Tag: Narendra Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the launch of Fit India School grading system in schools across the country, in his radio programme Mann Ki Baat. In his address, Modi said: “In the Fit India Movement, schedules have been drawn for ranking schools in accordance with fitness. The schools that achieve this […]

Sambalpur: The government is working hard to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of making the country a five trillion dollar economy by 2024 and has taken steps to overcome the phase of economic slowdown, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pramod Kumar Misra said on Friday. The nation is witnessing a new sense of […]

New Delhi: Just a day after India observed the 11th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks which killed 166 people and injured over 300 others in Mumbai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a moving letter to the attack’s youngest survivor — Moshe Tzvi Holtzberg from Israel, who was a toddler at the time of the […]

New Delhi: Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to provide the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) security only to the prime minister and for a restricted period to ex-PMs, with Home Minister Amit Shah rejecting the opposition’s charge of political vendetta and asserting the government was concerned about security of all 130 crore Indians and […]

New Delhi: Amid the oxygen crises in Covid-19 hospitals across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday directed the concerned officials to ensure that oxygen is supplied to various…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the opposition of speaking Pakistan’s language on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and asserted that the proposed legislation will be written in “golden letters” in history. Addressing the BJP parliamentary party meeting, Modi said the bill is as “historic” as the government’s decision to nullify Article 370, Parliamentary […]

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday teared into the Narendra Modi government over controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, and called upon people to raise voice against it. Addressing the Bharat Bachao rally here at Ramlila ground, Priyanka Gandhi said: “This law will become the reason for the division of the country. […]

Dumka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday claimed that his government saved the country by getting the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) passed by Parliament. Launching a blistering attack on the Congress, Modi said, “The Congress and its allies oppose the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi. While opposing Modi they have started opposing their […]

New Delhi: Noting that the economy has gone through ups and downs in the past too, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cited macroeconomic data from previous governments to suggest that the economy would bounce back again with much vigour and strength. Speaking at the centenary event of industry chamber Assocham, Modi said that GDP […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Ruling Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) consistent support for the BJP-led NDA government in the last few months has triggered all kinds of speculations. While some analysts have gone to the extent of suggesting that this could be a prelude to the revival of BJD-BJP alliance in the state others have hinted […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused his rivals of stoking fears among people and misleading Muslims over the amended citizenship law, and asserted that his government’s schemes have never done any discrimination on the basis of religion. Addressing a rally at Ramlila Maidan here, he said the citizenship law and the proposed […]

New Delhi: In a sharp response to the violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during his speech at Ramlila ground on Sunday: “Burn Modi’s effigy, but do not burn public property”. “Hate me if you want to, but don’t hate India. Burn my effigy, but don’t burn a poor […]

New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here on Sunday, giving a clean chit to the police by blaming the politics for violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the national capital, speculations about the continuance of Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik are set to subside. The Delhi Police have been under the […]

Bhubaneswar: Even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a rally in the national capital, said that the Citizenship law and NRC will not affect any Indian citizen of any religion in the country, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) were held in several parts of Odisha on Monday. Members of Anjuman-e-Islamia launched a […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that the Rohtang tunnel, which connects Himachal Pradesh with Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, and Manali with Leh, will now be known as the ‘Atal Tunnel’. Modi made the announcement to name the tunnel on the occasion of the 95th birth anniversary of late former Prime […]