Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak on Saturday called on President Pranab Mukherjee. "India-Malaysia Partnership continues to forge ahead. PM Najib Razak calls on the President at Rashtrapati Bhawan (here)," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted. Earlier in the day, Razak paid tributes at Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi at the Rajghat and also called …
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April 1, 2017Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said a new India which stands for development is emerging. "A new India is emerging, which is being powered by the strength and skills of 125 crore Indians. This India stands for development," he tweeted. Modi's tweet came after the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday registered landslide victory in assembly elections in Uttar …
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March 12, 2017Carrying out his campaign trail in his Lok Sabha constituency ahead of the last phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on March 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Varanasi’s Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Saturday. Huge crowd of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters greeted him in front of the university as he drove inside …
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March 4, 2017Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that his government’s fight against corruption was “not political” and it was imperative to punish the corrupt in order to empower the country’s honest citizens. In his reply to a debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in the Rajya Sabha, Modi said: “Corruption has adversely impacted …
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February 8, 2017If only….” That colloquialism would probably best respond to the message the Prime Minister sought to send to students and their families on Sunday. For while there is no cause to dispute the rather relevant points he made, there will have to be a sea-change in social norms if people are to be unshackled from …
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January 30, 2017Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to defer presentation of the Union Budget till the completion of poll process in five states. The letter sent to the prime minister earlier this week cited the Election Commission directive on January 23 asking the Central …
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January 27, 2017More than 2,500 years ago, Lord Buddha spoke of ‘impermanence’ or anitya in Sanskrit. For the sage, it was one of the three marks of conditioned existence, which without exception are “transient, evanescent, inconstant”; all temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, subject to decline and destruction, taught …
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January 14, 2017A senior BJP Goa leader and former state minister Wilfred Mesquita has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his displeasure against the goings-on in the local party unit claiming that they have been "patronising corruption" and working against his (PM's) objectives. "Fighting for systemic change, cleaning the economy to free the country from corruption, …
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January 12, 2017Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced early on Sunday that he would be stepping down after losing a referendum on constitutional reform. “My experience of government finishes here,” Renzi told a press conference after the No campaign won what he described as an “extraordinarily clear” victory in the referendum on which he had staked his …
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December 5, 2016