Foreign countries to attend Bengal agriculture summit

October 23rd, 2009 HUA HIN - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday pledged to deepen India's wide-ranging relations with East and Southeast Asia as he prepared to take part in the seventh India-Asean Summit and the fourth East Asia Summit in this Thai resort. In a statement ahead of his departure from New Delhi and also released here, Manmohan Singh, who will arrive here later Friday, said he also planned bilateral meetings with leaders with seven countries including China.

October 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Thursday described West Bengal as an "university of Maoist activities" where the ultras get training and launch armed strikes in other parts of the country. "West Bengal is a university of Maoist activities.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned here Sunday after attending the two-day G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, US. The summit was hosted by US President Barack Obama in which developing countries like India were assured a greater say in the affairs of the global financial system.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday left for the US to attend the G20 summit in Pittsburgh hosted by President Barack Obama. The summit will take stock of the state of the world economy following the year-long crisis and deliberate upon how to strengthen the global financial regulatory system.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Addressing the media following the G-5 outreach summit here, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, once again took on the West and blamed it for the current economic meltdown.

June 23rd, 2009 Poor nations want UN role in financial crisisUNITED NATIONS — The global financial crisis is being tackled by the eight major industrialized nations, the 20 key economic powers, and regional groups. Now, the U.N.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Global economic recovery was closely linked to the success of the economies of the four BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday before leaving for the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to attend a summit of the grouping. Stressing that the four countries would play a crucial part in overcoming the ongoing economic slowdown, the prime minister said: The countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) together account for 40 percent of the world's population and 40 percent of global GDP.

June 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Luscious varieties of mangoes grown in West Bengal like the Himsagar, Langra and Fajli are being showcased at the three-day Mango Mahotsava fair here that is attracting crowds. The fair, which was inaugurated Friday, is being organised on a grand scale this time unlike earlier years.

June 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will visit Russia and the European Union (EU) for summits in mid June, said the presidential spokesman here Sunday. Zardari will pay a two-day visit to Russia from June 14 for participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Yakaterinburg, said Farhatullah Babar.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is likely to skip the CPI (M) politburo meeting on Monday in Delhi. The reason for the West Bengal Chief Minister skipping the politburo meeting is that he wants to "oversee the law and order situation in the state".

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of the ASEAN and an East Asia summit, India Thursday underlined the need for developing regional synergies to deal with the global financial crisis of 'unprecedented dimensions'. Commerce Minister Kamal Nath will represent India at the its summit meeting with 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be held at Pattaya in Thailand Saturday.

April 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tarak Mistry, a promising Bengal under-19 cricketer, died of tuberculosis at a city nursing home Tuesday. Mistry, 18, a talented right-arm fast bowler who turned out for Bengal last season, was ailing for a week, nursing home sources said.

April 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is preparing a report on land acquisition norms to help the government come up with a uniform policy, protecting the interests of both the industrial and the agricultural sectors. 'There should be transparent land bank available in every state for the purpose of industrial set-up so that the government can assure of continuous tract of land for industrialisation,' CII president Venu Srinivasan told reporters here Tuesday.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With his health showing steady improvement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the G-20 Summit in London April 2 - an occasion that will also be marked by his first meeting with newly installed US President Barack Obama. Ending uncertainty over the prime minister's forthcoming visit, his office confirmed Thursday that he will go to London on a four-day visit starting April 1 in view of the importance of the meeting that is expected to forge a collective strategy to deal with the global economic meltdown.

February 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - Former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, 94, surprised everyone at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headquarters when he turned up to attend their weekly party meeting Friday after a gap of six months. Basu had last attended the CPI-M state secretariat meeting at the party headquarters in Alimuddin Street in August 2008.