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Jitendra Singh vs Farooq Abdullah over 'duplicity stand' on Pak
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI): A war of words erupted between Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, after Singh said that Kashmir-based politicians have a tendency to "speak in the languag
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Rahul questions PM Modi's silence on Rafale negotiations row
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being silent on the Defence Ministry note which was cited by the newspaper to allege that the PMO was holding “parallel negotiations” with the French side, say
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Rafale issue: Sitharaman terms news item ‘distorted’, wonders if doubts ar
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, Feb 8 (ANI) A combative Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday termed as “incomplete” and “distorted” the news item published by a newspaper about “parallel negotiations” by the PMO in the Rafale fighter deal and wondered whether &ldqu
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PMO never intervened in Rafale negotiations, Defence Ministry note cited t
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India) Feb 8 (ANI): India’s chief negotiator for the Rafale fighter deal Air Marshal (retd) SBP Sinha on Friday asserted that the PMO had never intervened in the negotiations and alleged that a Defence Ministry note has been cited by a newspaper to “malign the excel
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PMO has something to hide, says former Defence Minister AK Antony
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India) Feb 8 (ANI): In the wake of the latest media report on the Rafale deal, veteran Congress leader and former Defence Minister A K Antony on Friday questioned whether the PMO had any "special interest" to push the contract.
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Defence Minister counters Rahul Gandhi's charges on Rafale deal in LS, Opp
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi, Feb 8 (ANI) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday rejected Congress President Rahul Gandhi's allegation based on a media report that claimed the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) ran parallel negotiations with France on the multi-billion Rafale fighter jet deal.
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Manohar Parrikar dismissed MoD’s fear that negotiations over Rafale were w
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Government on Friday dismissed a media report that claimed that Defence Ministry officials had raised concerns over the direct involvement of Prime Minister’s Office in the Rafale deal and said that the report failed to publish response of the former
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Defence Ministry had not objected to pricing part in Rafale deal, says for
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 8 (ANI): The Defence Ministry had given a dissent note to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) over sovereign guarantee aspect of the negotiations in the Rafale fighter deal but it had nothing to do with pricing issue, the then Defence Secretary G. Mohan Kumar sa
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Kisan Congress to give Rs 17 DD to PMO as a mark of taunt
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): All India Kisan Congress (AIKC) will give a demand draft (DD) of Rs 17 to the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PMO) on Tuesday, apparently to mock the Centre’s scheme to give Rs 6,000 annually to marginal farmers as announced in the interim Budget.
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JNUSU terms sedition, criminal conspiracy and rioting charges against Kanh
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Jan 14 (ANI): The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) has termed the charge sheeting of Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case as "a clear case of vendetta" allegedly carried out at the "well-planned instruction from the Prime Minister's Office (
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Urjit Patel spoke of resignation for months; Institutions like CBI paramou
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 1 (ANI): Urjit Patel stepped down as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor because of personal reasons and had been telling the Prime Minister for some time about his decision to resign, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
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Pune: PMO inquiry finds no alien-like activity
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra), [India], Dec 29 (ANI): No alien activity was suspected after PMO office ordered an immediate inquiry on the basis of a mail that alien-like elements were found near the house of the man who raised the issue.
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