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TopicNarendra Modi

Topic: Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi is India’s 14th prime minister and has been in power since May 2014. He is the first prime minister to have been born after Independence. Modi is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has served as Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. His Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, though, is in Uttar Pradesh, and Modi has represented this seat since 2014.

Narendra Modi joined the RSS, the BJP’s ideological parent, in the 1970s and joined the BJP in 1987. The following year he was chosen as the party’s general secretary for Gujarat. Modi took oath as Gujarat CM in 2001, after replacing Keshubhai Patel, who was held responsible for the government’s poor response to the Bhuj earthquake. Modi contested his first-ever election in 2002, shortly after which the Gujarat riots fueled controversy over his leadership. The Supreme Court in 2022 gave a clean chit to Modi and 63 others in a plea exploring a larger conspiracy behind the riots.

Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi for not doing ‘kaam ki baat’

PTI -
Gandhi accused the prime minister of running a pro-rich government and ignoring the farmers and employment of the youth in the country. 

Hold convocations every year, HRD ministry tells universities after Kovind nudge

Kritika Sharma -
Universities have pointed out financial and time constraints behind their decision not to hold annual convocations.

Just 13% houses built or under construction, Maharashtra scrambles to meet targets before 2019

Manasi Phadke -
The Devendra Fadnavis government planned to build 6.64 lakh houses under the PMAY scheme but only 86,320 are complete or under construction; government hopes to clear backlog through PPP model scheme.

India to do urgent sweet-talking to soothe Trump seething over Harley Davidson & stents

Jyoti Malhotra -
Commerce minister Suresh Prabhu's trip comes as Trump threatens to undermine the special relationship built over the last decade, underpinned by the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Mr Nice guy is here: For 2019, Modi is being less Modi and more Vajpayee

Shivam Vij -
In the election year, the Prime Minister is unexpectedly projecting a softer image of himself.

Lateral entry into bureaucracy is not a new idea. It’s been around since 2006

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Veerappa Moily in 2008 and a panel headed by former SC judge B.N. Srikrishna made similar suggestions, but neither was implemented by the government.

BJP MPs are complaining about Narendra Modi-Amit Shah style & 2019 is around the corner 

D.K. Singh -
After four years of obsequiousness, many BJP MPs have woken up to their irrelevance in the party’s scheme of things, which centre around Modi’s popularity and Amit Shah’s organisational skill.

Sena scoffs at Maoist plot to target Modi, dubs it ‘laughable’

PTI -
After NCP leader Sharad Pawar, BJP ally Shiv Sena too ridicules letter allegedly planning to eliminate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The so-called non-political RSS is setting the agenda for 2019 elections

Kumar Ketkar -
For the first time, the RSS has come out into the political mainstream. So far the organisation pretended that it was only a cultural body.

6 of the world’s 10 most polluted cities are in India, 3 worse than even Delhi

Alex Gray -
WHO study shows that of the estimated 7 million deaths per year from air pollution, more than 90% happen in low- and middle-income countries, mainly in Asia and Africa.
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