Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday told President Mahinda Rajapaksa to ensure safety and welfare of ethnic Tamils as he met the Sri Lankan leader for the first time since the recent uproar over their condition in the island nation.

Calling the current global financial crisis “abnormal”, and admitting that it had impacted the Indian economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked India Inc to refrain from “knee-jerk” reactions like lay-offs.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said the country's growth and the financial system would be protected from the fallout of what he termed as an “unprecedented crisis” and “abnormal situation” in the global economy.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rapped the Maharashtra government on the violence in Mumbai against non-Maharashtrians and conveyed the "sense of the cabinet" on the need to control this.

The Left parties on Sunday virtually rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's desire to work with them in future and asked him to reverse his government's economic policies.