The allocation for outreach programmes by the planetarium saw a dip after 2022. From Rs 29-31 lakh, it went down to Rs 16 lakh in the year 2023-24, and then just Rs 11 lakh in 2024-25.
Prime Minister’s Museum and Library is a renovated version of Nehru Museum, the first PM's house for 16 years until his death in 1964. Judging by the footfall, PMML is a big hit.
There is something to be said about the Narendra Modi-era museums and his push for big-is-best, gizmo-laden, dazzling interactive spaces for museum-starved Indians.
PM Modi inaugurated Rs 271 crore the Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya — Museum of Prime Ministers — Thursday. Exhibits range from civil nuclear agreement and Pokhran, to Bofors and Emergency.
Rs 271 cr museum, spread over 10,491 sq m in Delhi's Teen Murti complex, incudes holograms, virtual reality, computerised kinetic sculptures. It will be inaugurated on 14 April.
Beyond leaders’ speeches, there’s not much of parliamentary history. For instance, what was the mood in Lok Sabha when Vajpayee lost confidence motion by one vote?
It will feature all past and future prime ministers of India, including Narendra Modi, but will not have Jawaharlal Nehru.
The Narendra Modi government’s decision...
Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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