Indian President Pratibha Patil (L) administers the oath of office to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) at the presidential palace in New Delhi May 22, 2009. Singh was sworn-in on Friday for a second five-year term with a host of old-guard ministers at a time of economic downturn and fraught ties with Pakistan. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

Indian President Pratibha Patil (L) administers the oath of office to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) at the presidential palace in New Delhi May 22, 2009. Singh was sworn-in on Friday for a second five-year term with a host of old-guard ministers at a time of economic downturn and fraught ties with Pakistan.

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  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.
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  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.'
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  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 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.'
  8. 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.
  9. LONDON - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II, left, and India's President Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, second from left, arrive to launch launch of the XIX Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games outside Buckingham Palace October 29, 2009 in London. The Indian President, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  10. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (R) and the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, enter Buckingham Palace prior to the Indian President's departure on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  11. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (L) bids farewell to the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil (C) and Indian dignitaries, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  12. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (R) bids farewell to the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  13. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (R) bids farewell to the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil (L) and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat (C), in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  14. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (R) bids farewell to the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil (not pictured), in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  15. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Queen Elizabeth II (R) bids farewell to the President of the Republic of India, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on October 29, 2009 in London, England. The Indian President and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.
  16. LONDON - OCTOBER 29: Dancers perform during the the launch of the XIX Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay for Delhi 2010 outside Buckingham Palace October 29, 2009 in London. The Indian President, Prathibha Devi Singh Patil, and her husband, Dr Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, are concluding their three-day state visit to the UK during which they have stayed in Windsor Castle.

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