Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Four more corona patients die in Uttarakhand

Corona an ‘asur’, can only be killed by divine forces, says priests’ body; seeks temple reopening

7:14 pm May 16, 2020

Mathura (UP): An all-India organisation of priests has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reopen temples and pilgrimage centres to help combat the COVID-19 outbreak, saying the novel coronavirus is an asur (demon) and can only be killed by divine forces. If all temples, shrines and pilgrimage centres are reopened, the coronavirus cannot do any […]

US to donate ventilators to India to fight coronavirus: Trump

1:36 pm May 16, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will donate a lot of ventilators to India to help it fight the “invisible enemy”, moments after he underlined the close partnership between the two countries and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “good friend”. Trump also said the US and India were cooperating to develop […]

Govt to press ahead with PSU stake sale: FM

2nd tranche of eco package to focus on migrant workers, small farmers: FM

9:37 pm May 14, 2020

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the second tranche of economic stimulus package will be for the benefit of migrant workers, street vendors and small farmers. At a press conference, she said 3 crore marginal farmers have already availed Rs 4 lakh crore of loans on concessional rates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Just take me home, mother tells daily wager son

Jharkhand bearing transport fares of migrant workers: CM

8:34 pm May 14, 2020

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday said the state government was bearing the transport costs of migrant workers and would bring back all the labourers stranded outside the state in a “systematic manner”. Jharkhand was making all efforts to bring back 6.85 lakh migrants from the state held up across the country due […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

CAPFs canteens to sell only indigenous products from June 1: Amit Shah

7:21 pm May 13, 2020

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday announced that all canteens of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) like the CRPF and the BSF will sell only indigenous products from June 1 to 50 lakh family members of about 10 lakh personnel In a series of tweets in Hindi, Shah said the decision […]