Tag: Indian Prime Minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Meets Pope Francis in Rome, ahead Of G20 summit. Reports stated that the meeting which was scheduled for 20 minutes lasted for an hour with the PM discussing a wide range of issues with the Pope.

Johannesburg: India and South Africa signed three agreements, including in the areas of agriculture and space cooperation, following bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the annual BRICS Summit here. Addressing the media here on Thursday evening, Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said that […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump celebrated Diwali at the White House by lighting a diya amid a gathering of leading members of the Indian American community and said he greatly valued his relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Trump’s daughter Ivanka also attended the festivities in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Also present were […]

Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has conferred its highest civilian honour, the Zayed Medal, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi was honoured by President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in appreciation of the Indian leader’s role in consolidating the long-standing friendship and joint strategic cooperation between the two countries, WAM news agency […]

Dehradun: Five days ahead of the election results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning offered prayers at the Kedarnath shrine nestled in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand. Early in the day, Modi arrived at Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport and took a helicopter to Kedarnath. He was wearing a grey attire with a pahari cap and […]

Colombo: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday agreed that terrorism was a joint threat that needed collective and focussed action. Modi tweeted this after holding bilateral talks with Sirisena, shortly after arriving here from the Maldives. Modi said this was his second meeting with Sirisena in 10 days. […]

New York: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Indian Prime Minister as a “new kind of leader for the world’s most populous democracy”, and quoted Narendra Modi’s election slogan in Hindi, “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (“Modi makes it possible”), at a summit here. Pompeo made the remarks during his keynote address to the […]

Bishkek: Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov has gifted a traditional hat and coat of his country to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister’s Office shared pictures of Modi wearing the white colour attire. Jeenbekov also presented Modi a “Samovar”. Modi held talks with the Kyrgyz President on Friday following the end of the SCO […]

Paris: Having completed the France leg of his three-nation tour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday embarked on a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “India-France bilateral relations have gone from strength to strength. After the successful conclusion of the first leg of his 3-country visit, PM @narendramodi embarks for Abu Dhabi,” Ministry of […]

Washington: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, a bipartisan group of 44 influential lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to reinstate India’s designation as a beneficiary developing nation under the key GSP trade programme as part of a potential trade deal between the two countries. The Trump administration terminated India’s designation […]

New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the UN Secretary General’s summit on Climate Change on Monday, besides participating in a Leaders’ Dialogue on Strategic Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives. The Prime Minister, who arrived here on Sunday night after the successful ‘Howdy, Modi!’ event, will also hold bilateral meetings with the […]

Ever since COVID-19 has hit the world nothing has been stable. The big jolt came when India announced its first phase of lockdown which started from midnight on 24 March 2020 and continued up to 14 April 2020. Since the cases of coronavirus kept on increasing the lockdown was extended until 4 May and then […]

New Delhi: Narendra Modi has yet another milestone to his credit – becoming the longest-serving non-Congress Prime Minister of India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who held that distinction so far had three runs at India’s top post – first for 13 days from May 16, 1996 till May 28, 1996, followed by his 408 day second […]