Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday exuded confidence that the BJP will win 11 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the upcoming polls. He said the saffron party will also “try to secure the 12th seat” in the state. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a programme…
New Delhi: A 46-metre indigenously designed and manufactured modular bridge was inducted into the Indian Army on Tuesday, a move that will bolster the crucial bridging capability of the force’s engineers. The induction ceremony took place at the Manekshaw Centre here in the presence of Army chief General Manoj Pande and senior officials of the…
Thiruvananthapuram: Group Captains Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubanshu Shukla have been selected as astronaut-designates for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme, the country’s India’s first crewed mission to space. Their names were revealed during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram…
Thiruvananthapuram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a swipe at the Congress and Communist parties, which are making efforts to form a strong alternative against the BJP at the Centre, pointing out they are each other’s enemies in Kerala, but in other states, they are BFFs’ Best Friends Forever. Speaking at the conclusion ceremony…
New Delhi: Terming startups as the backbone of new India, Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday exhorted entrepreneurs not to “miss the bus” and make most of the opportunities as India transitions to become a 35 trillion dollar economy by 2047. India, he said, has emerged as a global leader, and its story is one…
Thiruvananthapuram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated 3 major space infrastructure projects of ISRO during his visit to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) at Thumba near here. The Prime Minister also reviewed ISRO’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme during his visit. Modi, accompanied by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and…
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda on Monday flagged off ‘Viksit Bharat Modi ki guarantee’ video vans, seeking people’s suggestions from across the country for preparing the ruling party’s manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In his address, he said the vans will gather suggestions from the people for the party’s ‘sankalp patra’…
Chandigarh/Lucknow: Farmers took out tractor rallies at several places in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and burnt effigies, demanding the agriculture sector be taken out of the WTO agreement. In Uttar Pradesh, the rallies led to disruption in traffic at many places and farmers also burnt effigies representing the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day tour of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra from Tuesday and will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 24,000 crore. He will also release the 16th instalment of about Rs 21,000 crore to farmers under the ‘PM-KISAN’…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the death of renowned ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas and said he was a beacon of Indian music whose melodies transcended generations. “We mourn the loss of Pankaj Udhas ji, whose singing conveyed a range of emotions and whose ghazals spoke directly to the soul,” Modi said…
