of one another can the nation propser.

April 25th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is reportedly concerned that many Malay Indians may not have the financial means to take up the 15 per cent quota of Amanah Saham Malaysia (ASM) units allocated to the community. Party president S.

April 23rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who cast his vote here Thursday, said a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government would form the government at the centre once again. 'The Congress in Assam will win a thumping majority and there will be a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre,' Manmohan Singh told journalists soon after casting his vote along with his wife Gursharan Kaur.

April 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday that India needs a 'wise and experienced' leadership that will understand modern day challenges and not divide the country on the basis of religion, caste and region. Addressing the media, Manmohan Singh said the current global scenario has changed drastically and the challenges before the country have also changed.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday described as 'bogus' the figures Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani has furnished of black money Indians have allegedly stashed away abroad, saying the party suffered from 'bankruptcy in economic thinking'.

April 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - He is from southern India and a powerful figure at that. So, who better than Home Minister P.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Most birthdays are happy occasions. But one can't be too sure in Uttar Pradesh, especially if it's the birthday of Chief Minister Mayawati, says Rashtriya Lok Dal's chief Ajit Singh.

March 12th, 2009 TUMKUR - Nine political parties from across the country gathered here Thursday to launch a Third Front, which its leaders said would strive to be an alternative to both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nationally. Former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader H.D.

January 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday urged the central government to probe Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's acquisitions, especially the expensive birthday gifts showered on her. Referring to her self-proclaimed collection of party funds that she received as birthday gifts, Yadav said: 'It is high time that the centre intervenes and directs the income tax department to go into details of the money Mayawati received in the name of gifts on her birthday on Jan 15.' Reacting to Mayawati's assertion during the course of her birthday celebration earlier in the day that her birthday receipts had doubled over what she received in 2008, the Samajwadi Party chief said: 'Since the amount was not declared by her, she could just put any figure and attribute the receipt to just anybody.' He felt there was reason to believe that the Income Tax authorities were particularly lenient with Mayawati, 'as she is always let off by the department that seems to be gunning for me and my family'.