Prime Minister Narendra Modi

This Week in Explainers: How India joined elite aircraft carrier club

Perhaps no other project has been a better example of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Aatmanirbhar' push than the INS VIkrant. But how did India join the elite club comprising the US, the Uk, Italy, France, China and Russia of countries that can make their own carriers? All this and much, much more in our weekly roundup

How Kibithoo, India’s first village, shows a shift in geostrategic perception of border space

India’s competitiveness in response to China’s infrastructural power along the McMahon Line has unsettled the latter and its expansionist proclivities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates newly married couple Rakul Preet Singh and Jackky Bhagnani, actress reacts

Rakul Preet Singh and actor-producer Jackky Bhagnani tied the knot on Wednesday, February 21, in Goa in the presence of close friends and family members

Why India should make hay while the sun shines

The government estimates India's solar energy potential to be around 5,000 trillion kilowatts per hour per year. Even if a fraction of this is captured, it would be sufficient to meet all of the country’s power requirements

Why Indian Navy is a preferred partner in Indo-Pacific

PM Modi's policies of ‘Act East’, ‘Neighbourhood First', and ‘Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR)’ have been extremely successful; they have generated deep confidence among regional and global powers

BAPS Mandir in Abu Dhabi: The idols inside the temple revealed

The idols of deities include Lord Ram and Sita, Lord Shiva and Parvati, Lord Jagannath, Lord Krishna, Lord Swaminarayan, Tirupati Balaji and Lord Ayappa. The BAPS mandir is the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi and the largest in the Gulf

FirstUp: Indonesia goes to polls, PM to inaugurate Abu Dhabi mandir... Today's news

Indonesia is going to the polls today to pick a successor to president President Joko Widodo. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to make history by inaugurating the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. Ashok Chavan, the ex-Congress stalwart, will file his Rajya Sabha nomination for the BJP

Modi in Abu Dhabi: How India-UAE ties have gone from strength to strength under the PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first trip to the UAE in August 2015 — the first by an Indian prime minister in over three decades. Now, the two countries have a bilateral trade of about $85 billion and the UAE is also among the top four investors in India in terms of FDI

FirstUp: PM Modi in Goa, Nawaz Sharif to hold rally... Today's big stories

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Goa to inaugurate several developmental projects. The Reserve Bank of India’s three-day monetary policy committee meet begins today. Nawaz Sharif will hold a PMLN rally on the final day of election campaigning. Here's a guide to today's big stories

'Nehru thought Indians are lazy and less intelligent': PM Modi in Lok Sabha

Quoting excerpts from Nehru's speech, Modi said, 'Let me read what Prime Minister Nehru had said from the Red Fort. 'Indians generally do not have the habit of working very hard, we do not work as much as the people of Europe or Japan or China or Russia or America'