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Islamabad, Pakistan –  As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third time as his country’s leader on June 9, seven counterparts from neighbouring nations joined a very select audience in marking the moment. The setting — a summer evening, with an orangish dusk sky, and ...

NEW DELHI — In 2016, Narendra Modi faced his first crisis as Indian prime minister.After he made a snap decision to remove large currency notes from circulation — a move aimed at reducing graft — India’s economy went into shock. Poor patients couldn’t pay doctors. Truck drivers, unable to ...

The story of the new government, sworn in on June 9, 2024, can be summed up in ten words: people voted for change, Mr Narendra Modi opted for continuity. The Voters The voters, blessed with common sense, got it right. They rejected the BJP’s model of governance of the ...

BARI (ITALY): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed ways to further strengthen the strategic partnership including in areas of defence, nuclear and space, and exchanged views on key global and regional issues. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the G7 ...

New Delhi, India – On the afternoon of June 4, a crowd of several hundred young men gathered in front of a two-storey house in Mawar village, with a clear view of the Pir Panjal mountains in the background, in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Some of those in the ...

Confident about securing another outright majority, some leaders even said India would become a Hindu nation. The BJP also handed the first set of citizenship certificates under a new Citizenship Amendment Act – a controversial 2019 law which offers citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.However, halfway ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a review meeting of the security situation in the region, wherein he was apprised of the counter-terror efforts being undertaken in the Union Territory. The meeting comes in the wake of four militant attacks in three days in the region. In the ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a meeting on the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) amid back-to-back terror-related incidents in the state. The meeting was attended by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and other senior officials, who provided a comprehensive overview of the ...

Although Pakistan was the only South Asian head of government not invited to the new cabinet’s induction ceremony, Sharif, who controls power in Pakistan again, tweeted his "warm felicitations" to Prime Minister Modi on his re-election. "Let us replace hate with hope and seize the opportunity to shape the ...

Srinagar, June 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Srinagar on June 21 to participate in the International Yoga Day event, official sources said on Wednesday. The PM is expected to participate in a Yoga event to be held at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), on the ...