Kochi, Apr 11 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday condemned the Left for not cooperating with the Central Government during negotiations for the crucial nuclear deal with the US.

Addressing his first election rally here after recovering from a heart bypass surgery, Dr. Singh said, "When our government started the nuclear deal negotiations with the US to end India''s nuclear isolation and to provide the much-needed energy for development, the Left opposed and walked out of our government. Time will prove the wisdom of our decision."

New Delhi, Apr. 11: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit Kerala on a daylong election campaign today.

“After addressing an election rally in Kochi, Dr. Singh will arrive here to address a public meeting at 3 pm,” DCC President K C Abu told reporters in Kozhikode.

Union ministers A K Antony and Vayalar Ravi besides Opposition Leader in the state assembly Oommen Chandy and KPCC President Ramesh Chennithala would also be present, he added.

On Friday, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi made a brief electioneering tour of the state.

New Delhi - As the decibel level rises in the run-up to India's general elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his sharpest reaction to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani's charge that he was a weak premier, said Friday that he should be judged by his actions and not his speech. "One cannot be judged strong or weak by merely talking loudly," Singh told journalists in Delhi.

Islamabad, Apr. 10 : The Pakistan Presidency has launched a new website of the President Asif Ali Zardari, The Daily Times reported.

The website, www. president. gov. pk has been launched on a trial basis, and more features would be included after ascertaining public response to it.

The website contains important email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, press releases and news updates also

Kozhikode, Apr 9 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Kerala for a day-long election campaign on April 11.

Talking to reporters here, District Congress Committee (DCC) President K C Abu revealed that after addressing an election rally in Kochi, Singh would visit Kozhikode to address a public meeting there at 3 p. m.

He further informed that Union Defence Minister A K Antony, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Ramesh Chennithala would be present.

New Delhi - Manmohan Singh became India's first Sikh prime minister in 2004 when Indian National Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi stunned her supporters by refusing the post and nominated instead her most trusted lieutenant.

A former academic and bureaucrat, Singh, 76, headed a coalition government for five years and is the ruling United Progressive Alliance's prime ministerial candidate in this year's elections.