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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicPrime Minister's Office

Topic: Prime Minister's Office

PM CARES to fund 2 Covid hospitals in Bihar ahead of polls, opposition says ‘too late’

In a tweet, PMO says two 500-bed makeshift hospitals will come up in Patna and Muzaffarpur, which will go a long way in improving Covid care in Bihar.

Ram Mandir construction could begin in August, PMO given choice of 2 dates for bhoomi poojan

Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust to increase height of proposed temple in Ayodhya and tweak the design, expects to complete it in 3-3.5 years.

Two senior IAS officers in PMO appointed to World Bank, World Trade Organisation 

While IAS officer Rajiv Topno will serve as senior advisor in World Bank, Brajendra Navnit will be ambassador to the Permanent Mission for India (PMI) at WTO. 

New PMO faces and 11 non-IAS joint secretaries in Modi govt’s 3rd lockdown reshuffle

Modi govt has increasingly sought to empanel non-IAS officers at senior positions in the government, in a bid to break their stranglehold on the bureaucracy.

PMO refuses to share details on black money in spite of CIC orders

The Prime Minister’s Office has refused to share details on the amount of black money brought back from abroad citing a provision of the RTI Act.

Only 19% of India’s public authorities get ‘A’ grade for sharing mandatory information

Of India’s 838 public authorities, Central Information Commission has given 'E' grade to 35% because they don't share mandatory information.

PMO says RTI plea seeking details of Raghuram Rajan’s report on bad loans is a roving enquiry

Praveen Kumar, under secretary at the PMO, said that the information sought does not come under the definition of information in the RTI Act.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.