Narendra Modi

France likely to offer 2 additional squadrons of Rafale to India

The latest offer for the same number of aircraft would cost considerably lesser as India has already made payments for fixed costs covering India-specific enhancements, training equipment, and infrastructure.

Aug 22, 2019

Ex-MP CM Babulal Gaur passes away

He was admitted to the hospital after his blood pressure dropped.

Aug 21, 2019

Rajiv Gandhi's 75th birth anniversary: Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other leaders pay tribute

Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by Rahul Gandhi, party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra paid tributes to the former Prime Minister at Virbhoomi in Delhi.

Aug 20, 2019

Modi calls up Trump, raises Pak's anti-India rhetoric

Modi told Trump that the extreme rhetoric and incitement to anti-India violence by certain leaders in the region was not conducive to peace.

Aug 20, 2019

Tesla shows interest in building large e-battery plants in India

If India slashes crude consumption it can save precious foreign exchange, besides controlling pollution in major cities.

Aug 19, 2019

Narendra Modi with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

PM Modi to travel to Abu Dhabi to receive UAE's highest honour 'Order of Zayed'

Modi will receive the Order of Zayed, the highest civil decoration of the UAE in recognition of distinguished leadership and for boosting bilateral relations between the two countries.

Aug 19, 2019

India isolates Pakistan at UN by winning the diplomatic war

By restating its position on how Pakistan remains a rogue state indulging in unabashed state-sponsored terror through proxies, India once again notched up major brownie points with the world community at large

Aug 17, 2019

PM-inspired stimulus package may come as early as this weekend

The January-March quarter GDP has slowed down to 5.8 per cent, the lowest in five years, which has caused pain points to emerge all across the economic vector.

Aug 16, 2019

The members of the United Nations Security Council hold a meeting to vote for a resolutions on controlling the turmoil in Venezuela on February 28, 2019 at the United Nations in New York.

UNSC to have informal meeting on Kashmir, but Pakistan can't speak at it

Except China, all the other four permanent members of the Council have openly backed New Delhi's position on Kashmir.

Aug 16, 2019

Chief of Defence Staff to Article 370: Key takeaways from PM Modi's Independence Day speech

This was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort after this year's Lok Sabha elections.

Aug 15, 2019

PM Narendra Modi announces CDS post, fulfills defence's long-pending proposal

The creation of a CDS post had been a major recommendation of the Kargil Review Committee of integration of the three services, Army, Navy and Air Force under a Chief of Defence Staff.

Aug 15, 2019

Post Article 370, one can proudly say One Nation, One Constitution: PM Modi

Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi said his government within 70 days of its second term had revoked Article 370 and 35A, doing the work that previous governments have been unable to do in the past 70 years.

Aug 15, 2019

Article 370 was a chain that kept people tied says PM Modi on Kashmir's special status

The people of India are witnessing tough but essential decisions that were earlier assumed to be impossible and are now becoming a reality, the PM said in an interview.

Aug 14, 2019

First session of Lok Sabha most productive since 1952: PM Narendra Modi

Modi government successfully piloted the revocation of the contentious Article 370 and Article 35A in a systematic and seamless manner within 75 days of coming to power.

Aug 14, 2019

Karnataka floods: CM Yediyurappa asks Centre to release Rs 10,000 crore in aid

CM Yediyurappa will visit Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 16 and request him for the immediate release of funds.

Aug 13, 2019

Amit Shah may hoist national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Independence Day

In 1992, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, accompanied by Modi, had unfurled the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, despite grave threat from various Pakistan-based terror organisations.

Aug 13, 2019

Modi to inaugurate 720 Mw hydro project in Bhutan visit

Modi's visit comes against the backdrop of China's increased wooing of the tiny but strategically important Himalayan nation.

Aug 10, 2019

Modi's healing touch for Jammu and Kashmir: PM promises jobs, tourism

Speaking on national television, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the people of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and the whole nation.

Aug 8, 2019

PM Modi to address nation at 8 pm amid Kashmir lockdown

PM Narendra Modi will outline the BJP government's vision on Jammu and Kashmir, and how it plans to bring about development to the now Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh.

Aug 8, 2019

Sushma Swaraj: A fiery leader and a mother figure

Sushma Swaraj might be remembered best for giving an all-new dimension to the role of foreign minister by being proactive in reaching out to Indians in distress in foreign lands.

Aug 7, 2019