Tag: Modi

New Delhi: The Centre has defended the 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker sections (EWS) among the general category in jobs and higher education on the grounds of promoting social equality and equal opportunities. Defending the reservation, the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court the amendment was not in breach of the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other politicians, sportspersons, actors, business leaders to encourage maximum voter engagement in 2019 general elections in April-May. “I appeal to Rahul Gandhi, (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata (Banerjee), (NCP chief) Sharad Pawar, (BSP supremo) Mayawati, (SP chief) Akhilesh Yadav, (RJD leader) Tejashwi […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his deep shock and sadness at the “loss of scores of innocent lives” in the heinous terrorist attack at Muslim places of worship in New Zealand’s Christchurch. In a letter to his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern, he expressed his deepest condolences to the families bereaved […]

Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding BJD’s confidence that has grown by leaps and bounds post the Bijepur by-election win, induction of  Congress strong man and sitting Jharsuguda MLA Naba Kishore Das and Sundergarh MLA Jogesh Singh into BJD, the vote trend and shares in rural polls 2017, however, are apparently dominating BJD electoral strategists’ psyche in  a big […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from his Varanasi constituency while BJP President Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, BJP leader J.P. Nadda announced on Thursday. The Gandhinagar seat is currently held by veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, who has been winning the seat […]

Bundi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of opposing and weakening all schemes that helped the poor, and said his party’s newly launched Nyay income guarantee scheme is not a free gift but justice for them. Addressing the Jan Sankalp Rally here, Gandhi said the Prime Minister failed to understand […]

Bhubaneswar: With Congress on the canvas in Berhampur Lok Sabha (LS) seat, a high-profile bi-polar contest is on the cards here in 2019 elections. When BJD is on an overdrive to score a ‘hat-trick’ in the elections, BJP is employing all ‘tricks’ at its command to reclaim the seat it won riding on Kargil wave […]

New Delhi:Taking potshots at the Modi government over rising unemployment and for “destroying” the country’s economy, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, the ‘Nyay’ income guarantee scheme would be a surgical strike on poverty and its announcement has ensured the BJP’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra […]

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday asked if former prime minister Indira Gandhi can be credited for dividing Pakistan, why shouldn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi get the credit for the Balakot air strike. Singh was addressing a rally here in support of BJP president Amit Shah, who will file his nomination from Gandhinagar Lok […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed his confident and said that people will give him opportunity to serve the country again. Modi is interacting with people throughout the country via video conferencing from Talkotra Stadium here. “Once again, the people of the country are going to give us the opportunity to serve […]

Agartala/New Delhi: The Union Rural Development Ministry has increased the rate of wages under the MGNREGA for the 2019-20 fiscal with approval from the Election Commission and has asked state governments not to publicise the enhancement of wage rates under the rural employment scheme. The Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have criticised […]

Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh): Terming the Congress manifesto a “dhakosla patra” (document of lies), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress of failing to fulfil the aspirations of the people in the northeast in 60 long years. But his own government was committed to making Arunachal Pradesh and Northeast India as the gateway to […]

New Delhi: Narendra Modi continues to be the popular choice to be the next Prime Minister across a wide section of society, but the gap between him and Rahul Gandhi is thinnest among housewives. An overwhelming 63.6 per cent of unemployed respondents in the latest CVOTER-IANS poll tracker survey preferred Narendra Modi as the next Prime […]

Wayanad (Kerala): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday filed nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections from Wayanad amid an outpouring of support from thousands on the streets, leading the party to claim it will sweep all 20 seats in Kerala. Thousands of men and women, and even the young, packed the streets of Wayanad […]

Amroha (Uttar Pradesh): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed a public rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha and launched a scathing attack on the Congress for questioning the Balakot airstrikes. “It worries some people that we killed terrorists. When we kill our enemies, some people cry in India. When Pakistan is being unmasked in front of […]