Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth26 September 1932
CityPunjab, India
CountryIndia
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I foresee a very bright era for sports in our country.
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From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.
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For two years in a row we have upwards of 7 percent growth in our national income. This year we expect to repeat that performance. I am convinced that we will sustain this rate of growth perhaps even improve upon in the next years. This has the potential of transforming our economy in many ways. It is now possible as never before to visualize India without poverty, without disease and scourge,
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I am aware of the shortage of tents and inadequate medical facilities. We will do our best to organize these facilities for you,
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I am happy to announce that our government has cleared the purchase of 43 aircraft from Airbus.
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I believe there is a perception in Indian trade and industry circles that the European market is becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. As tariff barriers disintegrate, non-tariff barriers suddenly come up,
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I am sure Indian civil society will step forward and contribute to the relief and rehabilitation effort. I appeal to every concerned citizen of our Republic to donate generously to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund to help us help those in need
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But we must work together to make these borders irrelevant through people-to-people contacts, through greater trade, through discussions between the two sides of Jammu and Kashmir on mutual developmental issues. So, there are many possibilities,
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If we have to go back to UN Security Council resolutions, there is no point conducting this dialogue,
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I have extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan, our doors are open to everyone who wants to talk to me calmly,
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Positioned as we are, geographically and economically, India has a pivotal role in the region,
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On strategic issues we discussed the vital needs for energy security ... for India's need for atomic energy,
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So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.
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Shortage of electricity is still a major inconvenience. Electricity is an essential ingredient of economic development. We need to ensure that electricity generation grows rapidly and that power shortages are eliminated.