Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Kumar Mukherjeeis the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012. In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party's top troubleshooter...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1935
CityMirati, India
CountryIndia
Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.
The time frame for consular services would be made available within three months,
Russia is a perfect partner in this direction.
Every political party has the right to demonstrate, but at the same time I have requested the state government to provide requisite security,
We have agreed. They (Pakistan) have agreed to withdraw troops from the present positions. There is no two opinion about it, both sides have agreed
The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.
Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,
There is prima facie evidence of violation of clauses relating to use of undue influence and agents/agency commission, as contained in the contracts of Anti-Material Rifles (AMR) signed in 2002,
There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.
We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.
We are keeping a close watch as Nepal is of vital interest to India.
Trading would definitely benefit people on both sides of the border and this could be termed as a strategic partnership,