Days after the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry celebrated three years of its street vendors loan scheme, PM SVANidhi, a delegation of NASVI met Hardeep Puri on Friday to raise some concerns with the scheme, while otherwise appreciating its implementation.
He has been visiting science facilities to acquaint himself with his ministry.
With Rahul Gandhi abroad, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will start the party’s campaign in Madhya Pradesh on June 12. But the choice of the location is interesting: She will address a rally in Jabalpur, the heart of Mahakoshal region.
The marathon meeting has set off rumours about major changes in party organisation in several state units of the BJP.
Satish Poonia has been replaced by C P Joshi as BJP's Rajasthan unit president.
On Sunday, Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel visited Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga temple in Pune district and after performing the rituals at the shrine, he undertook a cleanliness drive at the temple complex.
Hyderabad airport was full of hustle and bustle on Friday as foreign delegates reached the city for the third health working group meeting of G20.
Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan shares a special bond with Shoron village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar — a khap panchayat was held there on Thursday to discuss the ongoing wrestlers’ protest.
Now that the Karnataka Assembly polls are over, many Congress leaders are wondering what is holding back party chief Mallikarjun Kharge from constituting the Congress Working Committee.
Now that the mission has been extended by a year, there is a renewed focus on cities that are lagging behind in terms of the completion rate.
The OTT giant has been asked to review the matter.
Several MPs were seen taking photos and videos of the new Lok Sabha chamber during the inauguration ceremony. Some were also clicking selfies with each other and with Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he was meeting them after the event was over.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted a video of the new Parliament on Friday and asked followers to share the video with their own voice-over on social media, some Union ministers shared the video without any commentary.
On the inaugural day, he shook a leg with actor Ram Charan on Naatu Naatu, the song from the film RRR that bagged an Oscar award recently, and on the concluding day, he was quite vocal in supporting India's presidency of G20.
Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud usually delivers his speeches in English. But on Wednesday, he chose to address the gathering at the inauguration of the new High Court campus in Ranchi in Hindi.
Principal Secretary to the PM, P K Mishra, is in Washington.
Dr Jitendra Singh had an interesting assignment on Monday: to speak on films and entertainment at the G20 summit in Srinagar, which he inaugurated with Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy.
Earlier, Scindia's move to remove the reference to the Congress party from his Twitter profile was the first indication of his plans to quit the party.
Former Minister of State for Law and Justice S P Singh Baghel on Friday took charge as MoS, Health and Family Welfare, in the presence of Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan.
Women’s participation has traditionally been very low in the country's shipping and waterways sector — a trend that has not really changed over the decades.
Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav showed his ease with words at a book launch function, organised by the RSS, on Tuesday. Despite the programme’s length, Yadav remained attentive throughout, taking notes and responding with gestures of appreciation.
Minister of State for I&B, L Murugan — who led the Indian delegation was seen walking the red carpet in a traditional Tamil attire of veshti.
During his interaction with the Indian community in Sweden's Stockholm, Jaishankar was asked whether, in this age of globalisation, the West will start eating ‘paani puri’ instead of hamburgers.
Eric Garcetti, has started exploring the regional cuisines served at various state ‘bhawans’ in the capital.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in his address at the G7 health ministers’ meeting in Tokyo on Saturday will promote India as a medical tourism destination.





