The visit is an opportunity for India to assess of the future of the European project and the challenges in the US-Europe transatlantic relationship.
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Also, when the Saudi Crown Prince visits the UK in the coming weeks, Theresa May must ensure that Britain does not trade away its principles and values.
Indian ships and naval assets can now move across from the Pacific to Singapore, Andamans, Diego Garcia, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Djibouti, onwards to Oman.
Italy is off shoring its Mediterranean migration problem to a former colony, Libya, with the intention of preventing mostly sub-Saharan African migrants from leaving Libya’s shores for Europe.
The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
I am surprised by the article/ comments of some. Only a idiot can write such thing about govt efforts. Can all the problems which are created by people of Varanasi themselves and administration for the last 70 years be solved in 5 years? For constructing a 2 room house its take one year , may be 2. How one can expect the transformation of whole Varanasi in 4 years. Cleaniness, to control stray animals is the responsibility of people too. I found comments of professor most idiotic. Either he has personal hatred for Modi or supporter of Akhilesh.
Despite selective pressitude hatchet job using biased select imbeciles, objective reality says otherwise. It’s hard first city in India where one does not see unsightly web of electric wiring and poles. In Varanasi post Modi these have disappeared. It’s not packaging but wires have been packed underground. Grow up and learn objectivity in reporting!
Our prime minister is doing a good job, but one should know know, without the co operation from locals, it will be never possible to clean the city, I am a frequent visitor to Varanasi, I have seen lot of improvement, it takes years to come to a level, critizing is easy, when u see the population of Varanasi,it’s beyond anybody’s imagination that, it could b done in few years, hope people of Varanasi will help to achieve this task
The real meaning of presstitutes are applied here. Bunch of jokers why always take a negative picture of every thing that Modi does. And to that Idiot professor of BHU Swatch Bharat is not only GOI initiative. What you have done to make it right professor. Any Tom dik and Harry commenting on evetything that government does.
Showcasing Varanasi to foreign dignitaries is important but more important is to make Varanasi a bit more safe and comfortable to lakhs of pilgrims from all over India coming to the city. Who are they? Poor farmers, small traders with unkempt beard, short dhoti and turban, come here with their family in tow, old parents, small children to worship Baba Vishwanath and Sankat Mochan, take a dip in Ma Ganga, in groups of hundreds. They need a roof over their head for a few days and normal hygienic food at reasonable rate. What they get instead is touts everywhere fleecing money, Pandas and UP police physically throwing them out of the sanctum sanctorum of Vishwanath Temple unless they are able to shell out substantial amount.
Is it too much to ask for a few moments of peaceful Darshan of Baba? Is it too difficult to make a few changes in the access route to the Temple to accommodate a few hundred to have peaceful glimpse of Baba from a distance.
In addition to beautification of Ghats can’t a few be earmarked for holy bath and worship with change rooms, toilets for the common pilgrims?
For thousands of years people have been coming despite the immense hardship they face. They will continue to come. A small effort to ameliorate their hardship will spread the message of ‘Acchhe Din’ throughout India much faster than the big bill advertising costing crores.
I am surprised by the article/ comments of some. Only a idiot can write such thing about govt efforts. Can all the problems which are created by people of Varanasi themselves and administration for the last 70 years be solved in 5 years? For constructing a 2 room house its take one year , may be 2. How one can expect the transformation of whole Varanasi in 4 years. Cleaniness, to control stray animals is the responsibility of people too. I found comments of professor most idiotic. Either he has personal hatred for Modi or supporter of Akhilesh.
Despite selective pressitude hatchet job using biased select imbeciles, objective reality says otherwise. It’s hard first city in India where one does not see unsightly web of electric wiring and poles. In Varanasi post Modi these have disappeared. It’s not packaging but wires have been packed underground. Grow up and learn objectivity in reporting!
Our prime minister is doing a good job, but one should know know, without the co operation from locals, it will be never possible to clean the city, I am a frequent visitor to Varanasi, I have seen lot of improvement, it takes years to come to a level, critizing is easy, when u see the population of Varanasi,it’s beyond anybody’s imagination that, it could b done in few years, hope people of Varanasi will help to achieve this task
The real meaning of presstitutes are applied here. Bunch of jokers why always take a negative picture of every thing that Modi does. And to that Idiot professor of BHU Swatch Bharat is not only GOI initiative. What you have done to make it right professor. Any Tom dik and Harry commenting on evetything that government does.
Showcasing Varanasi to foreign dignitaries is important but more important is to make Varanasi a bit more safe and comfortable to lakhs of pilgrims from all over India coming to the city. Who are they? Poor farmers, small traders with unkempt beard, short dhoti and turban, come here with their family in tow, old parents, small children to worship Baba Vishwanath and Sankat Mochan, take a dip in Ma Ganga, in groups of hundreds. They need a roof over their head for a few days and normal hygienic food at reasonable rate. What they get instead is touts everywhere fleecing money, Pandas and UP police physically throwing them out of the sanctum sanctorum of Vishwanath Temple unless they are able to shell out substantial amount.
Is it too much to ask for a few moments of peaceful Darshan of Baba? Is it too difficult to make a few changes in the access route to the Temple to accommodate a few hundred to have peaceful glimpse of Baba from a distance.
In addition to beautification of Ghats can’t a few be earmarked for holy bath and worship with change rooms, toilets for the common pilgrims?
For thousands of years people have been coming despite the immense hardship they face. They will continue to come. A small effort to ameliorate their hardship will spread the message of ‘Acchhe Din’ throughout India much faster than the big bill advertising costing crores.