New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the Sikh gurus have taught Indians to live for the glory of their land and served as an inspiration to make the country better and developed. Speaking at a “Veer Bal Diwas” event to commemorate the martyrdom of two sons of Guru Gobind Singh, Modi…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda arrived in Kolkata in the early hours of Tuesday, a party leader said. The two senior BJP leaders will assess the organisational preparedness in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls next year, he said. Shah and Nadda reached the Kolkata…
Jammu: Army chief General Manoj Pande arrived here on Monday to review the prevailing security situation in the Jammu region amid a massive ongoing operation to track down the terrorists behind a recent ambush on Army vehicles that left four soldiers dead in the border district of Poonch, officials said. The chief of Army staff reached…
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda visited the Sacred Heart cathedral here on the occasion of Christmas on Monday and hailed Jesus Christ as an inspiration for humanity. Nadda met senior priests at the cathedral, in what is being seen as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) outreach to Christians. Prime Minister Narendra…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaped praise on the Christian community on Monday for its role in giving direction to the society and sense of service, and said the country proudly acknowledges this. In an interaction with the members of the community at his residence here on Christmas, Modi recalled his old, intimate and warm…
New Delhi: India recorded a single-day rise of 628 new COVID-19 cases while the active caseload jumped to 4,054, according to Union Health Ministry data. The total fatalities were recorded at 5,33,334 (5.33 lakh) with one new death reported from Kerala in the previous 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. Beed records three…
New Delhi: The ruling party has “weaponized” the suspension of MPs as a convenient tool to “undermine democracy, sabotage Parliamentary practices and throttle the Constitution”, Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. In his reply to a letter written by Dhankhar, Kharge said the Chairman’s letter “unfortunately…
Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said investments of thousands of crores have been made in Indore’s vicinity during the BJP’s “double-engine” government. This will give rise to thousands of employment opportunities, Modi said addressing via video link a programme organised to distribute dues worth Rs 224 crore to workers of the Hukumchand Mill…
Jorhat (Assam): Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday said investment to the tune of around Rs 200 crore will be made in the CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST) to build capacity for the medicinal plant sector of the region. The amount is aimed at creating infrastructure that will boost medicinal plant storage…
Bhopal: The new Madhya Pradesh cabinet will be expanded on Monday, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said. “The oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet will take place at 3:30 pm tomorrow (Monday),” Yadav told reporters after meeting BJP president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Sunday evening. He, however, refused to divulge details like the number…
