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September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Hoping to resume the stalled peace process and discuss "the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir", Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said Monday that he would meet his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao in New York Sep 26. The meeting of the two foreign secretaries will be followed by talks between India's External Affairs Minister S.M.

September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on September 26 followed by foreign ministers' level talks on September 27 in New York, resuming the dialogue process on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Monday confirmed that a meeting with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao would be held on September 26 in New York.

July 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, who met here late Tuesday, will meet once again Wednesday before the prime ministers of the two countries hold talks, official sources said. Holding out the possibility that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani would perhaps meet the press together after their talks Thursday morning, sources here said that the two foreign secretaries held one-on-one discussions for 90 minutes.

June 17th, 2009 KATHMANDU - After a week of political deadlock over the distribution of ministerial berths among the coalition partners, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will finally expand his cabinet today. Addressing a meeting of the CPN (UML) parliamentary board here this morning, the Prime Minister said the cabinet would be expanded and the new ministers would be sworn in by 2 pm today.

June 5th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has expanded his three-member cabinet by inducting one deputy prime minister and seven new ministers including six ministers from Nepali Congress and one from the CPN (ML) here on Thursday. Prime Minister Nepal administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Ministers at in the presence of the President Dr.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Almost 50 years divide the oldest and the youngest member of Manmohan Singh's new council of ministers that took shape Wednesday. The average age of the 78-member council is 57.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thirty-eight ministers, including 14 cabinet ministers, will be sworn in Thursday morning in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's council of ministers. These include seven ministers with independent charge.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Having a degree in law can apparently improve one's chances of getting a ministerial berth as nearly half of the cabinet members have studied the subject. Of the 33 cabinet ministers named by Wednesday, 15 hold a degree in law.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expands his council of ministers Thursday, adding 14 cabinet ministers, including three former chief ministers and three DMK leaders, and 45 ministers of state. Of the ministers of state, seven will have independent charge.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The morning after taking oath for his second consecutive term, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called a meeting of the new cabinet at his residence here. The meeting is basically to decide the dates for parliament sessions and when to present the budget, said an official at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after taking oath as Prime Minister for the second term, Manmohan Singh called a meeting of the Union Cabinet today. According to sources, it is likely to take a decision on convening a Parliament session to enable new members to take oath.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be sworn in for a second term along with 19 other ministers, including Pranab Mukherjee and P. Chidambaram, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Friday evening, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has announced.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will convene a meeting of the Union Cabinet in the national capital on Monday morning.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has met President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and submitted the resignation of the Union Cabinet and recommended the dissolution of the 14th Lok Sabha.

January 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani will Monday evening hold a meeting with all chief ministers from his party and its partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).