No input from Pak on David Coleman Headley: Manmohan Singh

November 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said he had received no information from Pakistan over a reported Lashkar-e-Taiba terror plot to attack India and called for collective international action to combat terrorism in the region. We have not received any information from Pakistan on this issue, Manmohan Singh told reporters here.

November 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Intelligence agencies believe that Islamist militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has targets in India apart from those publicised recently -- the National Defence College here, plus two prominent boarding schools, Doon in Dehradun and Woodstock in Mussoorie. Intelligence shared by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following the interrogation of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana who were arrested on charges of planning major terrorist attacks in India and Denmark indicate more targets were on the LeT's radar in India, said top intelligence sources.

November 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government Wednesday said adequate measures had been taken to secure the National Defence College (NDC) here after the interrogation of Pakistan-born US-based men unravelled a terror plot to target the institution. Minister of State for Defence M.M.

October 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Indian investigators will Monday question David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India on behalf of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

October 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday dismissed the view that the mysterious 'Rahul' figuring as a target of David Headley arrested by the FBI in the U.S for allegedly plotting terror-attacks overseas, including India, being Congress Party's General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.

October 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had shared documents with India about the arrest of the American national, whom the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) planned to use for a terror strike in India, before making it public.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday told parliament that Pakistan did not give any dossier to India on Balochistan when he met his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani in Egypt July 16. No such dossier was given, Manmohan Singh said while intervening in a debate in Lok Sabha on the July 16 India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh that delinked Islamabad's action on terror from the composite dialogue process.

July 14th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his delegation arrived at this Egyptian town Thursday evening, just in time for Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to meet his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir. The Tuesday night meeting will be followed by talks between Manmohan Singh and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday 10.30 a.m.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left Monday for a four-day trip to Paris, where he will attend the French National Day parade, and the Egyptian resort town of Sharm-el-Sheikh for the 15th Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. Manmohan Singh, who is the first foreign leader to be accorded the honour of being chief guest at the Bastille Day parade, will be in Paris for a day before leaving for Sharm-el-Sheikh.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Wednesday invited Manmohan Singh to be the next prime minister of India and asked him to advise her on the council of ministers. Claiming the support of 322 MPs, Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi had staked claim to form the next government at a meeting with the president.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Saturday rang up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulating him as India's ruling coalition was on its way to victory in the Lok Sabha elections. According to sources in the Prime Minister's Office, Manmohan Singh is expected to call on Sonia Gandhi later in the evening when all results of the election are known.

April 21st, 2009 PATNA - Manmohan Singh is not the final choice for prime minister if the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) comes back to power, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad asserted Tuesday and said the decision on the top job would be taken only after the elections. Though the Congress has projected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the man for the job if UPA wins the polls, key alliance partner Lalu Prasad said the decision would be taken by all the constituents of the UPA, not just the Congress.

March 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Bharatiya Janata Pary's (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani Friday reiterated his call to Manmohan Singh to contest the Lok Sabha polls instead of becoming prime minister as a Rajya Sabha member.

March 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who underwent a coronary bypass surgery in January, is 'perfectly fine and fit', it was announced Sunday after a medical check-up. Manmohan Singh, 76, visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here earlier in the day for a routine examination and spent about 15 minutes there.

February 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid speculation over its prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party Friday said Manmohan Singh was the prime minister and there was no vacancy for the post. 'Manmohan Singh is our prime minister and there is no vacancy to the post of prime minister,' Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan told reporters here.