Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has been one of the flagship programmes of PM Narendra Modi. With the PM often urging his ministers to do everything to make it a people’s movement, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently offered a quiet reminder about it.
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who shared the dais with Science Minister Jitendra Singh at the India International Space Conclave Tuesday, said he has been travelling a lot over the last couple of months to attend events and share his space experience.
Suresh Gopi, who shares a bittersweet relation with the Kerala media, received some advice from Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on how to deal with journalists.
Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala John Brittas recently received a surprise when Shah sent an acknowledgement — in Malayalam — for a letter he had sent to the Union Home Minister.
Earlier this year, a team of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had visited Botswana in connection with the import of a new batch of cheetahs to India.
UNION EDUCATION Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Thursday shared an incident about one of his relatives who scored 91% marks in Class 12 board exams but failed to meet the expectations of the parents.
Members of the Opposition in the parliamentary committee on Home Affairs were not on the same page during a meeting on Wednesday.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district for the launch of the ‘Watershed Mahotsav’ Tuesday, chose to forgo the grand reception planned for him, in wake of loss of lives in Delhi blast. In Guntur, which is the parliamentary constituency of his deputy, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, organisers had planned a […]
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district for the launch of the ‘Watershed Mahotsav’ Tuesday, chose to forgo the grand reception planned for him, in wake of loss of lives in Delhi blast.
The PM is learnt to have listened to the first-ever recording of “Vande Mataram” on the vintage record player.
Party leaders in the national capital said it was the central leadership which told the state unit to intensify the attack on the Pinarayi Vijayan government over the issue
BJP MP and star campaigner Manoj Tiwari has released another song for the NDA — ‘Ee Bihar Ba’ — highlighting the key infrastructural projects which materialised under the Nitish Kumar government as well as the intra-alliance camaraderie in the state, party insiders said.
A technical glitch gave way to some hilarious moments in the Supreme Court Tuesday as a lawyer while arguing before a bench presided by Justice B V Nagarathna complained about audio interruption.
Bhupender Yadav steered clear of any judgement on the experiment during an interaction with reporters on Monday
She recalled how her father, more than four decades ago, sold second-hand copies of the same magazine (TIME) on the streets in New Delhi and earned two-dollars a day to raise his family
The service is expected to begin on a pilot run in Delhi-NCR next month, with a full-scale rollout likely from January next year
Union Ministers Amit Shah and Ashwini Vaishnaw are among others joined the Garhwal MP in commemorating a tradition native to the hills of Uttarakhand
AT A meeting chaired by BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday, all party office-bearers wore blue caps with the text ‘Bahujan Samaj Party zindabad’. This was the first time leaders were wearing the cap, introduced so that party members could be easily identified.
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion, Delhi Police brass has directed all district DCPs to collaborate with local news channels and YouTubers to boost publicity of community policing and outreach programmes.
Leader of the Opposition in Kerala V D Satheesan is learnt to have complained that the newly appointed state chief Sunny Joseph was not holding consultations with everyone
Yadav does not want to take any chances with the voters’ list ahead of the 2027 UP Assembly polls
On Sunday, the party also prepared a list of “favourable” constituencies where Gandhi could campaign for the first phase
While there is no official word on Gandhi’s programme in the state, party candidates have been flooding his office with requests to get him to campaign in their constituency
IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh was among the prominent members of the Sikh community in the Capital who gathered at Gurdwara Moti Bagh on Thursday for darshan of the holy Jore Sahib — the footwear of Guru Gobind Singh and his wife Mata Sahib Kaur.
BJP vice president Baijayant Panda appears to be exploring ways to be working on his old connections in the state. While one of his sisters is married into a Tamil family, Panda’s father-in-law, who is from Punjab, can read and write Tamil fluently.


