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Topic: PM Modi

Modi tears into Congress over AI summit protest. ‘Turned global event into arena for naked, dirty politics’

The summit was not a BJP event, Modi said in Meerut, adding that the protest by Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers at the India AI Impact Summit violated the dignity of a national event.

In pictures: Brazilian President Lula’s ceremonial welcome in New Delhi

New Delhi: Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received a ceremonial welcome at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, hosted by President Droupadi Murmu...

Ahead of Bengal polls, culture wars play out between TMC & BJP, this time over mystic Ramakrishna

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she was ‘shocked again’ that PM Modi referred to Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as 'Swami', instead of ‘Thakur’. BJP said it was a mark of respect.

‘India to attract investments worth $200 billion in data centres’ — Vaishnaw at AI Summit

India’s ambitions to be known as a prominent data partner also became clear after the Union Budget, which introduced tax incentives for data centre development.

Trump theatre diplomacy, T20 & mother of all trade deals—Sergio Gor’s 1st month as US envoy

At a time when India-US relations were at their frostiest in decades, the youngest ever American envoy to India drove into the embassy compound in a BMW with flashing blue & red lights.

India must treat US trade deal as a temporary reprieve. It is not for keeps

Trump cannot be relied on to understand India’s sensitivities, especially on our long-standing relationship with Russia.

Modi to shift to his new office in Seva Teerth tomorrow as PMO moves from South Block

PM to unveil Kartavya Bhavan-1 & 2 as well. Seva Teerth will also house National Security Council Secretariat and Cabinet Secretariat.

‘Not ashamed?’: Rahul mounts fierce attack on India-US trade deal in LS, says Modi ‘sold the nation’

The PM has sold India to Americans because they are choking him & they have got a grip on his neck, he says, reasserting that Modi is 'compromised'.

Centre revises Vande Mataram version adopted by Constituent Assembly, Oppn slams ‘rewriting of history’

MHA order states that when both national song and anthem are played together, Vande Mataram will be played first, with everyone required to stand at attention.

In a first since 1987, Oppn seeks to remove Speaker, accuses Om Birla of being ‘blatantly partisan’   

Oppn notice says Birla’s remark that he told Modi not to attend LS last Wednesday based on ‘concrete information’ that Congress MPs planned ‘some unexpected act’ was ‘false’, ‘derogatory’.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.