Bhopal, June 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav launched a blistering attack on the Congress party on Saturday, accusing its leadership of weakening India’s democratic foundations and undermining national interests. He invoked Swami Vivekananda’s vision of the 21st century as India’s century, contrasting it with what he described as the “indecisive governance” of the Manmohan Singh era.Yadav said he often wondered how such a vision could be realised if the “weak and …
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New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Party-hopping in the political arena is a phenomenon witnessed since long where various reasons make political leaders exit one organisation for another, yet most today will fail to match the frequency of transit by two names from Haryana who were said to have influenced the coinage of “Aya Ram, Gaya Ram”. It was the late 1960s, much before the anti-defection laws came into being, when some legislators from the state, such as Hira Nand Arya and Gaya Lal, executed their …
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi and L. Murugan, on Wednesday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s record for longest and continuously serving head of an elected Indian government, saying his “tenure is not only historic” but also reflects the work done for the people.Speaking to IANS, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said: “Prime Minister Modi has completed 4,399 days, breaking the record of late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. That is indeed a record, because a person from…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Conclave on Wednesday, drew a sharp contrast between India’s economic past –often described as the “Hindu growth rate” of sluggish 3–4 per cent — and the present accelerated pace achieved under the NDA since 2014. One of the defining achievements of the NDA’s twelve years in power has been liberating the nation from what Prime Minister Narendra Modi described as the Congress’ “web …
Bengaluru, June 10 (IANS) Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, congratulating him on completing what he described as 4,399 consecutive days in office and becoming the “longest-serving elected Prime Minister” in India’s history.Taking to social media, Yediyurappa stated, “Today marks a historic milestone in Bharat’s democratic journey as Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji becomes the longest-serving elected P…
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) When historian Ramachandra Guha remarked that he did not believe Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was equipped to handle major national challenges such as an energy crisis or a war, he gave voice to a question that has lingered in Indian politics for years. The significance of the observation lay less in the remark itself and more in who made it. Guha is hardly known for being sympathetic to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the BJP. His criticism of the government has been co…
Shillong, June 4 (IANS) Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday said that the Ministry of DoNER and the North Eastern Council (NEC) have played a pivotal role in transforming the Northeast into a major driver of India’s growth story through sustained investments in infrastructure, connectivity and development planning.Addressing the 73rd Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) in Shillong, Scindia said the vision laid down by for…
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) On this day in 2014, Tapan Sikdar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart who scripted history by winning the Dumdum Lok Sabha constituency twice, the first party leader to do so in West Bengal, passed away in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. The name is relevant now, with renewed efforts to relocate a mosque, reportedly 136 years old, from within the operational area of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. Sikdar had long advocated its rem…
Chennai, May 30 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nainar Nagenthran on Saturday renewed his party’s call for the speedy implementation of river-linking projects across India. He asserted that interconnecting major river systems is critical to addressing the country’s growing water crisis and ensuring equitable distribution of water resources among states.In a statement, Nagenthran highlighted the importance of the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project, a flagship initiative …
Ulaanbaatar, May 30 (IANS) Underscoring shared Buddhist heritage, the holy relics of the chief disciples of the Buddha — Arahant Sariputta and Arahant Mahamoggallana — arrived in the Mongolian capital on Saturday afternoon for a 10-day public exposition at the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery on the occasion of Mongolian Buddha Purnima.The relics, which enjoy the status of the Head of State in terms of protocol and security, arrived in Ulaanbaatar by a special Indian Air Force (IAF) flight from …