Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday arrived in Sikkim on a daylong visit to assess and review the damage caused by the September 18 earthquake. Singh made an aerial survey of the worst-affected north Sikkim areas.

I was in a fun pow-wow session with Wasim Akram at the India International Sports Summit in Mumbai on Saturday evening when an sms arrived informing that the release of Shoaib Akhtar’s autobiography, Controversially Yours, at the Cricket Club of India on Sunday had been called off.
Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar was to officially release the book and I was to engage Shoaib thereafter in a Q&A based on the autobiography and beyond.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday maintained that he will speak, if necessary, on the finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation issue only after talking to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.

Gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border from Algeria and attacked revolutionary forces in a town near the frontier, killing six people, officials said on Sunday.

Pakistan will not take military action against the Haqqani network despite growing US pressure, even as the country's top military commanders have agreed on the need to de-escalate the situation, according to media reports on Monday.

Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat on Monday steered himself clear of the controversies surrounding illegal mining activities in the coastal state claiming that he himself was a crusader against the unlawful activity.

Last-minute talks and the threat of a US veto have failed to divert Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas from his historic quest to seek state membership at the United Nations on Friday.

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who is currently in New York for the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), has condoled the death of former cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India will strike its own course. It will not be cowed down by the criticism over its handling of the tight scheduling that was thought to be the principal cause of the disastrous tour of England. Should it be such a bad thing if the board does not wish to be paralysed by analysis at a moment when everything seems dark and dank?

Union home minister P. Chidambaram called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed with him the issue of a finance ministry note on allocation of 2G spectrum which appeared to raise questions on his role.