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Modi seeks to boost New Delhi's Indo-Pacific role By Aishwarya KUMAR New Delhi (AFP) May 19, 2023 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Papua New Guinea and Australia on Sunday as New Delhi seeks to counter mounting Chinese influence in both the Indian and Pacific oceans. Western nations regularly…

In response to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for participation from civil society, IIFA has launched the Be Water+ve initiative in partnership with AquaKraft Foundation. IIFA will initiate an aggressive advocacy campaign to educate civil society about water conservation and at the same time work towards on-ground interventions…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday said global giants - from Walmart to Apple, Cisco, NXP and Foxconn - are looking to step up investment in India, creating more job opportunities in the private sector. The move, he said, ties in with the Centre's focus on increasing employment and…

The high-powered selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi nominated Praveen Sood as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a two-year term on Sunday. Sood, a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was appointed Karnataka DGP in January 2020, succeeding Ashit Mohan Prasad, a 1985-batch IPS…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Papua New Guinea on 21-22 May. The visit will focus on the India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) Summit, meeting the Indian diaspora, and signing several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs). The visit is expected to strengthen the bilateral relations between India and Papua New Guinea…

The Congress' decisive victory in Karnataka has given the much-needed "booster dose" to the party and proven that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the politics of divisiveness and polarisation can be defeated, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday. "The prime minister thought he had a conch which was…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government will soon begin a diplomatic campaign to reclaim the Kohinoor diamond and thousands of other treasures taken by Britain during their centuries-long colonial exploits in the Indian subcontinent.  The diplomatic campaign is reportedly dubbed as "reckoning with the past" and is set to be…

In South India's Karnataka state, the Congress party finally managed to halt Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral juggernaut as the country's oldest political party won 136 of 224 seats in the state assembly, according to the latest trends published by Election Commission of India. The win is…

India’s opposition Congress party was heading for victory in a key state Saturday, partial election results showed, defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP a year ahead of national polls. It was set to oust Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party from office in Karnataka, the only southern state where the Hindu…

After the results of assembly polls of three northeastern states were declared on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the election results depict people's faith in democracy, adding that the Northeast is neither far from Delhi nor from ‘our heart’. Prime Minister Modi received a warm welcome at BJP…