These aspirational districts have now become "inspirational districts", he said  Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the launch of a week-long programme for Aspirational Blocks titled ‘Sankalp Saptaah', at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Aspirational Districts Programme that brought change in 112 districts will form the basis of a programme to uplift aspirational blocks, adding that he will be back next year to review its success.

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Says there is clamour for change in year-end state elections  Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chhattisgarh BJP President Arun Sao waves at supporters as he arrives for the 'Parivartan Mahasankalp' rally, in Bilaspur, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (PTI Photo) Raipur : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he could sense a public clamour for change in Chhattisgarh to facilitate the return of the BJP to power in the state in the year-end Assembly elections. Addressing a massive public rally in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, marking the end of the 16-day "Parivartan Yatra", a mass outreach campaign launched by the BJP in the state on September 12, Mr Modi said, 'The enthusiasm I have noticed among the people here clearly demonstrates that a change is in the air in Chhattisgarh'.

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Will it prove to a be a season of faith's perfection, of restoring primal glory TUKKUGUDA : Exactly seventy-five years after, to the date, the Congress party pantheon from Delhi and other parts of India, put their focus on Hyderabad, and with means vastly different, but with an eerie similarity in the objectives and ends, came forth to herald a season of hope of a change of regime, of victory, and of unleashing a welfare state befitting the real reason for which they had created a separate Telangana nearly a decade ago.

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PTI Published : Sep 17, 2023, 1:15 am IST Updated : Sep 17, 2023, 1:20 am IST The prime minister himself will be part of the launch of several development initiatives on his birthday  Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI) New Delhi: The BJP will reach out to different sections of society and organise various welfare activities across the country as it launches 'Sewa Pakhwara' (fortnight of service) to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 73rd birthday on Sunday. The exercise will continue till October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a practice the BJP has been following annually for the past several years.

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Free speech not absolute right, must be tempered with proper info: HC Chennai, New Delhi: The Madras High Court on Saturday observed that Sanatana Dharma is a set of eternal duties, including duty to the nation, king, parents and gurus, while remarking that casteist notions and untouchability were brought in while collating the ‘dharma' from various literary texts. 'Should not a citizen love his country? Is he not under duty to serve his nation? Shouldn't the parents be cared for?' Justice N.

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THE ASIAN AGE WITH AGENCY INPUTS Published : Sep 10, 2023, 1:54 am IST Updated : Sep 10, 2023, 2:05 am IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India's presidency ofthe bloc has become a symbol of ‘inclusion', both within the country and beyond  Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment & India-Middle East-Europe Economics Corridor event during the G20 Summit 2023, in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (PTI Photo) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called upon the leaders of the G20 grouping to overcome the current ‘trust deficit' and collectively find ‘concrete' solutions to turbulent global economy, terrorism and management of food, fuel, and fertilisers.

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The new initiative would link railways, ports, electricity and data networks and hydrogen pipelines  Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden at the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment & India-Middle East-Europe Economics Corridor event during the G20 Summit 2023, in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India, the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the European Union, unveiled an ambitious plans to create a modern-day Spice Route linking Europe, West Asia and India, that could rival China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — boosting trade ties with potentially wide-ranging geopolitical implications.

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ISRO chief S Somanath said the spacecraft was injected in the "precise orbit" Sriharikota: The Aditya-L1 spacecraft onboard a PSLV rocket on Saturday successfully got separated and would be proceeding on its journey towards the Sun on a 125-day voyage , ISRO said on Saturday. ISRO chief S Somanath said the spacecraft was injected in the "precise orbit". "Aditya L1 spacecraft has been injected in an elliptical orbit of 235 by 19,500 km which is intended, very precisely by the PSLV," he said.

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PTI Published : Sep 2, 2023, 11:59 pm IST Updated : Sep 2, 2023, 11:59 pm IST The lander and rover were still functioning and "our team with scientific instruments are doing a lot of work now," he said   Vikram lander as seen by the navigation camera on Pragyan Rover. (ISRO) Sriharikota : Lunar mission Chandrayaan 3's rover and lander are functioning well and they would be put to "sleep" soon to withstand the night on the Moon, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said on Saturday.

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In Srinagar, J&K's DGP said the situation in the Union Territory is much better than before as the graph of militancy continues to come down SRINAGAR: A senior Indian Army commander said a strong counter-infiltration grid existed along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir , but it was not possible to stop infiltration completely. Meanwhile, J&K's DGP has said that the counter-infiltration grid was made stronger which has resulted in almost zero infiltration along the borders, but Pakistan's 'conspiracies' have not stopped yet.

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PTI Published : Oct 15, 2022, 11:19 am IST Updated : Oct 15, 2022, 11:19 am IST It is important to differentiate between distortive subsidies and targeted support to the vulnerable households, Nirmala said  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attends the Development Committee Meeting of the World Bank-IMF, in Washington DC, USA. (PTI Photo) Washington: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged the World Bank to avoid a "unidimensional" view of the subsidies provided by the Indian government and asserted that it is important to differentiate between "distortive subsidies" and "targeted support" to the vulnerable households.

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Probe ordered, police on high alert, man detained   Police personnel use a sniffer dog to patrol Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Station in Mumbai, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. (PTI Photo) Mumbai: Security was tightened in Mumbai on Saturday after the traffic police control room received a text message threatening a 26/11-like attack. The traffic control department of Mumbai police received messages on its WhatsApp number on Friday night from a number with Pakistan's country code. Mumbai police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar said that other security agencies have also been informed about it.

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The Bill sought to establish a Data Protection Authority in the country for the protection of digital privacy of individuals  Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. (PTI) New Delhi: Government on Wednesday withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021 from the Lok Sabha after a joint parliamentary committee suggested 81 changes to it. Government will now bring in a new comprehensive bill. The Bill sought to establish a Data Protection Authority in the country for the protection of digital privacy of individuals.

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US President Joe Biden proclaimed, like his predecessors did after killing high-value militants, that 'now justice has been delivered' Ayman al-Zawahiri's elimination in an American drone attack, while lounging on the balcony of his house in Kabul, closes one chapter. US President Joe Biden proclaimed, like his predecessors did after killing high-value militants, that 'now justice has been delivered'. As Al-Qaeda's ruling head and former deputy of Osama bin Laden, Zawahiri was long sought by the United States for his role in the 9/11 attack.

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Buzz also over Modi - Shehbaz Sharif meet to 'break the ice' at Samarkand  Prime Minister Narendra Modi wil travel to Uzbekistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on September 15 and 16 (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India on Sunday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would travel to Samarkand in Uzbekistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on September 15 and 16, and was 'likely to hold a few bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit.

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The Indian army is arguably one of the most diverse, versatile and inclusive combat forces on earth There is an interesting story from the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. Pakistani President General Ayub Khan had attended the Sandhurst military academy in England before India's partition in 1947. Among his batchmates were officers who later joined the Indian army, including the army chief in the 1965 war – General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri – Ayub's company mate at Sandhurst. Fond of whisky and horses, the anglicized, urbane Ayub wore pinstriped suits and smoked a pipe.

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PTI Published : Aug 27, 2022, 11:13 am IST Updated : Aug 27, 2022, 11:13 am IST The officials from the company, however, refuted the whistle-blower's allegations and denied there was any data security breach in India  A parliamentary panel questioned top Twitter officials over a whistle-blower's revelations on its India operations. (PTI file image) New Delhi: A parliamentary panel questioned top Twitter officials over a whistle-blower's revelations on its India operations, and gave them a dressing-down as their replies on issues of data security and privacy were "not satisfactory", sources said.

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AFP Published : Aug 9, 2022, 11:02 pm IST Updated : Aug 9, 2022, 11:02 pm IST The FBI had not yet confirmed the search or said what it might be for, and Trump is at the center of a slew of legal investigations  Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP File) WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida was being "raided" by FBI agents in what he called an act of "prosecutorial misconduct." "These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents," he said in a statement posted on his Truth Social network.

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Such was the scale of the violence that 24 hours or so later, the Centre felt it must step in Geography, they say, is everything, even destiny. Nothing could be truer for Manipur today, where since May 3 a section of the state's minority tribal and majority Meitei populations have clashed with a bitterness that is unremembered and has left several people dead. Such was the scale of the violence that 24 hours or so later, the Centre felt it must step in. In an oddly coy fashion -- there appears to be no official notification about it -- the Centre is widely reported to have promulgated Article 355 of the Constitution in Manipur, that empowers it to protect states from external threats and internal disturbance, in this case, the latter.

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Rummaging through his suitcase, they found a photo identity card of George Fernandes, president of the AIRF In the afternoon of June 10, 1976, finally, without much ado or gore, it all came to an end. George was arrested from St Paul's Cathedral on Chowringhee Road in Calcutta. A posse of CBI men barged in and found three men sitting in a back room of the church auditorium. The church ran a social organisation called The Samaritans. Vijayan Pawamuni was its operational in-charge. He was one of the three men.

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THE ASIAN AGE. Published : Jul 23, 2022, 2:08 am IST Updated : Jul 23, 2022, 2:08 am IST Opp. slammed the govt for the amendment to the Flag Code and destroying the livelihood of those who made the national flags from khadi  The government has envisioned the Har Ghar Tiranga (tricolour at every home) exercise in the run up to the 75th anniversary of India's independence. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: An appeal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the countrymen on Friday to hoist or display the national flag in their homes between August 13-15 to strengthen the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' movement drew criticism from the Opposition, which alleged that the appeal was being made by 'a campaigner for the organisation which took 52 years to hoist the national flag in Nagpur.

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India has had no proper discussion internally on why we want to be in the Security Council A permanent, veto-wielding seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is India's right, according to India. The anger, irritation and frustration at not being accorded this entitlement shows up on occasion as it did last week in New York. On August 22, our representative said: 'How can we aspire for common security, when the common good of the global South is continued to be denied representation in its decision-making'; and that 'a truly representative Security Council is the most pressing need of the hour'.

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Some Ukrainian Universities have started relocating while some have offered online classes  Indian students, evacuated from war-torn Ukraine, arrive at the IGI airport, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: External affairs minister (EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar said said India is in touch with the Ukraine government and was exploring the best options for medical students who have returned home due to the Ukraine-Russia war. 'I have spoken to the Ukraine foreign minister. Given their situation, they are offering online courses.

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THE ASIAN AGE WITH AGENCY INPUTS Published : Aug 15, 2022, 12:16 am IST Updated : Aug 15, 2022, 12:16 am IST Official sources said the Prime Minister is likely to announce a host of initiatives for the health sector on this Independence Day  Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: For the ninth consecutive time today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the national flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort and then address the nation soon after hoisting the flag at 7 am Monday morning.

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PTI Published : Sep 11, 2022, 12:54 pm IST Updated : Sep 11, 2022, 12:54 pm IST The complaint had alleged irregularities in a July 2019 procurement bid for 1,000 low floor BS-IV and BS-VI buses  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (PTI) New Delhi: Delhi LG V K Saxena has approved a proposal to forward a complaint to the CBI to probe the alleged corruption in the procurement of 1,000 low-floor buses by the DTC, official sources have said. A complaint addressed to Saxena in June this year had claimed that the appointment of the Minister of Transport as the chairman of the committee for tendering and procurement of buses by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) was done in a "premeditated manner".

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President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the annexation would be formalised at a ceremony in the Kremlin MOSCOW: Russia will formally annex four regions of Ukraine its troops occupy at a grand ceremony in Moscow on Friday, the Kremlin has announced, after it suggested using nuclear weapons to defend the territories. The threats from senior Russian officials have not deterred a sweeping counter-offensive from Kyiv, which has been pushing back Russian troops in the east and is edging nearer the Donetsk region city of Lyman that Moscow's forces battered for weeks to fully capture.

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THE ASIAN AGE. Published : Aug 10, 2022, 1:31 am IST Updated : Aug 10, 2022, 1:31 am IST The existing mandate of filling up a self-declaration form online on the portal will continue, official sources said  The government is actively considering doing away with a provision which requires international passengers to upload their Covid vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal. (AP File Photo) New Delhi: The government is actively considering doing away with a provision which requires international passengers to upload their Covid vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal before flying to India.

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Shameek Bhattacharya pointed out that the TMC cannot call it a conspiracy of the Centre since the directive came from the judiciary  Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) be made a party in a petition seeking a probe into the astronomical growth of assets of 19 leaders of the ruling party including seven ministers and the Speaker. (Photo: PTI) Kolkata: In what may leave the Trinamul Congress in deep trouble, the Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) be made a party in a petition seeking a probe into the astronomical growth of assets of 19 leaders of the ruling party including seven ministers and the Speaker.

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The beach-side mansion sits in the northern part of Palm Jumeirah and has 10 bedrooms, a private spa, and indoor and outdoor pools Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd. is the mystery buyer of an $80 million beach-side villa in Dubai, the city's biggest ever residential property deal, two people familiar with the deal said. The property on Palm Jumeirah was purchased earlier this year for Ambani's youngest son, Anant, one of the people said, asking not to be named as the transaction is private.

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The city of Merced has organised a candlelight vigil for the family every night at 7 pm from October 6 to October 9 SAN FRANCISCO: Hundreds of people in the US city of Merced prayed with candles in their hands and tears in their eyes during a sunset vigil for the grieving Indian-origin Sikh family, including an eight-month-old baby, who was kidnapped and then killed by a former employee. Bodies of 36-year-old Jasdeep Singh, 27-year-old Jasleen Kaur, their eight-month-old child Aroohi Dheri and the baby's uncle, 39-year-old Amandeep Singh were found on Wednesday evening in an orchard after they were kidnapped on Monday.

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