India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) surrounded by his bodyguards, addresses the nation from a bullet-proof enclosure at the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi August 15, 2009. Returning to a high growth rate is the greatest challenge facing India, with a weak monsoon making the task harder, but the economy may improve by year-end, Singh said in his Independence Day speech. Reuters Pictures 3 months ago

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) surrounded by his bodyguards, addresses the nation from a bullet-proof enclosure at the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi August 15, 2009. Returning to a high growth rate is the greatest challenge facing India, with a weak monsoon making the task harder, but the economy may improve by year-end, Singh said in his Independence Day speech.

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  2. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, checks the time as Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, and Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  3. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, listen as Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, unseen, speaks at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  4. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  5. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives for a press conference in Mumbai on October 11, 2009. India hinted that a suicide attack on its embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul last week was staged by Pakistani militants who oppose its support of President Hamid Karzai's government. Singh, campaigning in Mumbai ahead of local elections, told reporters October 11 that 'Pakistan should realise the great harm that patronisation of terrorist groups has done to South Asia.'
  6. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) shakes hands with Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (2nd R) as Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot (L) and Cairn India chief executive officer Rahul Dhir (R) looks on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  7. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) turns the wheel to open a valve, allowing the first oil to flow from a new oil field, as Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (R), Cairn India chief executive officer Rahul Dhir (2nd R, partially obscured), Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot (2nd L) and Indian Petroleum Minister Murali Deora (L) look on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  8. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) turns the wheel to open a valve, allowing the first oil to flow from a new oil field, as Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (R) looks on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  9. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets the members of the media at the end of his news conference in Srinagar October 29, 2009. Singh reached out to Kashmiri separatists on Wednesday, offering to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency in the Himalayan region. Singh addressed a news conference on Thursday at the end of his two-day official visit to the troubled Kashmir region.
  10. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (seated) addresses a news conference in Srinagar October 29, 2009. Singh reached out to Kashmiri separatists on Wednesday, offering to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency in the Himalayan region. Singh addressed a news conference on Thursday at the end of his two-day official visit to the troubled Kashmir region.
  11. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets the members of the media at the end of his news conference in Srinagar October 29, 2009. Singh reached out to Kashmiri separatists on Wednesday, offering to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency in the Himalayan region. Singh addressed a news conference on Wednesday at the end of his two-day official visit to the troubled Kashmir region.
  12. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh listens as Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, unseen, speaks at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  13. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a news conference in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad October 9, 2009. The Indian economy is likely to grow between 6.3 and 6.5 percent in the fiscal year to March 2010, Singh said on Friday.
  14. Indian Prime Minister Manmoha Singh delivers a speech during the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 2009 in New Delhi on September 29, 2009. India's prime minister vowed that a massive increase in nuclear power generation over the next four decades would allow the booming country to reduce its impact on global warming. Manmohan Singh told an international atomic conference in New Delhi that the civilian nuclear supply agreement he signed with the United States last year had opened an era for safer, cleaner energy production.
  15. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (4th L) turns the wheel to open a valve, allowing the first oil to flow from a new oil field, as Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (R), Congress Party Member of Parliament for Ajmer Sachin Pilot (L), Indian Petroleum Minister Murali Deora (2nd L), and Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot (3rd L) look on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  16. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh waves during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'

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