Washington: The Indian economy is projected to grow at 7.5 per cent in 2024, the World Bank has said, revising its earlier projections for the same period by 1.2 per cent. Overall, growth in South Asia is expected to be strong at 6.0 per cent in 2024, driven mainly by robust growth in India and…
Rudrapur (U’khand): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi for his remark suggesting that there will be a “conflagration” in the country if he gets a third term and asked the people to wipe out the Congress from everywhere. Addressing his first election rally in Uttarakhand, Modi said he…
Surat: To compete with China on the economic front, India should focus on manufacturing, a key sector which was ignored by governments before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. Noting that tension at the border with China has caused “abnormality” in New Delhi-Beijing relations, he…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was brought to Tihar Jail here on Monday after a city court sent him to judicial custody till April 15, officials said. Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an excise policy-linked money laundering case. “He was brought to Tihar jail and…
Meerut (UP): Thousands of people from the Muslim community, some of them part of a motorcycle rally, on Sunday attended the election meeting addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here, BJP’s minority wing office-bearers said. “A little over 10,000 Muslims attended the election rally. Most of them came from Meerut district,” said Javed Malik, president…
Nagpur: Avowing abiding confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of 370 seats, BJP leader Nitin Gadkari says the additional seats to its current strength of 288 will come from gains in southern India in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In a wide ranging interview with PTI at his residence in Nagpur, Gadkari said there…
Thiruvananthapuram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with the BJP’s booth level ‘karyakartas’ or workers in Kerala through the Namo App and asked them to inform voters that both the ruling LDF and the opposition UDF in the state were the two sides of the same coin. The prime minister claimed that both fronts,…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian honour, on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. The awards to Rao, Singh,…
Amaravati: YSRCP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday said he is ready to stand by the poor to defeat capitalists in the forthcoming elections, which he dubbed as a ‘Kurukshetra battle’. Addressing a public meeting at Yemmiganuru in Kurnool district as part of ‘Memanta Siddham’ (We are all…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cautioned that a powerful technology like AI in unskilled, untrained hands holds significant risk of misuse, as he advocated the need for clear ‘dos and don’ts’ and use of watermarks on AI-generated content to curb misinformation and deepfake-related harms in the society. In a candid, free-wheeling chat…
