New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 20 said the second wave of the coronavirus had hit India like a storm but appealed to states to use lockdowns only as the last resort. In his address to the nation, the prime minister stressed self-discipline to fight the infection, urgingContinue Reading
New Delhi: As India continues to register a spike in cases of coronavirus, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on April 10 appealed to the protesting farmers at the Delhi borders to call off their months-long agitation, saying that the government is ready for a discussion as soon as theyContinue Reading
Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 andContinue Reading
Kochi: The BJP reached out to minority Christians in poll-bound Kerala on March 1 with senior party leader and deputy chief minister of Karnataka C N Ashwath Narayan meeting a senior Catholic priest seeking to “gain the confidence” of the community. Besides Narayan, BJP state chief K Surendran, who isContinue Reading
New Delhi: In a meeting with Catholic cardinal on January 19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he would not be able to help in the issue of Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy’s incarceration at Taloja Jail in Maharashtra. “When we brought it up in the meeting, the Prime MinisterContinue Reading
Surat: At least fifteen people were killed after a truck ran over them in Kosamba city in Surat, Gujarat, ANI reported on January 19. “All the deceased are laborers and they hail from Rajasthan,” the news agency reported quoting police. Six others were also injured in the incident. They areContinue Reading
By Rosamma Thomas Pune: The UN has published a letter its special rapporteurs had written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the closure of the Amnesty International’s work in the country. They had offered the Indian government 60 days to respond to their October 21, 2020, letter where theyContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: With differences between Orthodox and Jacobite factions in widening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will talk to both groups to find a lasting solution to some issues, said Mizoram Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai. The governor, also hailing from Kerala, said he had briefed the prime minister about all issuesContinue Reading
By Matters India New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among those mourning the death of a Spanish Jesuit who contributed a new style of writing in Gujarati and translated many mathematical concepts into that Indian language. Father Carlos Gonzalvez Valles died November 9 in Madrid, capital of Spain. TheContinue Reading
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 20 cautioned Indians to not forget that the lockdown may be over but the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is still around. “This is not the time to be careless. This is not the time to think that corona isContinue Reading
