The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an excise policy-linked money laundering case on Thursday night and took him to the agency’s headquarters here, officials said. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection to the AAP national convenor...
India has emerged as the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem, a development that Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes will chart the country’s course towards becoming a developed nation by 2047. He noted that the startup scheme initiated a few years ago has scaled new heights, aligning with the ‘2047 Viksit Bharat’ (developed India) roadmap. As of 31...
India has emerged as the world’s third largest startup ecosystem with over 1.25 lakh startups and 110 unicorns, and is charting a roadmap for becoming a developed nation with right decisions taken at the right time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh event, Modi said India’s startup ecosystem is...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday kept up the attack on the INDIA bloc over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Shakti’ remark, saying the opposition alliance displayed its “ill-intention” by declaring to destroy it. The opposition alliance, of which the Congress and the DMK are key constituents, repeatedly insults Hinduism but never targets any other faith,...
Asserting the importance that the BJP-led NDA has given to Kerala in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow here on Tuesday to boost support for its candidates from the state, where the saffron party has historically had no significant electoral victories. The PM’s cavalcade with Modi standing on...
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, while commenting on fresh the summons issued to Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), accused the Delhi chief minister of flouting the law by skipping the summons so far. He said the agency was working independently. The BJP leader said the bail granted to Kejriwal on Saturday was not...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a grand National Democratic Alliance rally ‘Prajagalam’ (the voice of the public), on Sunday evening in Palnadu district. PM Modi, while addressing the people gathered at the rally said that people of Andhra Pradesh have decided to support the NDA’s development agenda in the upcoming polls. He further said, “The...
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva hit out at AAP supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for his ‘rape, robbery’, theft’ comments in connection with the CAA. “Arvind Kejriwal’s language shows his evil face. He has become blind in the appeasement of a specific community to an extent that he is abusing the entire Hindu and...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached out to the Christian community which has a significant presence in this southern district, and also projected Anil K Antony — son of Congress stalwart and former Union Minister A K Antony — as a symbol of the youth. “This is the kind of freshness that is required...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed all “impossible-looking” tasks, be it the abrogation of Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, or the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP), Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said. Shah, a Lok Sabha MP from Gandhinagar, made the remarks on Thursday after virtually attending...