Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Arjun Singh


Related Topics

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arjun Singh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Arjun Singh was accused of corruption in what was called by some the Churhat Lottery case in the 1980s, in which allegations, never proved, were levelled that he had helped set up a phony state lottery.
Arjun Singh once walked out of a meeting that was held to decide on the leader of the Congress legislative party following the party’s resounding victory in the 1993 assembly elections.
Arjun Singh’s detractors believed that his action was no more than symbolic, that it was an ingenious strategy to forcibly include the backward castes in the political agenda.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arjun-Singh   (1251 words)

  
 Arjun Singh's final innings
Arjun Singh used to be part of the coterie that has always existed around Congress presidents.
Arjun Singh emerged as a powerful leader when he was elected to the Congress Working Committee in Tirupati in 1992.
The only good thing Arjun singh has done in his entire life is to reverse the manipulations of history by M M Joshi.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/20spec.htm   (721 words)

  
 Arjun Singh's final innings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As alleged by the BJP, by taking on the RSS, Arjun Singh is targeting two birds with one stone. He is gathering the Left's support and at the same time consolidating his own position in the Congress.
Singh moved to the Centre in 1985 as commerce minister in Rajiv Gandhi's government.
Arjun Singh was Just trying to prove that, he was more ideologically sound in dealing with RSS than...
us.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/20spec.htm   (721 words)

  
 MOVIE: FARZ : HINDI BENGALI DVD VCD
Arjun Singh has only two years left for his retirement so he wants to lead a risk free life.,,Om Purvi is suffering from an acute fear because his earlier partner (Dara Singh) lost his life on duty just 2 days before retirement.
This fear is further accentuated by Arjun Singh's love for his family.,,Arjun Singh is against his daughter's marriage with Karan as he is not very keen to see his daughter as a young widow.
Despite Arjun Singh's protests, the headstrong streak in Kajal makes her defy her father and agree to depose against Sikander before the court of law.,,Sikander is arrested, but Gawa Firozi wants his brother out at any cost.
www.dvdvcdplaza.com /displaymovie.asp?rowid=403   (249 words)

  
 The Hindu : Lapierre has got it wrong: Arjun Singh
Arjun Singh, has termed the narration of certain events relating to him in the book It was five past midnight in Bhopal, as ``incorrect''.
Singh in the wake of latter's reported remarks that he would have been happy to meet him, he said, ``the story is written.
Singh's reported comment that it was ``untrue'' that he was not in the city at the time of the tragedy as alleged in the book, Mr.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/09/09/stories/0209000j.htm   (229 words)

  
 News Headings
Mr Arjun Singh, the AICC authorised spokesman on the political crisis, said the party was not averse to forming a coalition government and read out a clause from the Pachmarhi declaration to support such a move.
Mr Arjun Singh disagreed with a suggestion that the Congress had miscalculated by aligning with the AIADMK Supermo, Ms J. Jayalalitha, or the Congress had advised her against the withdrawal of support.
Mr Arjun Singh dismissed the claim of the ruling coalition that it has a mandate to rule, as a "fraud on the people of India." He recalled that the agenda for national governance was not the plank on which the BJP sought the support of the people in the 1998 elections.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99apr17/head4.htm   (884 words)

  
 RSS philosophy killed Gandhi: Arjun Singh
The RSS had threatened to sue Singh for his 'utterly uncalled for and irresponsible' allegation holding it responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
Singh, Pray tell us which philosophy killed Indira Gandhi on the fateful morning of 31st october 1984 and Rajiv Gandhi on 21st may...
Arjun Singh and his well-wishers want to usurp the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi in this politically clever fashion they are not going to...
in.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/10arjun.htm   (345 words)

  
 The Public Affairs Magazine- Newsinsight.net
Arjun Singh commenced a letter war against Narasimha Rao, the letters leaked to the press at the same time they were dispatched to the prime minister.
Arjun Singh is enormously capable, no question of that, but he cannot put a stopper to his ambitions.
Not just are Arjun Singh and Joshi friends, despite claiming to represent opposing ideologies, one hardline Hindutva and the other secular fundamentalism, they also employ remarkably similar infighting techniques, and their approaches are so distinct, they sometimes appear not to be part of any government.
www.indiareacts.com /archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=951&ctg=   (1738 words)

  
 Arjun Singh HRD Minister Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE)
Later, terming the BJP walkout itself as "political", Arjun Singh told reporters that the earlier governments, including NDA had not called a meeting of CABE for the last 10 years as "instead of harmonising different views on education in the society, they were trying to impose their ideology".
Arjun Singh has already incurred the wrath of the saffron educationists for torpedoeing MM Joshi’s moves reducing IIM fees, repainting saffronised text books, and recasting the NCERT.
Singh's bouncer to the RSS theory of Greater Bharat: "I'm not aware of any large state extending from Kashmir to Kanyakumari which existed prior to this period." The BJP ministers sat through this without protest.
www.dancewithshadows.com /arjun_singh.asp   (976 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
This is the first face-to-face interaction between the former cabinet colleagues since Singh quit the Rao government, marking a revolt against the latter?s leadership, on Christmas eve in 1994.
Manmohan Singh and Sonia dropped in to meet Rao, 83, after he was admitted to the hospital complaining of breathlessness.
Arjun Singh said Rao told him he was feeling much better.
www.telegraphindia.com /1041214/asp/nation/story_4126080.asp   (282 words)

  
 Arjun, a cut above the rest
Arjun will be the fourth golfer among the current players who have decided to expand their horizon beyond the Asian circuit.
If Arjun was unlucky to win the Honda Accord car, missing the sole ownership of the course record at the DGC was another aspect that will linger in his memory for long.
Arjun's winning aggregate of 17-under 271 also had a little story that the golfer would not like to remember for long.
www.tssonnet.com /tss2447/24470820.htm   (1343 words)

  
 Busybee Forever
Next, Arun Singh and Arjun Singh, who we will henceforth refer to as the two Singhs, are not exactly close friends, leave aside being buddies, but they are both friends of the prime minister.
But though Arjun Singh is now vice-President of the congress, he has also been the architect of the Punjab accord, so he occasionally disagrees with Arun Nehru’s suggestions for a hard line in Punjab.
Meanwhile, Arjun Singh has made it quite clear that he is a soldier of the Congress and do to his best ability whatever his prime minister asks him to do.
www.busybeeforever.com /viewart.asp?section=roundandabout&filename=politics917200440740.xml&subsec=politics   (458 words)

  
 Behind the scenes
Many Congress(I) insiders say that it was Arjun Singh who gave the feedback to Sonia Gandhi, which mad e her stake her claim to form a government.
Arjun Singh's role in messing up the efforts to form an alternative government after the fall of the Vajpayee Ministry had caused some Congress(I) allies to take a strong position against him.
However, neither Arjun Singh nor the other members of the group were able to wield much inf luence in the selection of candidates in Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, where second-time Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and Pradesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh respectively called the shots.
www.flonnet.com /fl1618/16180100.htm   (929 words)

  
 The India Club, Singapore » Talk by Hon’ble Mr.Arjun Singh- India’s Minister for Human Resource ...
Arjun Singh is now in his second term as India’s minister for Human Resource Development, a key portfolio that encompasses Education.
Arjun Singh was twice elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (then India’s largest state by area) in the 1980s, and served as Governor of Punjab at the height of the separatist insurgency; during this time, he was instrumental in negotiating the “Rajiv-Longowal pact” that was a precursor to the eventual end of the separatist movement.
Singh was vice president of the Congress party, India’s oldest and largest political party, in the 1980s and its Working President in the mid-1990s.
www.indiaclub.org.sg /index.php?p=24   (277 words)

  
 Organiser - Content
Arjun Singh has even come down to harassing those who played catalysts to erase colonial designs from the history books and saving a tender mind from learning lessons in social hatred and false images of communities.
Loan is not charity, Shri Arjun Singh, until this government announces a general amnesty in the name of social justice to pay back and risk the nation to bankruptcy.
Dr Manmohan Singh, in the emerging environment of casual and irresponsible political pettiness and vote-bank politics at the cost of national interests, cannot escape his duty to put a full stop to such anti-people tendencies.
www.organiser.org /dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=32&page=37   (801 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
New Delhi, Aug. 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may not be in favour of having committed ideologues in key positions in the government but he is against a witch-hunt, sources close to him said against the backdrop of Arjun Singh’s appeal to “cleanse” the system.
Manmohan Singh, the sources said, would rather have individuals of professional excellence and merit heading statutory bodies and academic institutions than those subscribing to the ideology of a particular colour, saffron or red.
The RSS today joined issue with Arjun Singh, threatening to sue him for his “utterly uncalled for and irresponsible” allegation that held the Sangh responsible for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040810/asp/nation/story_3606471.asp   (510 words)

  
 archive: Cong. rules out coalition Govt.
Arjun Singh indicated today that this was not an official deadline.
Mulayam Singh will ultimately come to the conclusion that the solidarity of secular parties should not be weakened, in the interest of the nation at this juncture,'' Mr.
Arjun Singh was nonplussed when he was asked why the Congress(I) had set its face against including other parties in a coalition government and was not prepared to ``make a sacrifice'' by supporting a Third Front-led government.
www.media-watch.org /articles/0499/405.html   (676 words)

  
 What's Arjun Singh up to?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There is a general belief that the move was taken by Arjun Singh in a bid to woo Muslim votes for the Congress.
Arjun Singh has been a disaster in the HRD ministry.
That, of course, is why Arjun Singh cynically made his empty gesture of reservation, without thinking of the larger consequences.
us.rediff.com /news/2005/jun/17flip.htm   (1083 words)

  
 The Pioneer > Columnists
But he was stunned by her bluntly telling him that he should talk to Arjun Singh instead.
During Tuesday's meeting at Arjun Singh's place, Lalu Yadav, who was accompanied by three Communist leader as well as Tariq Anwar of NCP, also held out a veiled threat that if his view was ignored, the Congress would need to worry about the UPA's future.
Arjun Singh responded saying the meeting was not intended to discuss the Union Government.
www.dailypioneer.com /columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=VYAS63%2Etxt&writer=VYAS&validit=yes   (996 words)

  
 Bollywood Best - hindi cinema movie reviews - Footpath - Aftab Shivdasani, Rahul Dev, Emraan, Bipasha Basu, Aparna ...
Since the needle of suspicion is turned on Arjun Singh, he is bundled into a Delhi-bound train by his friends.
12 years later, Arjun Singh is confronted by a honest cop who finally traces that the murderer of the union leader is staying in New Delhi.
If Arjun Singh refuses to accept the offer he would be sent to jail on the charge of murder and his friends Raghu and Shekhar would be shot dead in a fake encounter.
www.idlebrain.com /mumbai/reviews/mr-footpath.html   (1121 words)

  
 archive: Cong. denies bid to derail Vajpayee Govt.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Arjun Singh's press conference at the AICC headquarters this afternoon.
Arjun Singh was appropriately vague in his response.
Arjun Singh had called the press conference to announce the appointment of a committee by Mrs.
www.media-watch.org /articles/0399/404.html   (361 words)

  
 RSS sends legal notice to Arjun Singh
The RSS also took exception to a written statement issued by Singh after the organisation had threatened to sue him.
On Friday, the RSS had threatened to drag Singh in courts across the country for his allegations against it.
The conflict between Singh and the Sangh began with the row over rewriting textbooks.
www.ndtv.com /topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=RSS+sends+legal+notice+to+Arjun+Singh&id=15081   (288 words)

  
 RSS should be exposed: Arjun Singh - Sify.com
New Delhi: Undeterred by the RSS threats to sue him, HRD Minister Arjun Singh continued his tirade against the Sangh Parivar fountainhead saying if it was not exposed it would have far reaching consequences for the country.
Singh, who seconded the comprehensive resolution on political situation in the country at the one-day AICC session in New Delhi, dubbed BJP as a facet of the Sangh Parivar.
The Congress leader cited an example how the martyrdom of the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi was deleted from the Indian History by the BJP-led NDA government as they did not want to dub his killer Nathuram Godse as a Hindu hardliner.
www.sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13549507   (374 words)

  
 INDIA FIRST FOUNDATION
This is Arjun Singh's view of what spreads religious harmony and what spreads religious hate.
Arjun Singh brands himself as a secular icon precisely because he de-saffronises, that is, outlaws Rama.
Arjun Singh outlaws Rama and Krishna only because they are eternally part of the Indian consciousness.
www.indiafirstfoundation.org /articles/article2.htm   (820 words)

  
 The Congress(I) flip-flop
It was the Congress(I)'s refusal to settle for a coalition government that became a stumbling block in the formation of an alternative government.
The climbdown also militates against the stand taken by Arjun Singh and A.K. Antony that forming alliances does not help the long-term agenda of the party, which is restoring the organisation to its "past glory" at the national level.
Arjun Singh, who was labelled the chief of the 'gang of four' (which comprises, apart from him, former Minister M.L. Fotedar, Sonia Gandhi's private Secretary Vincent George and R.D. Pradhan) at 10 Janpath that controlled Sonia Gandhi's activities is castigated privately by senior leaders.
www.flonnet.com /fl1610/16100120.htm   (1222 words)

  
 Kalyan cites Arjun, alleges Pak role in Babri demolition - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Citing a statement by then HRD Minister Arjun Singh, counsel of the former chief minister B B Saksena told the Commission that from the information received by the Centre at that time some Pakistani infiltrators had made their way into Ayodhya to raze the building to ground.
He said that the then Kalyan Singh government had made arrangements for adequate security around the spot during the incident and that the then chief minister personally had instructed that the structure be protected at all costs.
Mr Kalyan Singh had also ordered the police repeatedly not to fire at the kar sevaks, Mr Saksena said, adding that the former chief minister did not have any direct or indirect role in the demolition or in the events leading to it.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/Jun302004/n8.asp   (616 words)

  
 Farz (New), Hindi, Movies/Videos|Drama, DVD
Arjun Singh has only two years left for his retirement so he wants to lead a risk free life.
Arjun Singh is against his daughter's marriage to Karan as he is not very keen to see his daughter as a young widow.
Despite Arjun Singhs protests the head strong streak in Kajal makes her defy her father and chooses to depose against Sikander before the court of law.
www.worldlanguage.com /Portuguese/Products/43542.htm   (452 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.