The Centre on Wednesday announced 10,000 new electric buses across 100 cities under the PM e-bus Seva. At a briefing after the Union cabinet meeting, Union I&B minister Anurag Thakur said the PM e-bus seva has been approved by the cabinet to bolster green mobility. The scheme has been allocated 57,613 cores, he added. Out...
Independence Day speech 2023: PM Narendra Modi delivered his 10th consecutive Independence Day speech on Tuesday. Today’s speech is also his last before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. PM Modi started the day by unfurling the country’s national flag at the Red Fort and paying tributes to the freedom fighters. During his speech at Red...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the people of India on Sunday to change their social media display pictures to the tricolour flag as a gesture for the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, considering that Independence Day is only two days away. Modi himself changed his display picture on his official X (formerly Twitter) account and other social media...
India is seeking a consensus among G20 nations against fugitive economic offenders to ensure their faster extradition and asset recovery, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here on Friday. Ahead of the crucial G20 anti-corruption ministerial meeting in Kolkata on Saturday, he said economic offences have been a problem faced by many, especially when offenders flee...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha to repeal the British-era Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023, prescribes capital punishment as the maximum sentence for mob lynching and suggests ten years imprisonment for sexual intercourse...
Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 replacing the ordinance on transfers and postings of senior officers in the Delhi government with 131 votes in favour against 102 Replying to the debate on the contentious bill in Rajya Sabha, Union home minister Amit Shah asserted that...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that his government has changed the perception that the tax paid by citizensis squandered in corruption and said the 16 per cent increase in the number of people filing income tax returns this year showsthe growth of trust in the dispensation. Addressing an event at which he laid...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of 508 railway stations spread across the country virtually on August 6. According to the Ministry of Railways, the redevelopment work is done at an estimated cost of ₹24,470 crore. “Improving passenger amenities is a major focus of the government. The Prime Minister...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to attend the BRICS Summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg on August 22-24 comes as a surprise to those who expected that he will follow the footsteps of Russian president Vladimir Putin and attend the summit virtually rather than physically. Fact is that even though China tries to dominate the BRICS forum,...
The Centre on May 19 had promulgated the ordinance which creates the authority for the transfer and postings of Group A officers in Delhi. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023, the Centre’s ordinance on the control of services in the capital, was passed in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The Centre...