New Delhi: A day after Arun Goel resigned as election commissioner, the Congress and other opposition parties on Sunday asked whether he did so due to any differences with the chief election commissioner or the Narendra Modi government. Taking potshots at the BJP, some opposition leaders also wondered if Goel resigned to contest the Lok…
Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here and offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple after arriving in his parliamentary constituency to a rousing reception days after the BJP fielded him from the seat for a third time. BJP workers and locals lined up the roads outside the airport from where Modi…
New Delhi: The BJP, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Jana Sena Party have come to an understanding for stitching up an alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls, former chief minister of the southern state N Chandrababu Naidu said on Saturday. “Andhra Pradesh has been destroyed badly.The BJP and…
Kazirganga (Assam): Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the elephant and jeep safari inside Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Saturday morning, an official said. Modi, on his maiden visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, first took the elephant safari in Mihimukh area of the Central Kohora Range of the park followed by…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday greeted citizens on International Women’s Day and urged everyone to work together to remove the remaining hurdles from the path of young women and give them wings. “My greetings to all on Women’s Day! It is an occasion to celebrate Nari Shakti. A society’s progress is measured by…
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is touching new heights of development and breathing freely after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Thursday. Addressing a public rally, Modi also accused the Congress of misguiding not only the people of Jammu and Kashmir, but the entire nation on Article 370…
Tokyo: India and Japan are natural partners in a world headed towards “re-globalisation”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, asserting that the two nations also share basic affinities, being democracies and market economies. Jaishankar is in Tokyo for the second leg of his four-day visit to South Korea and Japan. Addressing the first…
Bettaiah (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled projects worth Rs 12,800 crore in Bihar on Wednesday. The PM unveiled the projects at a programme at Bettiah, the district headquarters town of West Champaran. Governor Rajendra V Arlekar, Deputy CMs Samat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and state minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary of the JD(U) were…
Kolkata: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off a metroll open India’s first under-river tunnel, fulfilling a 53-year-old dream of the city dwellers. Out of the total 4.8-km long tunnel between the two stations – Howrah Maidan and Esplanade – 1.2-km distance is 30 metres below the Hooghly river, making it “the country’s first transportation…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the foundation for development projects worth more than Rs 7,200 crore at Sangareddy, about 60 km from here, on Tuesday. Reiterating his commitment for Telangana’s progress, the PM said he works with the spirit that states’ development is the country’s growth. “Today 140 crore Indians…
