New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday and praised him for instilling a culture of achieving great goals in the country. “Today, the global community is also expressing its faith in your guidance,” Murmu said in her birthday greetings to the PM. Modi was born on…
Bengaluru: Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday inaugurated ARM’s new office in Bengaluru and said the company will design two-nanometer chips at its new unit. He said India has made significant progress in the semiconductor sector since 2014 due to a stable and forward-looking policy framework under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday launched a song, ‘Namo Pragati Delhi – From Children’s Voices to the Nation’s Voice’, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. The song is sung by children from Delhi’s government schools and incorporates melodies from India’s diverse languages, said an official statement. It stands…
Raipur: The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), in a purported statement, has announced a temporary suspension of its armed struggle to facilitate peace talks, but has asked the government to declare a one-month ‘ceasefire’ and halt security operations to initiate the process. Reacting to the development, the Chhattisgarh government said it is verifying the…
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had a “wonderful” phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during which he extended birthday greetings to his “friend” and thanked the Indian leader for his support on ending the Russia-Ukraine war. The call, which came a day before Modi turned 75, is being seen…
In the long history of independent India, no leader has commanded such respect, authority, and popularity as Narendra Damodardas Modi. At 75, he remains as strong as ever—both in health and in the sharpness of his intellect. Since being declared the BJP’s Prime Ministerial face in 2013—endorsed not only by the party but also by…
T Vivek It has now become de rigueur to engage in conversation about the appellation that this day should be assigned. Opinions are sharply divided, and questions galore. Even as we recognize that history is a record of events of the past, one cannot shy away from commentary on carefully chosen facts. After all, if…
She has been the rebel with no pause for more than two decades now. But this time, Arundhati Roy has outdone herself. In a shocking analogy, the Booker Prize winner of The God of Small Things declared that India has ‘perpetually waged war on its own citizens’ while Pakistan never used its army against its…
The headline is not necessarily a signal of eulogy on Narendra Modi. But as he celebrates his 75th birthday, Modi deserves to be showered with encomiums for all the facts that brought him to a stage of invincibility. Either as longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat and going to be one as the Prime Minister…
(The Iron Lady of simplicity and struggle, where motherly affection, social consciousness and the embodiment of womanly resolve continued together.) Santosh Vashisht’s life is a unique example of struggle and simplicity. She started her journey from the kitchen and gave direction to the society by becoming the editor of Dainik Chetna. Soft-spoken, gentle and friendly,…
