Prime Minister of India Incumbent: Dr. Manmohan Singh Date of Birth: Sept. 26‚ 1932 Term: May 2009 to date. This is his second straight five-year stint as prime minister. Unlikely to run for office in future. Key facts: -- Singh’s reputation was forged in his time as finance minister in the 1990s‚ when he pushed through a series of economic reforms which set the stage for India’s subsequent boom and entry onto the world stage as a rising economic power. -- He seemed an unlikely choice for prime
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Minister for I&B Launched the Online Portal for the Bharat Nirman Campaign Vice President of India Released a Book Entitled India and Malaysia: Intertwined Strands Scientists discovered the Single Largest Volcano beneath the Pacific Ocean Manmohan Singh released a Postage Stamp in memory of Lala Jagat Narayan Liberal Party won the Parliamentary elections in Australia Wrestling voted back for 2020 and 2024 Olympics Games I&B Ministry launched All India Radio’s Free
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IS BECOMING A FADING WORDIN THE HISTORY BOOKS. FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS WILL SOON VANISH. KHUSHWANT SINGH‚ WHO WASOVER THIRTY AT THE TIME‚ LATER WROTE TRAIN TO PAKISTAN AND GOT IT PUBLISHED IN 1956.REPRINTED SINCE THEN‚ REISSUED IN HARDCOVER‚ AND TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES‚ THE NOVEL IS NOW KNOWN AS A CLASSIC‚ ONE OF THE FINEST AND BEST-KNOWN TREATMENTS OF THE SUBJECT. About the author Khushwant Singh‚ one of the best -known Indian writers of all times‚ was born in 1915 in Hadali (now in Pakistan)
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CURRENT AFFAIRS-FEB 2012 MICA-MARCH NEWS AND EVENT— MARCH B.SC- MARCH PD -MARCH WEEKLY G.K. For (15 FEB-15 MARCH) PD-MARCH-2013 NATION India Opts out of WTO talks in Three Sectors: India has decided to opt out of negotiations for agreements between select WTO (World Trade Organisation) member countries for liberalising foreign direct investment and visa regimes in service sectors and for lowering import duty on 357 information technology products
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another country. Competitive risks must be taken into consideration when providing services and products to another market. In 2008‚ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released India’s first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) the plan outlined existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation (Singh‚ 2012). The statement by the Prime Minister sparked the interest in entrepreneurs to dive into an emerging market that welcomes change. The NAPCC also says these
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Cooperation without trust: India-China relations today by Abhilash Roy Nalpathamkalam Debates about Sino-Indian relations often start off from either one of two different‚ and even contradictory‚ schools of thought. The first of them takes a “realist” point of view‚ arguing that each of the two emerging powers would fight for dominance in the Asian continent. It tends to describe relations between the two countries as hostile. This could even lead to military confrontation between the two nations
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Minister and also In-Charge of the Ministries/Departments viz: Ministry of Personnel‚ Public Grievances and Pensions Ministry of Planning Ministry of Water Resources Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space Name of Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Minister of Finance Shri Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Shri Sharad Pawar Affairs‚ Food & Public Distribution Minister of Defence Minister of Home Affairs
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Every 12 hours‚ one farmer commits suicide in India 1 of 3 http://www.indiatribune.com/index.php?view=article&catid=106:magaz... Every 12 hours‚ one farmer commits suicide in India In the 1990s India woke up to a spate of farmers suicides. The first state where suicides were reported was Maharashtra. Soon newspapers began to report similar occurrences from Andhra Pradesh. The government appointed a number of inquiries to look into the causes of farmers’ suicide and farm-related distress in general
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deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In addition‚ the IMF required India to undertake a series of structural economic reforms.[2] As a result of this requirement‚ the government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh (currently the Prime Minister of India) started breakthrough reforms‚ although they did not implement many of the reforms the IMF wanted.[3][4] The new neo-liberal policies included opening for international trade and investment‚ deregulation‚ initiation
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List of Prime Ministers of India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The complete list of Prime Ministers of India includes the persons sworn into the office as Prime Minister of India following the proclamation of the independence of India in 1947. Key: No.: Incumbent No. CM: Council of Ministers Congress: Indian National Congress‚ Indian National Congress (Indira)‚ United Progressive Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party: Bharatiya Janata Party‚ National
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