New Delhi, July 24 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met President Pratibha Patil and briefed her about the special session in the Lok Sabha.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said the meeting lasted 25 minutes during which the President was informed about the deliberations of Lok Sabha''s special session among other issues. The session ended on Tuesday.
New Delhi, July 24 : CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has said that it was strange that after four years of Left support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has alleged that they wanted him to behave like a “bonded slave”.
“The Prime Minister has accused the Left parties as wanting to treat him as a bonded slave. Strange that it took him over four years of being the PM on the strength of the support of the Left parties to hurl such accusations,” Yechury said in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of People Democracy.
New Delhi, July 24 : The Samajwadi Party chose to be diplomatic about joining the UPA Government after helping it to win the confidence motion in the Parliament.
SP general secretary Amar Singh said he is not the right person to answer the question whether the party would participate in the government.
“It is not possible to answer this question now but we are not interested in joining the government,” he added.
New Delhi, July 24 : Inflation rate dipped to 11.89-per cent for the week ended July 12. The inflation has softened somewhat with prices of many essential items either declining or remaining static.
The figure for the week ended July 12 is quite in line with the rate of inflation for the week ended July 5, that stood at 11.91 per cent, very marginally higher than the rate of
11.89 per cent reported a fortnight ago.
New Delhi, July 24 : The Union Home Ministry today in detail reviewed the situation in Assam.
At a high level meeting taken by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta here today, the security situation in Assam was reviewed in detail.
The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary and DGP of Assam, Special Secretary (IS) in Ministry of Home Affairs, senior officers of the CRPF and BSF and representatives of the Ministry of Defence.
The meeting took stock of the situation, arising out of the unilateral declaration of ceasefire by some ULFA cadres.