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India is pulling out all the stops to get Elon Musk's Tesla to the country with government departments working to provide all the required approvals by January 2024. The Prime Minister's Office Monday held a meeting with top officials to take stock of the next phase of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing in the country, including Tesla's investment proposal, people with knowledge of the matter told ET. «Though the agenda of the meeting was centred on general policy matters, fast-tracking approvals by January 2024 to Tesla's proposed investment in the country was spelt out,» a top official said.

Ministry of Railways posted on X. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the second Vande Bharat of Kerala on 24 September.

Arvind Kejriwal to continue as the chief minister of Delhi even if he is arrested by any investigative agency, PTI reported. Kejriwal was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate last week for questioning in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the alleged excise police scam, but he skipped the summons saying it was «politically motivated». The chief minister called a meeting of AAP MLAs Monday amid a furore over recent actions by central probe agencies against ministers and leaders of the party. After the meeting, Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said all the MLAs present in the meeting told Kejriwal that «if he is arrested, he will continue to be chief minister since he has been given the mandate by the people of Delhi to run the government.» «All of them had a unanimous view that the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are scared of Arvind Kejriwal.

food grain programme will not have a major impact on the fiscal deficit in the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25, an Indian government source said on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that his government would extend a welfare scheme, which provides free grain to more than 800 million people and was due to end in December, by five years. The move aims to shield consumers from the rising prices of cereals ahead of a general election early next year, but could lead to higher government spending and require New Delhi to procure more wheat and rice from farmers to sustain the scheme. Before the extension, the free food grain program was estimated to cost the government around 2 trillion rupees ($24.04 billion) this year. The costs would broadly remain the same, a second government official said, but added that an increase in grain prices could lead to limited additional spending for 2023/24 of between 50 billion to 70 billion rupees.

Nadda on Monday accused the Congress of indulging in corruption, loot and dynastic politics. Addressing a rally in Pathalgaon constituency of Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh, he claimed the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in the state was a guarantee for «loot» and «deception». Highlighting the achievements of the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nadda said the BJP means development and growth.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research scientists last week, India, one of the key players in the global agricultural commodities market, wastes about 74 million tonnes of food every year. This accounts for roughly 8% of the 931 million tonnes of food wasted globally. Beyond the numbers, that kind of wastage is criminal.

₹10 crore on Sunday. The relief materials arrived to Nepal via a special Indian Air Force C-130 flight at Nepalgunj, said the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu in a statement on Sunday. The consignment of relief materials included tents, blankets, tarpaulin sheets as well as essential medicines and medical equipment, officials said.

Mizoram drew to a close on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the electorate through a video message with the promise of fulfilling their dream of making it a “marvellous” state. Modi highlighted the development work undertaken in the northeast since the NDA came to power at the Centre in 2014. In the video message, Modi delivered his short ten-minute speech partly in Hindi and English, underlining that the distance- both physical and mental- between the Centre and the northeast has been narrowed significantly in the last few years.

₹508 crore being paid to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel by Mahadev app promoters. “Congress government in Chhattisgarh has not spared any chance to loot you.

poll-bound states, political leaders have started visiting temples to seek blessings. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday offered prayers at the reverred Kedarnath Temple in Uttarakhand, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Maa Bamleshwari temple in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district. In a post on X, the Congress party said, “Jai Baba Kedarnath.

Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said Modi government’s fight against corruption is “nautanki" and those who have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) due to Enforcement Directorate (ED) scare are corrupt in real sense. “You can commit whatever crime you want and then join their (BJP) party to get protection.

Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding an emergency meeting with the governments of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to discuss the decline of business in Delhi due to air pollution despite the festive season. CTI chairperson Brijesh Goyal said business is declining despite the festive season due to pollution.

free ration scheme will be extended by 5 more years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on November 4. 80 crore people will benefit from it, Modi added. The Prime Minister made the announcement at a rally in election-bound Chhattisgarh. At the rally, PM Modi also took a swipe at the Congress party. He accused it of prioritising financial gains and frequently engaging in corruption. Modi said, «Congress hates self-respecting and confident poor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel over the alleged ‘Mahadev’ betting app scam. Polling for the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly will be held in two phases. The first phase elections will be on November 7 and other on November 17. The counting of votes will be on December 3.

Rahul Gandhi in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, while hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders. While the BJP refer to the tribal community as 'vanvasis', the Congress uses the term 'adivasis' for them. "There's a huge difference between the two words," Gandhi said while addressing the public in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, ahead of the assembly elections in the state.

Calling Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his family as «financial terrorists», Reddy said Minister T Harish Rao, who held the irrigation portfolio between 2014 and 2018, and Rao should take the responsibility and stepdown, paving way for an impartial investigation. «The central government has to constitute a committee with experts in irrigation, construction and quality control, from other states. All the pumps and lifts of the Kaleshwaram project have to be thoroughly and comprehensively examined and a report has to be submitted,» he told reporters. After reports of «damage» to Medigadda Barrage, the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) visited the site and found that the barrage has been severely compromised, rendering it useless unless fully rehabilitated. In a letter to the Telangana Chief Secretary, NDSA member Sanjay Kumar Sibal said the barrage under the present condition is «rendered useless until fully rehabilitated». Reddy sought to know why, even after this compliance report, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shkhawat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi «are going back» on ordering an inquiry into the whole episode.

Bhupesh Baghel today hit back at the BJP questioning why the Central government had not banned the Mahadev betting app till now. Baghel alleged that no crackdown on the betting app means Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have connections with the firm. The Chief Minister of the poll-bound state is facing heat from the BJP after the Enforcement Directorate claimed that he was allegedly paid Rs 508 crore by Mahadev app promoters.

Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking why he identifies himself as an Other Backward Class (OBC) member when he considers poor as the only caste in the country. Addressing a public meeting in Jagdalpur of poll-bound Chhattisgarh, he accused the BJP of insulting tribals by referring to them as 'vanvasi' instead of 'adivasi', and said his party will eliminate the term 'vanvasi' from the country. «BJP leaders use vanvasi term for adivasi in their speeches.

Rajnath Singh alleged on Friday that the crisis of trust in Indian politics has deepened due to the Congress. He said because of the difference in the words and deeds of political leaders, the public's trust in the country's politics as well as its leaders has gradually eroded. «Due to the difference in the words and deeds of leaders, the public's trust in Indian politics and its leaders has gradually eroded.

India's growing presence at the global high table, one can be forgiven for forgetting that New Delhi still has a neighbourhood to deal with. Which it is, one must say, doing with aplomb. The three India-assisted development projects in Bangladesh jointly inaugurated by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday marks an important moment not just in the bilateral ties between both democracies, but is also regional foreign policy 101 as it should be.

Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the 50 bedded Ayurvedic hospital at Dudhnoi in the Goalpara district of Assam. The hospital — the second such hospital to be opened in Assam in less than a month after Majuli — is equipped with all the major facilities including a state-of-the-art laboratory, a Panchakarma centre, an infertility clinic, a yoga unit apart from the OPD and IPD services. The Union Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal said, “It gives me immense pleasure that people of Dudhnoi and its adjoining areas can now avail the wonders of India’s rich heritage of Ayurveda.