Abu Dhabi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks with the UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during which they reviewed the strategic partnership, discussed new areas of cooperation and witnessed the signing of several agreements, including a bilateral investment treaty. In a special and warm gesture, Modi was received at…
Chandigarh: The Haryana Police on Tuesday hurled multiple rounds of tear gas shells, including through drones, at the Shambhu border near Ambala to disperse farmers marching towards Delhi to seek enactment of a law on minimum support price. Chaotic scenes were witnessed near the border as farmers deployed tractors to remove cemented blocks which had…
Chandigarh: The Haryana Police hurled tear gas shells at farmers who tried to break barricades set up at the state’s border with Punjab at Shambhu near Ambala as farmers demanding a law on minimum support price marched toward Delhi. A few farmers were detained as well near the Shambhu border, official sources said. The Haryana…
Chandigarh: Farmers are set to begin their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march Tuesday morning, a farmer leader asserted here after their five-hour-long meeting with two Union ministers over their demands remained inconclusive. However, Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, who along with Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal attended the second round of talks with the farmer…
Bihar: The Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar won a vote of confidence in the assembly on Monday. The new government secured 129 votes amid a walkout by the opposition members. The Bihar assembly has a strength of 243 MLAs. Earlier in the day, Bihar Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary was removed from his post in…
New Delhi: In a major diplomatic triumph for India, eight veterans of the Indian Navy who were sentenced to death in Qatar, were released by Doha on Monday. The capital punishment was commuted to an extended prison term earlier following diplomatic intervention by New Delhi. Amid desperate pleas by the anxious kin of the Navy…
Tankara (Guarat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that an education system based on Indian values is the need of the hour. He was virtually addressing an event organised to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Arya Samaj founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati at his birth place Tankara in Gujarat’s Morbi district. “Swami Dayanand Saraswati…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the outgoing Lok Sabha saying many decisions, including the repeal of Article 370 and the passage of women’s reservation bill, were taken during its tenure for which many generations had long waited while game-changing reforms in the period laid the foundation of a strong India. Touching…
New Delhi: The BJP will get 370 seats and the NDA more than 400 in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and form the government for a third consecutive term under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Saturday. Shah asserted that there is no suspense over the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that he has already begun preparing a road map for his third term and has taken suggestions from more than 15 lakh people, asserting that the new India “will now work with super speed”. Addressing the Times Group’s ET NOW Global Business Summit, Modi said that…
