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'Weak PM', BJP's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani's main campaign plank in May, 2009, has a rather quirk irony. The blitzkrieg had actually come at a time when Manmohan Singh was at his powerful best and at the peak of his glory.

The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the USA has found coverage in the media more for its glitter than substance. President Obama in fact, seems to have been reticent unlike his expensive style in the exposition on policy issues and was content to give only bald assurances to set at rest misgivings of the ruling elite and media in India on his visit to China. What he emphasised was that India-US relationship developed under the regime of President Bush has remained unchanged. This too satisfied Mr. Manmohan Singh fully.

KOLKATA: Back to the basics: that was the message from CPI(M) Secretary Prakash Karat to his beleaguered West Bengal CPI(M) during the party's recent state committee meeting in Kolkata.

New York: Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Nicolas Cage, whose action roles have included both a contract killer and a federal anti-terrorist agent, stepped into the world of real crime tonight when he was named Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

New York: The United Nations agency entrusted with accelerating sustainable industrial development in poorer states pledged to help the world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), 33 of them in Africa, to withstand global financial crisis.

New York: Although tobacco use is not as prevalent in Africa as it is in other regions, that will change unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations health agency warned as it announced a new tobacco control effort for the continent.