Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met his cabinet at his residence here, and an official said yoga guru Baba Ramdev's threatened hunger strike against corruption might be discussed.

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A day after stating that the Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India should not be brought under the ambit of the proposed Lokpal Bill, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday did a volte-face saying he

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and two other ministers met Baba Ramdev at the Delhi airport on Wednesday in a bid to persuade the yoga guru to call off his proposed fast from June 4 against corruption and black money stashed abroad, activists in the movement said.

Worried over Baba Ramdev’s threat to go on fast, the government on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of sending three senior ministers to receive the yoga guru at the airport here in a bid to persuade him not to go ahead with the protest.

Rejecting pleas by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday said he will begin his planned hunger strike against corruption and black money from Saturday.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government would hold the next round of talks with yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Friday to convince him to cancel his planned hunger strike for effective

Differences appeared to have cropped up in the civil society over the demand for inclusion of the Prime Minister and higher judiciary in the Lokpal Bill with Baba Ramdev opposing such a move.

Differences appeared to have cropped up in the civil society over the demand for inclusion of the Prime Minister and higher judiciary in the Lokpal Bill with Baba Ramdev opposing such a move.

The Prime Minister should be excluded from the purview of the proposed Lokpal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said on Tuesday. "It is a very complicated question whether the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India should be brought under Lokpal bill or not.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday went the extra mile to persuade yoga guru Ramdev not to go ahead with his hunger strike from June 4, promising him to find a ‘practical and pragmatic’ solution