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A consensus builder, Jaitley was regarded by some as Modi’s original ‘Chanakya’. Informally called ‘scholar minister’ in political circles, he could be the man Friday of anyone at the helm. Suave, articulate and a super strategist, Arun Jaitley was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief trouble-shooter whose superb four-decade-long political career […]
Why in a more uncertain world order, India and France are natural partners in building the new coalitions. For nearly four decades, successive French presidents — Francois Mitterand in the 1980s, Jacques Chirac from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and Nicolas Sarkozy after that — made repeated efforts to elevate the engagement with India to […]
Currently, as part of the global effort to fight climate change, India has set a few targets for itself for the year 2030. IN A new announcement, India on Friday said that by next year it would draw up a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the “long-term”. This mention has been made […]
dedicated a memorial to the Indian victims of the two Air India crashes in France in the 1950s and 1960s. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently in France, on a trip that also includes stops at UAE and Bahrain. In his departure statement, the Prime Minister said his visit to France reflects the strong strategic […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the students in Bhutan have the power and potential to do extraordinary things, which will impact future generations, as he proposed extensive cooperation between the two countries in new areas such as space and digital payments. Addressing the students of the Royal University of Bhutan in Thimphu, Modi […]
A high-level committee set up to examine the gaps in the country’s security system in the wake of the Kargil War in 1999 had called for appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff as a single-point military adviser to the defence minister. In a major decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced creation of […]
The Prime Minister, according to this source, reminded his ministerial colleagues that being the ruling party, BJP leaders should be aware of the “repercussions” of such a decision and its effect on a section of people. Even as the Union Cabinet proceeded to approve a proposal to honour BJP’s oldest ideological commitment of stripping Jammu […]
The cabinet committee for economic affairs (CCE) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken two major decisions on the sugar sector. The decision of the central government to keep the fair and remunerative price (FRP) for cane unchanged for the 2019-20 season has come as a huge relief to the sugar industry, which was […]
Girraj Beniwal rushed to switch on the television in his Alwar house on Tuesday when his son-in-law, Rajkumar Jatiya, sent him a photo of his daughter frolicking in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lap. “I couldn’t believe my eyes when the photo landed in my WhatsApp. I rushed to switch on the TV to find out […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter on Monday to congratulate the nation after the successful launch of Chandrayaan-2, India’s mission to the moon. First Published: Jul 22, 2019 15:33 IST Source: Read Full Article