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On May 14, as the Lok Sabha elections were underway, News18 anchor Rubika Liaquat asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why he had referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children” in his election speeches.Modi’s remarks had been widely reported – and criticised. As Scroll reported, the ...

Family nepotism causing discontent among party ranks, resignations By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This might be stretching it a bit, but the presence of two daughters of note at the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as India's Prime Minister for the third time in a row led to talk that ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Sunday, becoming only the second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru to secure a third consecutive term.Along with Modi, who took oath in the name of God, senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin ...

NEW DELHI: About 50 people from the transgender community have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and the new cabinet of ministers to them give blessings. Before the ceremony, BJP MP and former Social Justice and Empowerment minister Virendra Kumar felicitated the community ...

New Delhi, Jun 8: Seven leaders of neighbouring nations barring Pakistan, but including the currently-estranged Maldives, will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi on Sunday evening. The leaders of Bangladesh and Seychelles will arrive on Saturday while the ones of Bhutan, Nepal, Mauritius, Nepal and Sri ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will arrive in Delhi on Saturday, the first of the foreign dignitaries from the neighbourhood invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his swearing-in ceremony on Sunday evening. According to sources, Ms. Hasina, who ...

BEIJING: China on Thursday protested to India over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social media statement that he looked forward to having closer ties with Taiwan, insisting that New Delhi should resist Taiwan authorities’ “political calculations.” China views Taiwan as a rebel province that must be reunified with the mainland, ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Narendra Modi as the prime minister, reported The Times of India on Thursday.The ceremony is expected to take place on June 8, according to reports.In the just-concluded Lok Sabha ...

BARUIPUR (WB): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the Trinamool Congress will complain to the Election Commission if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meditation in Kanyakumari is televised, claiming that it would be a violation of the election Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Modi is scheduled to ...