‘Satisfied’ Manmohan returns New Delhi after G-20 summit

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 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Following a spate of accidents at Delhi Metro construction sites, Delhi Government may initiate legal action against Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), if it observes fault with pending studies on safety of workers at its sites, said Delhi Labour Secretary K S Wahi on Tuesday. "Definitely we are not satisfied.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned home Friday from a four-day trip to France and Egypt, the highlight of which was a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and a joint statement from the two leaders that gets the two countries to begin talks again. Manmohan Singh's first stop was Paris where he attended the French National Day parade.

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.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned home Saturday morning after attending the July 8-10 G8-G5 summit in the quake-hit Italian town of L?Aquila. "I am returning to India after attending meetings of the G5 leaders (India, Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa), of the G5 + G8 and Egypt, and of the G8, G5, Egypt and African countries.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime MInister Manmohan Singh briefly met with US President Barack Obama during the outreach meeting of G8 and G5 leaders at their summit here Thursday. Both leaders shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Indian officials said here.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left for Italy Tuesday to participate in the G8-G5 summit to be held in the earthquake-hit mountain town of L'Aquila, 100 km northeast of Rome. The prime minister will be attending outreach meetings of the G8, the world's most wealthy and industrialised countries, and G5, the major emerging economies in the world, during his four-day trip.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Two back-to-back summits and four bilateral meetings in less than 24 hours could test the nerves of any world leader. But Manmohan Singh, the 76-year-old Indian prime minister, looked fresh and energetic at the end of a long working day.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBERG - India will convey a clear message to Pakistan to take credible action against terrorism when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday for the first time after the Mumbai attacks. The meeting is more of an ice breaker and it will not lead to an immediate resumption of the dialogue between the two countries, stalled since the Mumbai attacks nearly seven months ago.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBERG - India and China will hold the next round of talks on the boundary dispute Aug 7-8 in New Delhi, official sources said here Monday night ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Prime Minister Singh and President Hu will discuss a host of issues relating to bilateral relations, and the boundary dispute will also figure in the talks, highly placed sources said.

April 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here in the early hours of Saturday after a four-day visit to London to attend the G20 summit. On the margins of the summit, he also held bilateral talks with his host and British counterpart Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today met his British counterpart Gordon Brown in London at 10 Downing Street ahead of G20 summit.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and India are both hoping that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would meet on the sidelines of next month's summit of Group of 20 leading economies in London. 'We both hope there would be a meeting between the two leaders,' Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said at a press conference here Wednesday after concluding the first high-level interaction with the new Obama administration.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected to attend the G-20 Summit in London on April 2.

March 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - If his doctors give him the go-ahead, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating from a coronary bypass surgery, will go to London to attend the G20 summit in London April 2. This will be the prime minister's first overseas visit this year and the first after his bypass surgery nearly six weeks ago.