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The Indian officials are currently in talks with their US counterparts to finalise the schedule of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to the White House later this year, Reuters news agency reported citing a Washington official. According to the report, the dates have not yet been decided. But the possibility…

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that Budget-drafting under the Narendra Modi government is done after an exhaustive exercise of consultations with stakeholders , and that power brokers or lobbyists are not entertained anymore, unlike previously. “You can say there is no excitement about the Budget proposals…

GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that welfare of the deprived and backward sections is the Central government's priority. Modi, during a virtual address at the ‘Krishnaguru Eknaam Akhand Kirtan' in Assam's Barpeta district, also said special provisions have been made in the Union Budget 2023-24 to increase…

It’s known as the “Streisand effect”, said The Hindu (Chennai): try to block information about something (as the actress Barbra Streisand tried to do with photos of her Malibu mansion) and you end up bringing it to the attention of a far wider audience than if you’d let it be. That’s just…

The resolve to see India as a global superpower during the 'Amrit Kaal' is no castle in the air, as it might sound to naysayers. It is a goal, envisioned by visionary Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with a formidable foundational basis and a meticulously designed roadmap to achieve the same.…

Protesters gathered outside BBC on Sunday Burak Bir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Protests took place outside the BBC’s New Broadcasting House yesterday over controversial Narendra Modi documentary India: The Modi Question. Dozens of protesters from Britain’s Indian diaspora gathered outside the BBC HQ in London on Sunday, angered by the…

Business News›News›Politics›Being the foreign secretary was the limit of my ambition, no other PM would have made me minister, says S Jaishankar ANI | 29 Jan 2023, 01:39 PM IST External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on January 28 said that he has never thought of becoming a minister in his…

We are used to seeing governments trying to censor the media. But the Narendra Modi government has done better ― it is censoring thoughtful academic papers written by its own police officers. According to a report in the Indian Express, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah recently attended…

The reactions of university administrations to the BBC’s documentary about Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots show that vice-chancellors have become stooges and spokespersons of the majoritarian regime. Najma Akhtar, the VC of Jamia Millia Islamia, called in the police to prevent students from watching the BBC documentary. The…

New Delhi: The Union government issued over 3,417 orders to block Twitter URLs in 2022 – up from a mere eight times in 2014, when the Narendra Modi-led government came to power, data accessed through Right to Information (RTI) requests showed. This trend, according to RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak, who…