The last rites were performed in the presence of the President, V-P & PM, among other top leaders & foreign dignitaries including King of Bhutan & Mauritius foreign minister.
Cremation, other formalities can happen in meantime because trust has to be formed & space allocated, says govt. This comes after Kharge wrote to Modi with formal request.
Manmohan Singh could have done a lot of things. But he was hamstrung. He had to seek the approval of the Gandhis to even drop or shift a minister of state.
BBC praises his foreign policy as pragmatic, while The Washington Post notes how during his tenure, India and Pakistan came close to negotiating a 'historic deal' over Kashmir.
After he was no longer PM, I would visit Dr MMS often and he would in his soft-spoken way urge me to suggest to the new govt to undertake more reforms. He was still thinking deeply of India’s economic future.
According to Congress sources, Singh’s daughter will arrive after midnight on Friday, & that the ‘last darshan’ would be scheduled for Saturday between 8:00 and 10:00 am.
The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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