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NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said that Pakistan has “no locus standi” to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The MEA’s response came after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had termed PM Modi’s recent visit to Jammu as “staged”. “I do not understand the word […]

  NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday convened the first secretary-level meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group (IMCG), a mechanism set up for mainstreaming India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy in line with PM Narendra Modi’s vision. Secretaries of ministries/departments of Home, Commerce, Finance, Fisheries, representatives from ministries/departments of Defence, Railways, Economic Affairs, Consumer […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his newly-elected Pakistani counterpart Shahbaz Sharif on Monday, and said that India desired peace and stability in a region free of terrorism. “Congratulations to H.E. Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on his election as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. India desires peace and stability in a region free of terror, […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov here on Friday, and conveyed “India’s readiness to contribute in any way to the peace efforts”. As per a release by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi reiterated his call for an early cessation of violence. The Russian foreign minister briefed […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the war in Ukraine had “raised questions about the stability of the international order” and called for deepening regional cooperation among south and south-east Asian countries. Virtually addressing the 5th BIMSTEC Summit, PM Modi called up BIMSTEC member states — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the evolving situation in Ukraine over a phone call on Monday. President Putin briefed PM Modi on the status of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian teams, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a release. “Prime Minister Modi welcomed the ongoing negotiations […]

NEW DELHI: Minister of women and child development of India, Smriti Irani lashed out at the Punjab Government of congress for the major lapse in the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She held a press conference and said that “Never before in the history of our country were police functionaries in a state directed and […]

Many described demonetisation as a ‘surgical strike on corruption’. Others tried to justify it as a soft nudge from Prime minister Modi towards a digital economy vis-a-vis ‘Digital India’. “To break the grip of corruption and black money, we have decided that the five hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the installation of a giant statue of Adi Sankara at Kedarnath on November 5, 2021. On the reconstructed Samadhi of the great seer Prime Minister said, “Adi Shankaracharya’s samadhi is a supernatural view of India’s spiritual prosperity and breadth.” “The meaning of Shankar in Sanskrit is – ‘Sham Karoti Saha Shankarah’, […]