NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday welcomed Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The two leaders exchanged a warm embrace and then held bilateral talks centred around strengthening the overall strategic partnership between India and the United Arab Emirates.Sheikh Khaled bin…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a telephonic conversation with India’s newest Paris Paralympics medallists, congratulating them on their achievements. During the call, PM Modi described their victories as the ‘biggest gift to the country’. The conversation included medal winners Harvinder Singh, Kapil Parmar, Pranav Soorma, Sachin Sarjerao Khilari and Dharambir.The PM…
NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday asked top business leaders in Singapore to look at investment opportunities in India, pitching the country as the best alternative for those looking to build a resilient supply chain, in what was a bid to tap into the China Plus One strategy.During his meeting leading Singaporean CEOs,…
PUNE/KOLHAPUR: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said PM Narendra Modi, besides his apology for the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj‘s statue in Sindhudurg, must express regret for demonetisation, flawed GST implementation, and destroying small and medium-scale (SME) industries.He was speaking in Kadegaon in Sangli district where he unveiled the memorial…
NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Singapore on Wednesday after concluding his visit to Brunei, he was warmly welcomed with dance and music performances by the Indian diaspora. PM Modi also joined the celebrations as he tried his hand at dhol.The video, which went viral in no time, showed PM Modi with…
NEW DELHI: In a strong indication of his govt’s intent to rollout one-third quota for women in Parliament and state legislatures, PM Narendra Modi Monday called upon BJP workers to conduct membership enrolment drive to help achieve the objective of having enough women as lawmakers in the next few years.Speaking at the launch of the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to press ahead with reforms, with a focus on high growth and stable policies, to realise the dreams of a developed country and asserted that the “resolve has got only stronger” in his third term.“I can only assure that the resolve is stronger and like our…
KOLKATA: Bengal is not Bangladesh, Mamata Banerjee declared on Wednesday amid the worst spell of public unrest in her three stints as CM. She asked PM Narendra Modi “not to play with fire”, suggesting that much of what had happened since the Aug 9 rape-murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar hospital was the…
BJP on Sunday said that implementing UPS was a commendable and meaningful decision as PM Narendra Modi has always taken keen interest in issues concerning central govt employees and had set up the Somanathan Committee to address them.“Modi govt makes decisions with thoughtful consideration, avoiding temporary measures. Every decision made by it is in public…
NEW DELHI: Faced with opposition, government on Tuesday cancelled the move to recruit 45 mid-level bureaucrats through “lateral entry” and announced the extension of quotas to such inductions as well.Government asked Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to withdraw the advertisement for 45 lateral inductions for the posts of joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries, in…
