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Chinese premier arrives in New Delhi for official visit: Xinhua

Kyodo News InternationalMay 19, 2013 10:00
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India on Sunday on the first leg of a four-nation tour that will also take him to Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany. During his stay, Li will meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee among other leaders, and deliver a speech on China-India ties, Xinhua said. The two sides are expected to sign several bilateral agreements and discuss investment, trade and regional security.

India rail minister quits in cash-for-job scandal

Agence France-PresseMay 10, 2013 12:29
India's railways minister resigned on Friday following accusations his nephew took $160,000 in a bribe from an official in return for a plum post in the state-run network. The exit of Railways Minister Pawan Bansal came as the future of the country's law minister, Ashwani Kumar, hung in the balance over a separate corruption scandal. The resignation of Bansal is the latest setback to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scandal-tainted Congress administration, which the opposition has condemned as the "most corrupt" since independence.

Indian's Singh to visit Japan in late May

Kyodo News InternationalMay 3, 2013 09:18
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Japan on May 27 for a three-day official visit, Indian government sources said Friday. Speaking to Kyodo News in New Delhi, the sources said that Singh would be accompanied by a high-level delegation including National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai.

India PM demands 'justice' from Pakistan over attack on spy

Agence France-PresseMay 2, 2013 00:00
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanded "justice" from Pakistan on Thursday following the overnight death of a jailed Indian spy who was attacked by inmates at a prison in Lahore last week. "The criminals responsible for the barbaric and murderous attack on Sarabjit Singh must be brought to justice," the Indian premier said on his official Twitter page. amu/co/jms

Architect of India's new anti-rape law Verma dies

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 01:30
The architect of India's tough new anti-rape law, former chief justice Jagdish Sharan Verma, has died only a month after the legislation was approved by parliament, officials said Tuesday. The 80-year-old Verma died on Monday in a hospital just outside the capital New Delhi as a result of multiple organ failure, doctors said. The judge was appointed as the chairman of a special panel last December with a brief to recommend changes to existing laws on sexual violence following the deadly gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi.

Merkel and Singh meet to bolster German-India economic ties

April 11, 2013 05:45
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a joint cabinet session Thursday as the European export power and the Asian population giant seek to boost economic ties. While Germany, amid the eurozone crisis, wants to broaden trade and investment links with large emerging markets, India is seeking German technology and expertise in areas such as renewable energies and education.

India PM urges industrialists to 'keep faith' in economy

April 3, 2013 07:15
India's premier on Wednesday said the country's economy could return to high growth rates as he urged the nation's top industrialists to "keep the faith". Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised the Confederation of Indian Industry more economic reforms on top of earlier steps to open up sectors including retail and aviation to foreign investment and ease India's infamous red tape. The Congress-led government is accelerating implementation of long-stalled power, road, railway and other infrastructure projects to remove stumbling blocks to growth, Singh said.

Indian PM acknowledges new threat to coalition

March 29, 2013 02:15
India's prime minister has acknowledged his teetering coalition could be further undermined by the pullout of another ally, while insisting it will not fall before polls due next year. Speaking on his way back from a summit in South Africa, Manmohan Singh said he could not rule out the possibility of the Samajwadi Party (SP) quitting the coalition in what would be the third such move in less than six months.

India government says still able to pass reforms but silent on early poll

March 20, 2013 02:00
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government said on Wednesday it was still able to pass reform legislation in parliament, a day after its biggest ally abruptly quit the ruling coalition, but ministers did not answer questions on whether it would call a snap election. The withdrawal of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has rattled markets, who are worried that it has left Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unable to pass reforms needed to turn around the country's worst economic slowdown in a decade.

India eyes further easing FDI caps in growth push

March 18, 2013 16:46
India may further ease foreign direct investment caps to spur greater inflow of funds from abroad and promote growth in its sharply slowing economy, the finance minister said on Monday. The Congress-led government last September reduced limits on FDI in various sectors from retail to aviation as part of a series of economic reforms. "Many (more) caps can be removed or certainly relaxed.... Some of these caps are completely irrelevant," Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said, according to the Press Trust of India.
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