Tag: Prime Minister

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi arrived back here yesterday night after his six-day, three-nation tour that took him to China, Mongolia and South Korea. Modi, who left on May 14, spent three days in China. He visited Xi’an, Beijing and Shanghai, and held talks with the Chinese leadership. He went to Mongolia on May […]

Seoul: With several hundred Korean companies already operating in India, prime minister Narendra Modi today invited South Korean companies and asked them to help India achieve the economic success. “We in India want to achieve a lot of what Korea has already done. That is why I, along with a large business delegation, are here,” […]

Shanghai: Prime minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Centre for Gandhian and Indian Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai and said Gandhian philosophy can help in the fight against terrorism and deal with climate change. “Historic launch of Centre for Gandhian & Indian Studies at Fudan University by PM @narendramodi,” tweeted external affairs ministry spokesperson […]

Shanghai: India is ready to do business and is constantly improving the ease of doing business, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today at the India-China Business Forum here that saw 21 business agreements worth $22 billion being signed. In his address to the India-China Business Forum, Modi said that India offers historic opportunity for Chinese […]

Beijing: Prime minister Narendra Modi today attended a Yoga-Taichi event at the Temple of Heaven in central Beijing accompanied by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. “Wonderful to see Indian students doing Taichi and Chinese students doing Yoga,” the prime minister tweeted. Modi congratulated Li for the conceptualisation of the unique event. “The holistic health care that […]

Xi’an: Prime minister Narendra Modi held summit-level talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping here today after which the two leaders went to visit the Wild Goose Pagoda there. Modi, who arrived here in the morning, held delegation level talks with Xi. Xi welcomed Modi at the Shaanxi guest house and the two leaders shook hands […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached out to his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala in the wake of another major earthquake in the Himalayan nation and assured all necessary help. “PM Sushil Koirala and I had a telephonic conversation. We reviewed the situation arising due to yesterday’s tremors,” Modi tweeted. “I assured PM Koirala […]

Prime minister Narendra Modi condemned the attack on a bus in Karachi in Pakistan today

Observing that strained centre-state ties have long hindered India's progress, prime minister Narendra Modi today said only 'Team India' - the central government and states - can take the country on the path of development

British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron has insisted that his party can secure a majority vote in Thursday's elections, but at the same time opened the door for coalition strategising

Singapore: Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday shared the last computer programme he wrote on his Facebook account as he was asked for it when he attended the Founders Forum two weeks ago. Lee said that he wrote the programme, Sudoku solver, in C++ several years ago, and shared the source code, the exe […]

Vancouver: Prime Minister Narendra Modi after reaching Vancouver, visited Gurudwara , he was accompanied by his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper here. At the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Sikh Gurudwara, located on the southern edge of Vancouver, a large crowd of supporters gathered at the temple before filing inside. The president of the historic Sikh society, which […]

Prime minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Sri Lankan capital early Thursday on the third and final leg of his three-nation visit. His visit is the first bilateral prime ministerial visit to Sri Lanka in 28 years

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today confessed that he was an ordinary student and had bad hand-writing

Pinning hopes on the good monsoon and recent reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said economic growth will cross 5 per cent in the current financial year and accelerate further in the coming years