Ahmedabad, July 28 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will arrive here today to have an on-the-spot-assessment of the situation after the city was rocked by serial blasts on Saturday.

The duo, who will also be accompanied by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, will meet injured admitted in different hospitals.

The injured are undergoing treatment in Civil Hospital, LG Hospital and Vadilal Sarabhai Hospitals.

New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W Bush have discussed the next steps to be taken towards the completion of a India-US civilian nuclear agreement, media reports said Friday.

The two leaders spoke by telephone on Thursday night in a conversation that also covered issues related to world trade talks, the Hindu newspaper reported.

New Delhi, July 25 : US President George W Bush had a telephonic talk with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh last night, and expressed a desire to quickly move forward on Indo-US nuclear deal. Manmohan is also learnt to have responded with the same wish.

In a statement, US National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said, "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the US-India civil nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible."

New Delhi, July 24 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met President Pratibha Patil and briefed her about the special session in the Lok Sabha.

A Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said the meeting lasted 25 minutes during which the President was informed about the deliberations of Lok Sabha''s special session among other issues. The session ended on Tuesday.

New Delhi, July 24 : CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has said that it was strange that after four years of Left support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has alleged that they wanted him to behave like a “bonded slave”.

“The Prime Minister has accused the Left parties as wanting to treat him as a bonded slave. Strange that it took him over four years of being the PM on the strength of the support of the Left parties to hurl such accusations,” Yechury said in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of People Democracy.

New Delhi, July 24 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh met Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee at his residence early this morning.

The meeting held a day after the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) expelled him from the party for refusing to follow the party''s advice regarding resignation from the Speaker''s post.

The discussion between the two is still unknown.

Jayanti Natarajan, a Congress spokesperson said that Chatterjee''s expulsion would have no bearing on his continuation as Speaker.