New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Union Budget 2023-24 will help India establish as a lead player in the global green energy market and invited every stakeholder connected with the energy world to invest in the country. Narendra Modi was addressing a post-Budget webinar on Green Growth, the first of a […]
New Delhi: Many students struggle with the pressure that the current education system puts on them, which has prompted the government to try and “remove fear from the minds of children” by redesigning the curriculum from the foundational stage, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. Without directly referring to the recent cases of […]
New Delhi: Noting that he belongs to a family of bureaucrats and that the political opportunity as a union minister came as a bolt from the blue in 2019, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that his father Dr K Subrahmanyam was removed as Secretary, Defence Production, by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on Wednesday a plea by Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission of India (ECI) decision recognising the Eknath Shinde faction as the official Shiv Sena. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Thackeray, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud that if the ECI […]
In the wake of the recent demolition drive in Mehrauli carried out by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the Delhi government has stepped up its efforts to provide “immediate aid and relief to the hundreds of victims left homeless”. “The DDA had initiated a large-scale demolition of homes in the Ladha Sarai village under the […]
Agitated over the excessive taxes imposed by the state government, Kerala Opposition leader VD Satheesan said here on Tuesday that the ruling LDF is picking pocket of the common man. Addressing the day and night protest organised by the UDF here, Satheesan said the government, which gives the social security pension with one hand, is […]
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday called upon Indian and global industry leaders to support the government’s endeavour to design, develop and manufacture cutting-edge products, using critical technologies, within the country to attain complete ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence, with the overall objective of achieving shared global peace and prosperity. He was addressing over 70 CEOs of […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday attacked the Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena over the order of removal of its two ‘government nominees’ from the board of private DISCOMS, and called it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. AAP slammed the Delhi LG saying that he has made a “complete mockery” of all Supreme Court orders and the […]
Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan has said that India stands ready to extend support to the people of earthquake-hit Turkey. Muraleedharan made the remarks at the Hindon Airbase in Ghaziabad from where Indian Air Force’s C17 Globemaster aircraft with medical equipment, ration and relief equipment took off for Turkey, as part […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said criticism is part of democracy, and gives it strength, but what the country witnessed during the last nine years was compulsive criticism by people who were not able to accept the world appreciating India’s potential and looking towards it with hope and expectation. The prime minister was replying […]