Intentar ORO - Gratis

Statesman's Two Stints in Top Office

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

|

December 28, 2024

An unlikely leader, Manmohan Singh rose to the highest echelons of Indian politics

2004: First term as PM, from HT's front page Manmohan Singh was nominated leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) on Wednesday. Later, he went to Rashtrapati Bhavan and was invited to form the government. He is likely to be sworn in as Prime Minister on Saturday.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to go to Sriperumbudur on Friday, the anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination and return in time for the ceremony.

Sonia will be the chairperson of the CPP. Its constitution was amended at Wednesday's meeting making provisions for a chairperson to be elected by all MPs. Following the amendment, Sonia was unanimously elected chairperson and a resolution was passed authorising her to name the leaders of the two Houses and other office-bearers. Sonia then made a statement committing herself to the party and asking her party men to give their unstinting support to Manmohan Singh. "I am not going anywhere. I am still very much in politics," she said.

MÁS HISTORIAS DE Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Gurmeet Choudhary

Actor, martial artist, @GuruChoudhary

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

VIDEO SHOWING BJP LEADER'S SON ASSAULTING TOLL STAFF GOES VIRAL

CCTV footage, purportedly showing a BJP leader's son and his friends assaulting and abusing a staffer at a toll booth on the Vijayapura-Kalaburagi highway after being asked to pay the toll, went viral on Friday.

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Tributes and tears mark Zubeen’s curtain call

{ LAST FILM RELEASED

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

EX-INDIA CAPTAIN AZHARUDDIN JOINS REVANTH REDDY CABINET IN T'GANA

Congress leader and former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin on Friday was sworn in as a minister in the Telangana cabinet headed by chief minister A Revanth Reddy.

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Indian exporters secure new markets to offset US tariff hit

Indian gem and jewellery, textile and marine exporters have successfully diversified into new markets across Asia, Europe and Latin America, offsetting the impact of punitive US tariffs that have dampened demand from their traditional largest buyer, trade data shows.

time to read

2 mins

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Fork in the road

Doesn't everything taste better when you are on the road? Every time I come back from a trip, I spend a few days caressing my memories. Because I eat for a living, many of the memories are about food.

time to read

3 mins

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

Jemi, Harman & new realities

There are people I know personally, who on Friday morning found their eyes welling up.

time to read

3 mins

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

1,364 get MHA honour for special operations

The Union home ministry on Friday announced the names of at least 1,364 police personnel from different security forces and agencies, who have been awarded the Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak for conducting special operations.

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

FBI director: 'Potential terrorist attack' thwarted

WASHINGTON: FBI director Kash Patel said on Friday that the agency had thwarted a \"potential terrorist attack\" planned in the northern state of Michigan over Halloween weekend.

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

China sends youngest astronaut, mice on its space station mission

A new crew took off for China's space station on Friday, including the country's youngest ever astronaut and four lab mice.

time to read

1 min

November 01, 2025

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size