NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a meeting with BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers, emphasised that the flagship schemes of the Union government should be implemented with full vigour. The prime minister told the BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers to ensure that schemes like GatiShakti, Har Ghar Jal, Svamitva, DBT […]
NEW DELHI: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Draupadi Murmu is poised to become the 15th President of India, experts said as the voting concluded on Monday evening. Murmu, the former Governor of Jharkhand, will become the first tribal President of India if she manages to beat Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, which is, in all likelihood, […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking clearance to take part in the World Cities Summit scheduled to be held in Singapore on August 1. “The world wants to know the development model of Delhi,” the Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal wrote in the letter while […]
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has set a target of producing defence equipment worth Rs 1.75 lakh crores by 2025, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday adding that equipment worth Rs 35,000 crores would be exported. Addressing chief managing directors (CMDs) and non-official directors (NODs) of DPSUs at a first-of-its-kind workshop here, Singh said, […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to dedicate to the nation the In-Patient Department (IPD) and Operation Theater (OT) services at AIIMS, Deoghar during his visit to Deoghar and Patna tomorrow. PM Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS, Deoghar on May 25, 2018, with an aim to boost the healthcare sector for […]
NEW DELHI: On Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 121st birth anniversary, his nephew Chittatosh Mookerjee sensationally claimed the ideals of his uncle and that of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are different, in an unhinged interview with The New Indian. Reacting to it, the Congress slammed BJP on the birth anniversary of the Jan Sangh founder, whose sacrifices […]
Being the birthplace of Lord Shri Ram, Ayodhya has always been a very important pilgrimage centre for the Hindus. It is considered one of the abodes of an avatar of Shri Hari Vishnu. It is also an important historical and cultural city in the state of Uttar Pradesh with tourists from across the globe visiting […]
NEW DELHI: Veteran politician Yashwant Sinha on Monday asserted that the election for the President of India is not about two people but about two ideologies, as filed his nomination papers for the Presidential election in New Delhi. The former Bharatiya Janata Party leader was accompanied by the top leaders from the opposition including Congress’ […]
NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA government’s Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi today. She went on to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah later in the day. At the airport, Murmu was received by Union minister of tourism G Kishan Reddy, Union minister of […]
VADODARA: Prime minister Narendra Modi performed ground breaking ceremony for the Central University of Gujarat’s permanent campus here on Saturday, and inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for water distribution projects worth Rs 660 crore. Spread over an area of 100 acres, the CUG campus will be built at the cost of Rs 743 […]