New Delhi: Virat, the President’s Bodyguard (PBG) Commandant’s black horse, retired from his years-long service after the 73rd Republic Day Parade here on Wednesday. Virat was awarded the Chief of the Army Staff Commendation on the eve of Army Day on Jan. 15. Virat is the first horse to receive the commendation for exceptional service…
PM urges children to go vocal for local
January 25, 2022New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday appealed to children to become ambassadors of his ‘vocal for local’ strategy to highlight the indigenous and achieve the goal of self-reliance. Modi was interacting with the awardees of Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) via video conferencing. “Just as you came forward for the Swachch Bharat…
PM for public-administration link for progress
January 23, 2022Modi holds virtual meet of District Magistrates New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed the need for direct connection between the administration and the public to develop aspirational districts and said one of the important aspects for this was technology and innovation. “For development in aspirational districts, a direct connection between the administration…
PM Modi calls startups “backbone” of new India
January 16, 2022Declares Jan. 16 as ‘National Startup Day’ New Delhi: The country will celebrate January 16 as National Startup Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a virtual gathering of over 150 entrepreneurs yesterday as he termed startups as the “backbone” of new India and the engine that will power the nation’s economic growth in the run…
PM appreciates Karnataka’s 5T plan to tackle Covid
January 14, 2022Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appreciated the 5T plan of Testing, Tracking, Tracing, Triaging and Technology adopted by the State Government to control Covid, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said. Bommai, who participated in a video-conference, chaired by Modi with Chief Ministers of various States, said, “I explained the measures taken by the Government to…
Accelerate teenagers vaccination in mission mode: PM Modi
January 10, 2022New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting to assess the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country and directed the officials that intensive containment and active surveillance should continue in clusters reporting higher cases. The PM noted the achievement that 31 percent adolescents aged 15-18 years have been administered with the…
What it takes to be a leader? —1
January 4, 2022Concern, Confidence and Courage? We often hear the refrain ‘leadership crisis.’ When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister and Vallabhbhai Patel was not there, we heard political pundits asking, ‘After Nehru who?’ A foreign journalist and author Welles Hangen had even written a book with that title in 1963, a year before Nehru died….
‘May we keep scaling new heights of progress’
January 1, 2022New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished joy and good health to people on the first day of the new year today. “May we keep scaling new heights of progress and prosperity, and work even harder to fulfil the dreams of our great freedom fighters,” the Prime Minister said in his first tweet of 2022….
IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath calls on PM Narendra Modi
December 16, 2021Mysuru-born economist will be in her hometown for a week from Dec. 18 New Delhi: Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital yesterday. The meeting comes days after the IMF announced that she is being promoted as its First Deputy…
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Kashi Vishwanath corridor
December 13, 2021Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath corridor during his two-day visit to Varanasi. Prior to that, he took a holy dip in river Ganga and offered prayers. PM Modi was received by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and had a rousing welcome from the people of his Lok Sabha Constituency….















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