Tag: Prime Minister

New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has poked fun at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming “Howdy Modi” event in Houston, the USA, where he will be addressing the Indian diaspora. Modi is also likely to share the stage with US President Donald Trump. Rahul tweeted: “Howdy” economy doin’, Mr Modi? Ain’t too good it […]

New Delhi: India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan for denying overflight clearance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s VVIP plane for his upcoming visit to the US, saying Islamabad should reflect upon its decision to deviate from well established international practice and reconsider its “old habit” of misrepresenting the reasons for taking unilateral action. Pakistan’s […]

New Delhi: Amid reports that Saudi Aramco is set to announce its IPO next month, which would be the world’s largest ever listing, India would be looking to expedite the $44 billion West Coast refinery project in Maharashtra, in which Saudi Aramco is to hold considerable stake, as well Reliance Industries Ltd $15 billion deal […]

New Delhi: Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, who is the chief guest of the eighth International Conference on Agriculture Statistics here, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also met Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Textiles and Women and Child Development. “Prior to the launch of […]

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 […]

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: Over 200 Academicians in the country, including university vice-chancellors, have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the left-wing is sponsoring violence in campuses in the name of student politics They, dated January 11 and signed by 208 vice-chancellors, professors and academics, also said that efforts are being made by […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday praised the Union budget for its “vision and action” and was joined by top BJP leaders in hailing it, but the Opposition slammed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcements as “insipid”, saying they show that the government is “all talk”. Sitharaman’s second budget, which she took a record […]

New Delhi: The BJP-led Central government will provide ‘pucca’ houses to all poor families by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday while addressing an election rally ahead of the February 8 assembly polls. The Aam Aadmi Party will continue to stall welfare schemes for people if it is voted back to power, the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a strong defence of NPR saying the country’s population register was being updated with demographic information for better targeting of government’s welfare schemes. He accused Opposition parties such as the Congress of misleading people on the National Population Register (NPR) for their “narrow vote bank politics”. […]

Bhubaneswar: Highlighting the challenge of the Coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation today, announced a 21-day lockdown from 12 AM tonight. “If we are not able to manage the upcoming 21-day lockdown(of nationwide complete lockdown), we will be pushed back 21 years. This lockdown is in a way a […]

New Delhi: As India enters final week of the lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday conveyed to chief ministers that the country will have to give importance to the economy as well as to continue the fight against coronavirus. In a video conference with the chief ministers, fourth such interaction since March 22 when […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a fresh round of consultation with chief ministers on ways to strengthen the COVID-19 containment strategy and stepping up of economic activities in a calibrated manner as the 54-day nationwide lockdown nears an end. The large-scale movement of migrant workers from urban to rural India and […]

New Delhi: After contributing one month’s salary to the PM-CARES fund in March, President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said he would “forego” 30 per cent of his salary for the fund for a year and reduce expenses of the Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of the steps to make more resources available for Covid-19 relief […]

Bhubaneswar: The focus of the Centre should be to feed the hungry so that they can tide through the tough situation arising out of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi while addressing regional media on Saturday. Responding to a question by OTV News Editor Radhamadhab Mishra on Prime Minister Narendra […]