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Topic: PM 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.

Sukhoi Su-57 on agenda of India-Russia defence talks during Putin’s visit

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According to Russian state media, 10 intergovernmental documents and more than 15 agreements and memorandums are being prepared for signing.

From a hospice in Jerusalem to ‘central pillar’ of development, revisiting India-Palestine age-old ties

Debdutta Chakraborty -
In his message, PM Modi says it is important that the Palestinians are able to lead a normal life. Terrorism must be condemned & development prioritised, he asserts.

Putin’s India visit tests New Delhi’s US–Russia balancing act

Bloomberg News -
For India, the Russian President’s visit comes as sanctions and US pressure have curbed an energy trade that has been expedient for its economy.

PM Modi meets Bengal BJP MPs in Parliament, says SIR a ‘purification’ exercise

Neelam Pandey -
Meanwhile, Mamata called SIR a 'politically-driven exercise'. Last week, TMC MPs met chief election commissioner linking deaths of at least 39 people including 4 BLOs in Bengal to SIR.

Nashik’s municipal corporation plans to raise Rs 2 billion with second round of selling bonds

Bloomberg News -
Nashik joins a small group of local governments that have tapped India’s nascent municipal bond market. Officials have promoted the market as a key piece of PM Modi’s plan to improve urban infrastructure.

India’s quiet deregulation on quality control is a relief to its friends

Bloomberg Opinion -
Politicians should remember that nobody in the country was blaming them for the availability of the occasional sub-standard product.

Putin to embark on state visit to India from 4-5 December

ANI -
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit and hold talks with PM Modi, according to an official statement by the Ministry of External Affairs Friday.

Modi holds roadshow in Udupi ahead of Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana

ANI -
Several people lined the way, waving flags of the BJP and the Tiranga as Modi drove past. The PM will also inaugurate the Suvarna Teertha Mantapa during his visit.

PM Modi inaugurates Indian space start-up Skyroot’s Infinity Campus, unveils rocket Vikram-I

ANI -
The facility will feature about 200,000 square feet of workspace for designing, developing & testing multiple launch vehicles, with a capacity to build 1 orbital rocket every month.

Internal security, anti-Naxal strategy on agenda at DG-IG police conference in Raipur

ANI -
The 60th annual national conference, being held for the first time in Chhattisgah capital, is likely to be attended by PM Modi.
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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

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MGNREGA was democratic state-building. VB-GRAMG turns welfare back to mai-baapism

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Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

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India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

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Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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