Reaching out to sulking NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hailed him as a 'very valued colleague' and said his knowledge, wisdom and experience are a 'great asset' to

Reaching out to sulking NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today hailed him as a "very valued colleague" and said his knowledge, wisdom and experience are a "great asset" to his government.

Congress on Friday downplayed the standoff with its ally NCP maintaining that its chief Sharad Pawar is a senior and respectable leader of UPA, and all the issues with the party will be solved throug

NCP has decided to pull out of the UPA government and support it from outside in protest against the way the party was treated by Congress, creating fresh trouble for the ruling coalition.

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NCP ministers on Thursday boycotted the meeting of Union Cabinet here to show their unhappiness over party leader Sharad Pawar not being given the number two position in the government.

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India has not reached the drought situation yet, although it faces the challenge of maintaining record foodgrains production due to weak monsoons this year, agriculture minster Sharad Pawar said here on Monday.

Charging Mr P.A. Sangma with violating decency, decorum and dignity in the presidential elections, the NCP on Thursday appealed to the BJP, the BJD and the AIADMK to withdraw their support from him.

Poor rains in India's key pulse-producing southern and western states have affected sowing and could trim output in the 2012-13 year that began on July 1, the agriculture minister said on Friday.

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Sharad Pawar is at the receiving end of late Congress veteran Arjun Singh who has accused him of being flip-flop, unreliable and fickle and wondered when the ‘final rupture’ would take place between h

Apprehending the possibility of fresh bids to drag his name into the spectrum allocation scam, NCP chief and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Monday recused himself from heading the empowered grou