Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made several bold statements during his foreign visits, which grabbed media attention. Here are nine famous statements Modi made overseas:
Read MoreIn a bid to make development a mass movement, the Narendra Modi government has come up with various schemes. Here is a look at some key projects launched by Prime Minister Modi:
Read MoreSutanu Guru argues how the Modi brand of politics over the last two years is a strange cocktail of aspirational expansionism and hardline Hindutva
Read MoreJawaharlal Lal Nehru was the first Prime Minister to present the budget when he held the union finance minister portfolio in 1958-59. Indira Gandhi was the only woman Finance Minister who took over the Finance portfolio from 1970 to 1971.
Read MoreFinance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday (19 February) kicked off the final budget-making exercise by helping to prepare halwa. It has been a tradition which has continued for long. As part of the ritual, halwa is prepared in a big kadhai (vessel) and served to the staff of the ministry.
Read MoreThe Narendra Modi-government will present its second full-year budget on February 29. Budget-making is an art of striking a fine balance between various competing demands. The Finance Minister is likely to lower taxes, increase social sector spending, raise investment in infrastructure and achieve the impossible by also curbing the fiscal deficit.
Read MoreThe tragedy involving ten Indian soldiers in the avalanche on February 3 while patrolling the Siachen Glacier region has highlighted the treacherous conditions under which military personnel have to work there. Here are five facts about the inhospitable terrain:
Read MoreThe odd-even scheme of the Aam Aadmi Party government to curb pollution got a thumbs up from Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.“I salute odd even, but important to think of the problem before it arises,” said Sen. The odd-even car rationing experiment was started on January 1 as one of the first measures to curb the high level of air pollution in Delhi. Over the last five days, a total of 1,938 drivers were prosecuted and fined Rs 2,000 each for violating the rule by traffic police.
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