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Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh among Congress’ star campaigners for first phase
UP elections: Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party MP Rahul Gandhi and All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will campaign for the party.
Updated on Jan 25, 2022 03:09 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Sonia, Manmohan among Congress star campaigners for phase-1 UP polls
In a letter sent to the chief electoral officer of Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Monday named the 30 star campaigners of the Indian National Congress for the state assembly polls.
Updated on Jan 24, 2022 04:28 PM IST
Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Sohini Goswami, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Manmohan Singh's condition stable, under observation, say AIIMS doctors
Last year too, Manmohan Singh had received treatment at AIIMS after complaining of uneasiness. He served as India's Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014. Before becoming the Prime Minister, Singh held various important portfolios throughout his career.
Published on Oct 14, 2021 06:09 AM IST
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindusatn Times, New Delhi
Manmohan Singh condoles Oscar Fernandes’ death, writes to his wife
- Manmohan Singh remembered how popular Oscar Fernandes was amongst the common people, who elected him to the Lok Sabha as their representatives five times
Updated on Sep 13, 2021 08:51 PM IST
hindustantimes.com | Written by Ayshee Bhaduri | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Congress lost focus, wrote Pranab in memoir
In a wide ranging autobiography, the late Mukherjee — who passed away in 2020 — has documented his years as President, weaving in the personal and the political.
Updated on Jan 07, 2021 03:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Del | HT Correspondent
Rain accompanied with high velocity wind brings down mercury in Shimla, Manali
Tourist destinations near Himachal’s state capital such as Narkanda, Kufri got snow on Tuesday
Updated on Jan 06, 2021 12:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Shimla | HT Correspondent
UPA couldn’t bring in farm reforms due to pressure: Agri minister Tomar
“Many chief ministers had tried to implement the same farm laws that the Narendra Modi government had brought but could not implement them due to these external pressures,” Tomar said, according to the agency.
Updated on Dec 29, 2020 02:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Forces pressurised Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar not to implement farm sector reforms, says Union minister Tomar
Tomar stated that many Chief Ministers had tried to implement the same farm laws that the Narendra Modi government has formulated for agriculture sector reforms.
Published on Dec 28, 2020 02:59 PM IST
New Delhi | Asian News International | Posted by Deepali Sharma
Govt expedited reforms by Narasimha, says vice-president Naidu
Rao and then-finance minister Manmohan Singh in the early 1990s initiated the reforms that dismantled the so-called License Raj of approvals and red tape that stifled businesses for much of the first four decades of independence, and opened India up to foreign investment.
Updated on Dec 28, 2020 06:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
The Anna and kisan movements, writes Rajdeep Sardesai
The Anna movement had the support of the media and middle-class and a clear enemy. The farm protests lack all three elements
Published on Dec 17, 2020 09:34 PM IST
In memoir, Pranab blames Manmohan, Sonia for Cong’s defeat, says Modi govt’s first term autocratic
The Presidential Years is the fourth volume of Mukherjee’s memoirs and will be released in January 2021.
Updated on Dec 12, 2020 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Court stays order to disclose PM’s flight details but disagrees with IAF on 1 point
The Delhi high court was hearing a plea by the IAF against the CIC’s July 8 direction to provide certified copies of available and relevant Special Flight Returns-II to RTI applicant Commodore (retd) Lokesh K Batra.
Updated on Dec 11, 2020 01:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Richa Banka
Heavy snow forecast in Himachal Pradesh, rain in Punjab and Haryana on December 11, 12
Atal Tunnel closed for traffic as higher reaches get snow, rain for the second day on Thursday
Updated on Dec 10, 2020 11:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Shimla | HT Correspondent
Met predicts heavy snowfall in Himachal on December 12
State meteorological department director Manmohan Singh said snowfall and rainfall was also likely to take place in the higher and middle hills of the state on December 9
Updated on Dec 09, 2020 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times/Shimla | HT Correspondent, Shimla
Make inclusive changes in the agrarian sector
The impasse will end sooner or later, but will the problems that beset agriculture be solved?
Updated on Dec 07, 2020 01:13 AM IST
Shashi Shekhar
Attachments up to Rs 40k-crore remain pending as key tribunal stays headless
Worse still, it has only one member, out of a sanctioned strength of four members and a chairman. This member, GC Mishra, formerly a top bureaucrat in the law ministry is its acting chairman.
Updated on Nov 27, 2020 06:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Fresh snowfall in Kufri, Narkanda, NH 5 blocked
The weather will get clear from November 27
Updated on Nov 27, 2020 08:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times/Shimla | HT Correspondent, Shimla
Ahmed Patel’s demise irreparable loss to party: Ex-PM Manmohan Singh
Patel, who was critical since the last few days, was admitted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on November 15 after he developed complications.
Updated on Nov 25, 2020 03:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar
Ahmed Patel: Congress’ indispensable man, an emissary and an archetypal party person
A three-term Lok Sabha and five-time Rajya Sabha member, Patel never held a ministerial office. He was an archetypal party person, an apparatchik whose membership of the Congress’s core group fetched him a slot on the high table
Updated on Nov 25, 2020 02:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vinod Sharma
Great friend, irreplaceable comrade: Congress leaders remember Ahmed Patel
“In the shocking demise of Shri. Ahmed Patel ji, the Congress Party has lost one of its strongest pillars & the nation has lost a deeply dedicated leader. With a heavy heart we pay our profound condolences to his family & his followers at this time of grief,” the Congress party tweeted.
Updated on Nov 25, 2020 02:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Srivatsan K C
Congress’ new internal panels include old guard
The appointments come against the backdrop of rumblings within the Congress over the outcome of the assembly elections in Bihar, and by-polls to 58 seats across 11 states.
Updated on Nov 21, 2020 02:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Sonia Gandhi forms panels on economy, foreign affairs, national security; former PM to head all 3
Apart from Manmohan Singh, the committee on economic affairs will have former union ministers P Chidambaram, Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, who will also be its convenor, besides former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh
Updated on Nov 20, 2020 05:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent | Edited by Smriti Sinha
‘A Promised Land’: First volume of Barack Obama’s memoir to hit stands on November 17
The book, titled ‘A Promised Land’, mentions former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party president Sonia Gandhi.
Updated on Nov 16, 2020 09:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav
‘How much does he know about this nation?’: Sanjay Raut in response to Obama’s memoir
“A foreign politician can’t give such opinions on Indian political leaders; subsequent domestic political discourse on it is distasteful. We won’t say ‘Trump is mad’. How much does Obama know about this nation?” Raut said.
Updated on Nov 14, 2020 06:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh
What Barack Obama said about Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh in his memoir
The NYT review said in the memoir “we are told of the handsomeness of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but not the beauty of women, except for one or two instances, as in the case of Sonia Gandhi.”
Updated on Nov 13, 2020 09:17 AM IST
New York | Press Trust of India | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
‘Eager to impress...’: Barack Obama’s book on Rahul Gandhi
The observations, whether in direct quotes or paraphrased, are from the review that ostensibly quotes from the book, “A Promised Land”, which is set for public release next week.
Updated on Nov 13, 2020 08:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj
This is definitely not the 1991 moment for agriculture, writes Capt Amarinder Singh
Farm laws will destroy the agri-economy and ruin farmers. The Centre must pull back
Updated on Nov 02, 2020 07:04 PM IST
Captain Amarinder Singh
Two light intensity quakes occur in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur, Chamba
A quake of 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred at Bilaspur, while one of 2.7 intensity rattled Chamba for the second day
Published on Oct 24, 2020 03:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dharamshala | HT Correspondent
My life has been about reconciling contradictions: NK Singh
In an interview with HT, Singh examines his early socialisation in Bihar, the economic doctrines that governed India in the 1960s and 1970s and its subsequent evolution, the current political moment, and the structural challenges faced by India.
Updated on Oct 19, 2020 08:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Prashant Jha
Sachin Pilot, Ghulam Nabi Azad among Congress’ star campaigners for Bihar
The list of star campaigners also includes Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Updated on Oct 11, 2020 05:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi