Tag: Prime Minister of India

Last Updated: June 23, 2023, 04:55 ISTWashington D.C., United States of America (USA)PM Modi addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy listen behind him in Washington. In his address to the Joint Meeting of the ...

Hundreds of activists are working to challenge the delicate choreography of controversial Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first state visit to the U.S. ― while risking backlash from the authoritarian strains within Modi’s movement, which are often hostile to criticism of their leader.Modi, who arrived in the U.S. on ...

NEW DELHI: India is battling one of the world’s highest coronavirus caseloads, its worst-ever economic slump, shuttered factories, farmer protests and the deadliest border fighting with China in decades. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to remain as popular as ever. Opinion polls in Bihar, where from October 28 ...

NEW DELHI: Soon after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's criticism of the Union government on its handling of Covid-19, condition of Muslims and treatment meted to Indian citizens from the Northeast on a Pakistan-based platform, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rechristened Rahul Gandhi as Rahul Lahori. BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra ...

NEW YORK: Hours after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the Kashmir issue in the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, India promptly responded to Khan's comments and requested the United Nations for the floor to exercise Right to Reply in response to Pakistan's statements. Indian delegate ...

NEW DELHI: In what is certain to further destabilise Indo-Pak relations, Pakistan has denied visa to Indian diplomat Jayant Khobragade, rejecting his appointment as India's chargé d'affaires in Islamabad. Khobragade's name had been officially proposed in June this year. In the same month, India had also further scaled down ...

NEW DELHI: Amid border tensions with China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that Indian soldiers gave a befitting reply to those who tried to pose a challenge to the country's sovereignty, be it at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) or the Line of Control (LoC). "From ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unfurl the national flag and deliver his seventh consecutive Independence Day speech from the iconic Red Fort on Saturday. According to a Defence ministry statement, the prime minister will also receive the Guard of Honour contingent, consisting of one officer and 24 ...

NEW DELHI: Scaling up testing capacity, over seven lakh samples have been examined for Covid-19 in a day, taking the cumulative tests conducted so far to 2,41,06,535, the Union health ministry said on Sunday. The number of recoveries too has surged to 14,80,884 with 53,879 coronavirus patients having recuperated ...

NEW DELHI: Thirteen districts in eight states and Union territories reporting Covid-19 mortality higher than the national average were advised by the Centre on Saturday to address the issues of low testing and delay in test results, and ensure timely hospitalisation. In view of reports from some areas that ...