There is more twist to the Sushma Swaraj –Lalit Modi saga. Some unexpected and interesting developments took place just hours after one of Sushma Swaraj’s Union Cabinet colleagues, Arun Jaitley came out with a statement in defence of her. Talking of Sushma Swaraj’s help extended to former IPL Commissioner, Lalit Modi, Jaitley said that whatever she had done was in good faith and bonafide. However soon after some documents […]

Here’s what happened yesterday: someone on the internet typed “Top 10 Criminals” into Google’s Image Search and was confronted with an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — right next to American gangster Al Capone and the mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Dawood Ibrahim. It got so crazy that Google apologised to the Prime Minister and now displays this disclaimer when you use the search term in question: These […]

Siraj-ul-Haq, Jamaat-e-Islami party chief announced a 100 crore rupee bounty on the head of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindustan Times reported. Speaking in Rawalkot (PoK), he slammed Pakistan’s attempts to build better ties with India. “I want to say to Modi that you and your agents cannot arrest Salahuddin… And you say whoever will arrest Salahuddin, we will give him Rs 50 crore. I too say that whoever arrests […]

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today called upon the Indian diaspora across the world to unite as a positive global force in the cause of humanity. In his inaugural address at the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, the Prime Minister recalled that exactly 100 years ago, a Non Resident Indian – Gandhi – had returned to India to serve the people. Today, he said, he […]

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made his debut among the world’s most powerful people, ranked 15th on the Forbes list topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin who pipped his US counterpart Barack Obama for a second year in a row. The list of 72 most powerful people in the world also included the names of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani at 36th, ArcelorMittal chairman and CEO Lakshmi […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the ambitious “Make in India” campaign to put the country prominently on the global manufacturing map and, in turn, facilitate the inflow of new technology and capital, while creating millions of jobs. Following up on his Independence Day address call, he kicked off the campaign at a star-studded event where leading industrialists and business leaders from India and abroad pledged to support the […]

Washington: Al Qaeda, which has announced the creation of a separate wing for India, wants to portray Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an enemy of Islam and as such India should take its threat “very seriously”, a well-known American counter-terror expert said on Friday even as the US tried to downplay the terrorist outfit’s capabilities. “This video, the first from (al Qaeda leader Ayman al-) Zawahiri this year, should be […]

India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, celebrated his 64th birthday on Wednesday by hosting President Xi Jinping of China in his home state of Gujarat, as the leaders of Asia’s two giants lay the foundation for a long-term relationship that carries huge stakes for both. It is the first visit of a Chinese president to India in eight years – only the third in history – and the reasons for […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold two days of meetings with President Barack Obama in his first visit to the US since being banned in 2005, US officials have confirmed. Mr Modi will visit the White House on 29-30 September. The two leaders are expected to discuss issues “to expand and deepen the US-India strategic partnership”. Mr Modi was denied a US visa in 2005 after religious riots in […]

The extempore performance that laid out his — and indeed, the country’s — biggest concerns for the country, the prime minister chalked up several, several victories in one go. And it will go received as a significant triumph for the newly elected leader for several reasons. One, he addressed his critics as well as his supporters, asked India not to politicise his Independence Day speech and insisted that the huge […]