Pretoria (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting South Africa on the last leg of his 4-day African tour, declared that ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ belonged to South Africa as much as he belonged to India. “This visit is an opportunity to pay homage to two of the greatest human souls to have ever walked this earth- Mahatma […]
There were times when growing urbanisation was thought to spell trouble. Urbanisation has to be looked upon as opportunity. Cities have the capacity to mitigate poverty and people from the rural areas migrate to the cities as it is here that they find employment opportunity. This capacity and potential of cities has to be exploited” […]
New Delhi Dated 23rd June (PTI): Government announces reforms in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the key sectors of Defence, Aviation, Pharmaceuticals and Food Processing. The Prime Minister. Mr.Narendra Modi has expressed confidence,that with this decision the Indian market wouldopen up for FDI, and that in turn would boost the employment generation opportunities in the country. […]
The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) was officially released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. The Plan has been prepared following the UN guidelines. The stated objective of the Central Government is to stay well prepared to face any natural or man-made exigency and minimize the loss of life. And post disasters, arrange speedy […]
The Union Cabinet has cleared the proposal of granting the payment bank status to the post office. This historic decision was taken by the cabinet committee on economic affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This bank of the postal department, to be known as the ‘India Post Payment Bank’ will, apart from making available […]
The Central Government of India is considering strong measures to restrain fraudulent activities of scammers like Sahara; who are duping millions of investors of their hard earned savings. The ‘Ponzi Scheme’ scams lure people, particularly from rural and semi-rural areas, into investing their savings by promising fat returns. At the instance of Prime Minister Narendra […]
Rajya Sabha’s 53 members of various parties were bid a farewell on account of their term ending on 30 June 2016. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi while addressing farewell speech to these retiring members expressed his disappointment of not having passed the GST bill in Rajya Sabha during their tenure. He also opined that – “Had […]