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NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Isro after its ‘Bahubali’ rocket LVM-M6 successfully placed US’s new-generation BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite, weighing 6,100 kg, into orbit. It was the heaviest payload to be placed into the low earth orbit (LEO) in LVM3’s launch history — the previous heaviest was the LVM3-M5 communication satellite 03,…
NEW DELHI: The Unnao rape case survivor on Wednesday met leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, a day after the Delhi high court suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the convict in the case.Speaking to the media, she expressed desire to also meet President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hailed Isro‘s successful launch of LVM3-M6, which placed the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into its intended orbit, saying that “India continues to soar higher” further calling the mission a “proud milestone” in the country’s space journey.Congratulating Isro’s scientists and engineers, the prime minister said the achievement underlined India’s…
Some relationships are hard to decipher: full of contradictions, confusing signals, and mood swings. Yet people stick with them, hoping that someday the pieces will click into place. That’s precisely how the India–United States relationship feels like today.Once feted as a natural marriage of the world’s two biggest democracies, relations between New Delhi and Washington…
NEW DELHI: Lalit Modi on Monday shared a video from Vijay Mallya’s birthday party, where he referred to himself and Mallya as the “two biggest fugitives from India”.The video, posted on Lalit Modi’s Instagram account, shows him posing with Mallya and saying, “We are the two biggest fugitive from India.” Modi captioned the post, “Let…
India and New Zealand struck a free trade agreement (FTA) on Monday, marking the end of negotiations that began back in March this year. The agreement was unveiled after a telephone conversation between PM Modi and New Zealand’s PM, Christopher Luxon. During the call, the two leaders described the India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement as…
KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi used a fog-forced virtual rally in Bengal Saturday to pursue two parallel damage-control efforts – shoring up support among Matua voters unsettled by an electoral roll revision and repairing political fallout from his recent “Bankim da” reference in Parliament.PM Modi was to address a public meeting at Taherpur in Nadia district…
GUWAHATI: PM Modi transformed his Guwahati rally on Saturday into a fierce political offensive against Congress, accusing it of “committing a sin” by preparing to join hands with the Muslim League and the British in a pre-Independence conspiracy to make Assam a part of what would later become “East Pakistan”.Modi said Congress had conspired to…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at the previous Congress government in Assam and said that the “development of the state and the Northeast region was never in its priority list.”“Modi government is correcting Congress’s mistakes,” PM Modi said in Guwahati.“My attachment to the soil of Assam, the love and affection…
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi (Photo: Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Congress Rajya Sabha member Sonia Gandhi, reacting to the VB-G RAM G Bill, criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the central government of attacking the interests of the poor by “running a bulldozer over MGNREGA“.Sonia Gandhi alleged that the Modi government, over the past 11 years, has…
