(FE) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally in Bengaluru that marks the culmination of the BJP’s statewide Parivartana Yatra, a call for change held ahead of the coming assembly elections. This is PM Modi’s first big rally this year in the state where assembly elections are expected within months. COMMENTSMore than 3,000 police personnel and an additional 1,200 traffic policemen have been deployed to ensure that the rally and the PM’s speech — which will be held at the Palace Grounds in the heart of the city — goes smoothly.
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(FE) On Monday, all eyes in the Rajya Sabha will be on BJP President Amit Shah. The reason being Shah’s debut speech in Rajya Sabha in which he will move the motion of thanks to the President’s address. Although Shah was elected last year from Gujarat, he will be addressing the Upper House for the first time tomorrow. According to The Indian Express, Shah will have this to say on the motion: “That the Members of the Rajya Sabha assembled in this Session are deeply grateful to the President for the Address which he has been pleased to deliver to…
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that every citizen of the country must contribute for the welfare of the nation and country will prosper when women, youth and farmers are given their due. He was addressing the gathering at the second anniversary of Swarna Bharat Trust and to inaugurate Mega Health Camp on the occasion of World Cancer Day, in Atkur, Andhra Pradesh today. The judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice L. Nageswara Rao, the Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Dr. Kodela Sivaprasad, the Minister for Health and Medical Education, Andhra Pradesh,…
(PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said the BJP government in the state had, in ten months, achieved development goals which were not achieved by the former BSP and SP dispensations during their long tenures. Addressing a public gathering here, he attacked the Congress, the SP and the BSP for allegedly exploiting and dividing voters through caste politics and appeasement to suit their needs. Adityanath said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a very clear message against appeasement policies. The chief minister said the BJP government in the state had achieved development goals in the last ten months…
(Hindustan) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी आज बेंगलुरु में भाजपा की एक रैली को संबोधित करेंगे। यह रैली पूरे कर्नाटक में 90 दिनों तक चली नवनिमार्ण यात्रा के पूरे होने के अवसर पर आयोजित की जा रही है। मोदी एक नवंबर को शुरू हुई इस तीन माह की यात्रा के संपन्न होने पर आयोजित रैली को 28 जनवरी को ही संबोधित करने वाले थे, लेकिन उनके व्यस्त रहने की वजह से रैली चार फरवरी के लिए टाल दी गई। आगामी विधानसभा चुनाव को देखते हुए, भाजपा ने इस यात्रा का आयोजन किया था और पार्टी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह ने इस यात्रा को…
(ET) Solar tariffs rose sharply from their lowest level in the latest solar auction of 860 MW conducted by Karnataka’s Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL). The lowest price was Rs 2.94 per unit, way above the winning tariffs of Rs 2.47 and Rs 2.44 per unit at the last two auctions in Rajasthan in December and May last year respectively. Though Karnataka gets lower solar radiation than Rajasthan and the winning tariff was expected to be consequently higher, the 50 paise per unit rise is striking. It confirms the view of many developers and lenders that bidding in the last…
(DNA) Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday that Pakistan did not have the strength to separate Kashmir from India.”Our neighbour is Pakistan. They are always trying to divide India or trying to create havoc in our country. They say that they will separate Kashmir from India. But they do not have the strength to separate Kashmir from us,” said Rajnath Singh during a public rally here. He further said Kashmir was India’s and would remain theirs. “Kashmir hamara tha, hamara hai, aur hamara hi rahega,” he said. Speaking on the upcoming assembly polls, Singh said if Bharatiya Janata Party…
(DJ) प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने कहा है कि सरकार की एक्ट ईस्ट नीति पूर्वोत्तर को ध्यान में रखकर बनाई गई है। पीएम मोदी ने कहा कि यह नीति भारत के पूर्वोत्तर क्षेत्र के आसियान देशों सहित अन्य देशों के लोगों से आपसी सम्पर्क, और व्यापारिक संबंध बढ़ाने का माध्यम है। प्रधानमंत्री आज गुवाहाटी में वैश्विक निवेशक सम्मेलन में एडवांटेज असम के उद्घाटन समारोह को संबोधित कर रहे थे। उन्होंने कहा कि असम आसियान के लिए भारत का एक्सप्रैस वे है, यह केवल एक कथन नहीं, बल्कि व्यापक दृष्टिकोण है। प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा कि पूर्वोत्तर राज्यों का विकास देश के समग्र…
(LiveMint) Highlighting “path breaking” economic reforms undertaken by his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India’s growth story will further pick up speed when there is an all-round development of the north-east. Inaugurating the two-day ‘Global Investors Summit’ hosted by Assam, he stressed on the importance of ‘Act East Policy’ in the Centre’s aim of achieving balanced and fast-paced growth of the north-eastern region. “We have created the Act East Policy and the Northeast is at the heart of it. “The Act East Policy requires increased people to people contact, trade ties and other relations with countries on…
(ET) Five major oil and natural gas PSUs would set up a joint company for a 1500 km gas pipeline at an estimated cost of Rs 6000 crore stretching from Guwahati to Tinsukia via Numaligarh to supply gas to the NE states, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today. The five PSUs that would form the company are ONGC, Oil India Limited, Indian Oil Corporation, Numaligarh Refinery Limited and GAIL.”The pipeline would connect Guwahati, Numaligarh and Tinsukia in Assam to supply gas to Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. This pipeline would truly make Assam advantageous,” Pradhan told…