PM
discusses ways to tame inflation
New Delhi, January 11
A worried Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh today held a meeting with senior ministers and bureaucrats to find
ways to tame food inflation. The high-level meeting, however, ended
inconclusively. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Agriculture Minister
Sharad Pawar, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Cabinet Secretary KM
Chandrasekhar, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh
Ahluwalia and Chief Economic Adviser to the Finance Ministry Kaushik
Basu attended the two-hour meeting at the Prime Minister’s 7, Race
Course Road residence.
In
Delhi, rebel Jagan takes on Congress
Says Andhra Pradesh Govt at his
mercy, flays PM
New Delhi, January 11
The Congress watched with bated
breath as ex-Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy demonstrated his political clout
to his former party with an impressive crowd of supporters cheering him
at Jantar Mantar as he sat on a day-long fast demanding scrapping of the
Krishna Water Tribunal award, terming it as anti-Andhra farmers.
Former Congress MP Jaganmohan Reddy along with supporters during a protest dharna against Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal verdict at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Tuesday.
A Tribune photograph
Threat
to Indian mission in Kabul real: Krishna
New Delhi, January 11
Describing the situation in
Afghanistan as ‘very disturbing’, the External Affairs Minister S M
Krishna today said the threats of fresh terror attacks on the Indian
Embassy in the capital city of Kabul were real. Interacting with
visiting journalists from Eastern Europe, Krishna, who has just returned
from a visit to Kabul, said “I did talk about the threat to our
embassy and consular offices recently. The threats are real and some of
the attacks were successful, some others were thwarted. We have lost
many precious lives in Kabul because of these assaults.”
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