Dispur, Apr 23 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur on Thursday cast their votes here during the second phase of the general elections.

Authorities beefed up security at Booth number 156 located at the Dispur Government Higher Secondary School at Sarumatoria, where Dr. Singh and his wife reached to cast their votes.

Singh is officially a voter from Guwahati.

A powerful bomb blast in a crowded parking area killed four people in Guwahati in the first week of April, ahead of Singh''s visit to the state.

New Delhi, Apr. 21: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L. K. Advani on Tuesday disagreed with the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s view that the secular-communal divide is a very important drive and that he did not see India having any future except by staying with secular values.

Advani charged the Prime Minister and the Congress party with advocating a brand of pseudo-secularism to purchase votes, and added that the divide between secularism and communalism has existed since time Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of the country (1947-64).

Latur (Maharashtra), Apr 21: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday assured that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is dedicated towards the fight against terrorism and the repetition of the Mumbai-style terror attacks would be prevented at all costs.

Addressing his first election rally in Maharashtra, Singh said, "We want to avoid recurrence of 26/11 type attack at any cost... we also want that no religion or community is subjected to unnecessary harassment on the issue."

New Delhi, Apr 21: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for inclusive growth, which will ensure that the process of social and economic change would reach out to the marginalized sections of the population.

With an aim to reach out to millions of marginalised farmers left out of India''s booming economy, Dr. Singh''s government announced, in the last budget for the year ended March 2009, a 15 billion dollars loan waiver for small farmers who had borrowed from banks.

New Delhi  - The Indian economy should regain its annual growth rate of 8 to 9 per cent as the world economy begins to recover from September, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.

Despite three stimulus packages announced by the government, Asia's third largest economy grew by only 5.3 per cent in three months ending December 31, the slowest pace in over five years, against 8.9 per cent in the corresponding period a year ago.

Guwahati, Lucknow, Bhopal, Apr 19 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh respectively today.

During her visit, Sonia Gandhi will address election meetings at Allahabad, Faizabad and Lucknow.

Rahul is scheduled to address a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district, which will go to poll on April 23. .

Panna district comes under Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat.