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TopicPM Narendra Modi

Topic: PM Narendra Modi

Modi speech fact-check: From NRC to detention centres, here’s where PM went wrong

It’s not just Home Minister Amit Shah who has spoken about a nationwide NRC. President Kovind had told a joint sitting of Parliament about it on 20 June 2019.

Does Modi govt know what the endgame of the crisis it has unleashed is?

Modi govt might well have been pleased at first. After all, the angrier liberals, secularists & minorities got, the more successful its divisive gambit would seem.

Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia in India for 5-day visit

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia are on their second five-day visit to India. 

India’s rejection of RCEP trade deal is a sign of weakness

India’s decision is a disappointing window into how much has changed in New Delhi since it became one of the initial movers of the RCEP process.

Grand welcome in Tamil Nadu & plogging ‘photo-op’: Modi fans & critics fuel Twitter hoaxes

Both the hoaxes surrounding PM Modi started circulating on social media as he arrived in Tamil Nadu for the informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Why US-India trade deal didn’t work out on Modi trip & what next 

Trump and Modi were expected to announce the long-awaited trade deal during PM's week-long visit to the US in September. 

Modi, back from US, says will make India ‘useful to the world’

Addressing BJP workers at a felicitation function in Chennai, PM Modi said the world had great expectations from India, and it was upto the 130 crore Indians to fulfill it.

PM Modi meets world leaders to strengthen bilateral ties on sidelines of UNGA

PM Modi arrived in New York for the 74th session of UNGA after delivering a speech at Houston to over 50,000 people of the Indian community with US President Donald Trump.

Kulhads aren’t exactly the eco-friendly alternative to plastic cups you think they are

Scientists say it’s better to use earthen cups than single-use plastics but ‘kulhads’ don’t have small carbon footprint & can take decades to degrade.

No two countries are ‘natural partners’ as India & Bhutan are: PM Modi tells Bhutan’s youth

At the Royal University of Bhutan, PM Modi said that 1.3 billion Indians will not just look on and cheer the people of Bhutan but will also share with them and learn from them.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.