Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and the ruling United Progressive Alliance leaders Pranab Mukherjee, center and Sharad Pawar, left, wait for the swearing-in-ceremony to begin in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 22, 2009. Indian President Pratibha Patil, dressed in an elaborate white green and gold sari, administered the oath of office to Singh and his core Cabinet in a formal ceremony in New Delhi's imposing red-stone presidential palace. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and the ruling United Progressive Alliance leaders Pranab Mukherjee, center and Sharad Pawar, left, wait for the swearing-in-ceremony to begin in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 22, 2009. Indian President Pratibha Patil, dressed in an elaborate white green and gold sari, administered the oath of office to Singh and his core Cabinet in a formal ceremony in New Delhi's imposing red-stone presidential palace.

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.'
  5. 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.'
  6. 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.'
  7. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, left, and Chinese Central Banker Zhou Xiaochuan share a joke as they arrive for the evening dinner at an hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland as part of the G20 Finance Ministers and Bank Governors Meeting, Friday Nov. 6, 2009.
  8. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee (L) presents a 'Coin of Bhabha', the founder of the country's nuclear programme, to Director General, International Atomic Enery Mohamed Elbaradei (R) as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) looks on at 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.
  9. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center left, interacts with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed Elbaradei, center right, as Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, left, looks on during an international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.
  10. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, left, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed Elbaradei attend an international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.
  11. A man talks on a mobile phone in front of advisements of Bharti Airtel in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri September 23, 2009. India welcomes a tie-up between Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN, but there were some legal issues that needed to be looked at, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.
  12. LONDON - SEPTEMBER 5: (L-R front) Elena Salgado, Spain's finance minister, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's central bank, Mehmet Simsek, Turkey's finance minister, Martin Redrado, governor of the Central Bank of Argentina, Agustin Carstens, Mexico's minister of finance, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's finance minister, Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, Alistair Darling, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, India's finance minister, Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, Mario Draghi, governor of the bank of Italy, Axel Weber, president of Deutsche Bundesbank, Ibrahim al-Assaf, finance minister of Saudi Arabia, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's finance minister, pose for a group picture during the G20 finance Minister's summit, at the Treasury in Westminster on September 5, 2009 in London, England. British PM Gordon Brown has warned against withdrawing support for the global economy too soon, stating it could undermine tentative recovery signs, during a G20 meeting. Finance ministers are in London for a two-day meeting to map out rules to prevent a repeat of the crisis that brought the financial system to the brink of collapse.
  13. Labourers gather harvested rice in a field on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad November 4, 2009. Indian state trading companies will import rice only on commercial terms, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday at the annual Economic Editors Conference.
  14. A labourer winnows rice next to a paddy field on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad November 4, 2009. Indian state trading companies will import rice only on commercial terms, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday at the annual Economic Editors Conference.

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