New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an official statement said. Bezos, who is in India for a visit, had earlier termed India an amazing country, which is full of opportunities and boasts of people who are hard-working, vibrant and have a zest to […]
New Delhi Prime Minister NarendraModi yesterday symbolically wielded the broom in Dalit colony where Mahatma Gandhi once stayed to launch a unique nationwide campaign which seeks to change Indians’ mindset vis-a-vis hygiene and clean up the country in five years. In a spirited speech near the India Gate monument a short while later, Modi told […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi A matriarch in Maharashtra adopts over one thousand orphan children; another in Rajasthan becomes the youngest Sarpanch of her native village with an MBA, leaving a lucrative corporate career behind; and yet another 23 year old becomes the first Kashimiri woman to develop an android app for the people of her […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi Odisha borders on the Bay of Bengal. The eastern part, close to the sea is more prosperous, with a lot of tourist locations and religious places. The western part is a hilly and forested area, generally drought prone. It is a predominantly tribal belt. However, the western part of the state […]
Gurgaon, Oct 2 (IANS) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and HRD minister Smriti Irani seeking their intervention into the immolation attempt by a college girl here. ABVP activists at a meeting in sector 12 demanded high-level inquiry into the self-immolation attempt by Pinky Chauhan a student of the […]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India drive received mixed response Thursday in Odisha. While central government offices organised the cleaning drive, the state government, its ministers, and officials preferred to stay away from the campaign. Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the campaign in state capital Bhubaneswar and wielded the broom, symbolically, […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) It was a sunny, warm Thursday in the national capital with the maximum temperature settling three notches above average at 36.7 degree Celsius. The Met office has forecast a partly cloudy Dussehra Friday. “The sky would be partly cloudy Friday,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The maximum and […]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off his Maharashtra assembly election campaign with a weekender rally in Mumbai, party sources said Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party rally will be addressed by Modi Saturday evening 7 p.m. at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in south Mumbai. Top state and central BJP leaders are expected […]
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Forget the ice bucket challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday started a similar chain, nominating actors Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Anil Ambani among nine people to spread the message of Clean India. Modi, launching the Clean India Campaign Thursday, nominated nine eminent personalities to take […]
Bangalore, Oct 1 (IANS) Indian-born Stanford University professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and Indian techie Himanshu Asnani, pursuing research in mathematics at Stanford, will be honoured in Washington DC Thursday by the US-based Marconi Society. Paulraj, 69, is the winner of the Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive […]