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Sunday, October 6, 2024
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Topic: Modi government

Modi govt wants 2 lakh foreign students by 2022, with some help from Yoga, Ayurveda courses

The initiative, called ‘Destination India’, will seek to streamline the process of foreign admissions in a bid to project the country as a hub of education.

Modi said CAA protests anti-national, just like Indira Gandhi did before declaring Emergency

Modi’s Parliament address on CAA should force protesters to go back to the drawing board. Here are six things they should do to counter the regime.

Ram temple work in Ayodhya to begin in April this year: Ram temple trustee

PM Narendra Modi Wednesday announced that the government has constituted an independent 15-member trust to oversee the construction of the temple in Ayodhya.

India’s defence forces can’t wait for Modi’s $5-trillion economy dream. Slowdown is hurting

Armed forces’ modernisation is languishing for two decades. We need to enhance the defence budget to a sustained rate of 3-4 per cent of the GDP.

European envoys could visit J&K before vote on Kashmir, CAA resolution and India summit

The envoys’ visit, originally scheduled for the summer, could be moved ahead in the light of European Parliament’s joint draft resolution on Kashmir and CAA.

Why I am disappointed with Budget 2020 but also think it’s a realistic one: Gurcharan Das

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should have admitted that Indian economy was in a crisis, and then explained how she planned to get us out of it.

Modi’s swagger is reserved for social policy, but it’s the economy that really needs it

What was sorely needed from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was that she deliver a 'historic' Budget 2020. But Indians got a 'history' budget instead.

8% rise in budget for Jal Shakti, ministry handling Modi dream of piped water for all 

Namami Gange, a flagship scheme of Modi govt aimed at cleaning up the Ganga, saw its allocation increase by Rs 100 crore over 2019-20.

In Budget 2020, govt sets agenda to revise motherhood age to curb maternal mortality

As India progresses, need to look at the age of girls entering motherhood, Nirmala Sitharaman says in her budget speech.

Wealth creation in Economic Survey: Slowdown forces Modi govt to shed ‘suit-boot’ fear?

With “wealth creation” as the central theme of 2020 Economic Survey, Modi govt has harked back to its capitalist orientation in the backdrop of an economic slowdown.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?