Tag: Amit Shah

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday urged people to nominate individuals who have been working with distinction or achieved exceptional achievements in different fields and disciplines such as art, science, social work and sports for the Padma awards. He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to making the prestigious Padma […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday kicked off the party’s “seva saptah” (service week) as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday celebrations. Shah, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party Working President J.P. Nadda, senior party leader Vijay Goel and Vijender Gupta swept the floors at the All India […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday greeted the nation on the occasion of ‘Hindi Diwas’ and asked citizens to increase the use of the language in their everyday works to realise the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. “India is a country of different languages and every language has its own […]

New Delhi: Announcing that ‘Hindi Diwas’ will be celebrated publicly from 2020, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that Hindi would achieve new heights by the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Shah also appealed to people to at least talk to their children in Hindi, saying any language will remain lively till the people […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 69 on Tuesday and was greeted by several leaders, including Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah. In his message, Naidu said the nation is making steady progress under Modi’s able leadership. Shah described Modi as a leader […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Modi government will not tolerate any breach of India’s territory and is ready to deal with any such acts strongly. Shah also asserted that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has been peaceful ever since the special status given to the state under 370 […]

Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has supported Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s call for ‘one nation, one language’ and said he didn’t believe English language was the only key to development. Addressing a function here on Monday, the Chief Minister said, “There are examples of successful countries, like Japan, Russia, Germany and France, […]

Bhubaneswar: They say, “Kanoon ke haath bahut lambe hote hain”, but certainly not for this 22-year-old girl from Bhawanipatna, who, along with her mother has been running from pillar to post seeking justice for her father’s death 20 years back. Ruksana alleges her father died of poisoning by her paternal uncles in 1999. Bereft of […]

Jamtara: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had shown Pakistan its place by abrogating the special status for Jammu and Kashmir and has also shown to the world that Kashmir is an inalienable part of India. “No one can raise an eye on Kashmir now,” Shah said. Amit […]

Ranchi: Seeking to put to rest the controversy over his remarks on Hindi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said he has never asked for imposition of Hindi anywhere in the country but advocated its use as the second language Shah said he has been repeatedly pitching for strengthening regional languages. “I too come […]

Chandigarh: Union Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah will be chairing the 29th meeting of the Northern Zonal Council (NZC) here to be hosted by the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday. Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, the newly created Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and the Delhi governments constitute the […]

Ranchi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that the NRC will be introduced throughout India and all illegal immigrants will be thrown out of the country through legal means. He also said that people of the country have given its stamp of approval for the nationwide-implementation of the National Register of Citizens through […]

Kolkata: West Bengal’s opposition Left parties and the Congress have lashed out against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments that the issue of National Register of Citizens was not discussed during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Referring to BJP state president Dilip Ghosh’s recent remark that two crore foreigners have […]

New Delhi: TMC chief Mamata Banerjee will call on Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, leading to speculation that the meeting is an effort to rescue former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar who is under the CBI’s scanner and is believed to be close to her, sources said. The West Bengal chief minister, who is […]

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee met Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Thursday. Banerjee arrived at Shah’s office at North Block for the meeting. She met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and raised the issue of renaming the state. Banerjee also invited the prime minister to […]