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NEW DELHI: Prime ministerial lunches are rarely fun affairs. People sort of get on with it, and then get on with their lives. Not on Friday. Early in the day, former US president George Bush, on a pleasure trip to India, announced cheerily, “I’m off to have lunch with my old pal.” He sauntered across to the home of his pal, one Manmohan Singh, who famously abandoned his starchy mien to declare this nation’s “deep love” for Bush, then stood stoically through the vicious jokes hurled at him. But for all those present at the “friendly” lunch this afternoon, Bush...

New Delhi, November 4: Congratulating President George W Bush on his reelection, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said India and the US must deny any encouragement to religious extremism and terrorism and resolve to eliminate them as an acceptable instrument of state policy. In a letter to Bush, he pledged India's full support to combat terrorism and proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to strengthen international peace and security. Manmohan Singh also underlined the need for charting out an economic roadmap that would be an integral element of broader relationship between the two countries. One major goal of...

US President George W. Bush (right) with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 22 September 2004 1307 hrs Singh-Musharraf summit could speed up South Asian peace process NEW DELHI : The first summit between India's new prime minister and Pakistan's president could give an impetus to the nations' slow-moving peace process but a solution on Kashmir remains distant, analysts say. Manmohan Singh, who became prime minister in May after his left-leaning coalition's shock election victory, is to meet President Pervez Musharraf Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General...

Sonia makes her choice: It's Manmohan NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi has made her choice. She has named Manmohan Singh to be the next Prime Minister. It is believed the draft anointing Manmohan Singh as new Congress Parliamentary Party leader has already been sent to MPs. The MPs, according to reports, will sign the draft and there will be no separate CPP meet. The MPs will meet state-wise in the presence of AICC leaders in charge of states, party sources said.