New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai. BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni has been fielded from Garhwal in Uttarakhand….
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, gave its ex-post facto approval to the Inter-Governmental Framework Agreement (IGFA) that was signed on February 13 between India and the United Arab Emirates on cooperation for the empowerment and operation of the India-Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The India-UAE IGFA…
Dhule: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday announced five “Mahila Nyay” guarantees, including Rs 1 lakh annually for the poor women and 50 per cent reservation in government jobs if his party is voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. AICC general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh promised that if the Congress…
Dholera (Gujarat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said when India commits, it delivers, referring to his government’s commitment to make the country a semiconductor manufacturing hub. Modi was virtually addressing people after laying the foundation stone of three semiconductor facilities of about Rs1.25 lakh crore, which include two in Gujarat and one in Assam….
Chandigarh: The BJP on Tuesday replaced Manohar Lal Khattar with OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana’s chief minister in a swift switch in the state, just weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Saini, who is the party’s state unit president, was sworn in as chief minister along with five ministers at a Raj…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has honoured Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain refugees by giving them citizenship through CAA, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday and maintained there is no provision of stripping of anyone’s citizenship in the new law. Hitting out at the Congress and AIMIM, Shah, addressing party meetings here, said…
Jaislmer/New Delhi: A Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) of the Indian Air Force crashed in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan on Tuesday during an operational training sortie, the first such incident involving the indigenously-built jet. The pilot ejected safely and there were no casualties, officials said. In a brief statement, the IAF said a court of inquiry…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually unveiled over 270 railway projects in Odisha and flagged off the state’s third Vande Bharat Express train. The new railway projects included signalling systems, good sheds and a new Vande Bharat Express that will operate between Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar, officials said. These were unveiled by the PM…
Chennai: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, veteran Tamil actor R Sarath Kumar on Tuesday merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP. In the presence of AISMK office-bearers and BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K Annamalai, Kumar merged his party with the saffron party. Welcoming Kumar and his party cadres and…
Jaisalme: The mega ‘Bharat Shakti’ exercise to demonstrate the prowess of indigenously manufactured defence equipment of the three services began in Rajasthan’s Pokhran firing range on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief General Manoj Pande in attendance. The exercise will be held for about 50 minutes. LCA Tejas,…
