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previous UPA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that efforts were made to destroy ordnance factories and even Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was brought to the brink due to misgovernance and dependence on imports to meet requirements of the armed forces. Speaking at Pokhran after witnessing a firepower demo by the three services utilising indigenous equipment, the PM said that prior to 2014, there were worries about ammunition reserves of the armed forces and scams had stymied procurement processes. «They destroyed our ordnance factories. We have given them a lifeline and have made them into seven big companies now. They brought HAL to the brink of disaster, we have converted it into a record breaking company,» the PM said after witnessing the 'Bharat Shakti' exercise.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be re-elected in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to achieve the goal of a developed India. Addressing a function at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan here, Adityanath said India cannot develop without Uttar Pradesh making progress and asked the state's municipal bodies to become self-reliant. «For a developed India, there should be a developed UP and for this, every municipal body should achieve the goal of self-reliance and ease of living,» Adityanath said. To achieve the goal of a developed India, the Narendra Modi government is needed once again in 2024, he added.

Nayab Singh Saini belongs to the OBC community in Haryana. So, the move to make him the CM could be seen as a way for the BJP to set the caste-equation right and make inroads in the vote share among the OBCs. The BJP had replaced Om Prakash Dhankar with Saini as the Haryana party chief in October, a move then seen as an attempt to strengthen its hold on the OBC community.

Mint explains why. Firms building AI models, large language models and generative AI applications should ensure their platforms don’t generate “unlawful content" that violates the IT Act of 2000. It asked firms to not “permit any bias or discrimination or threaten the integrity of the electoral process." It said “under testing/unreliable" models would need “explicit permission" of the Centre—and a ‘consent popup’ would be mandatory for such AI applications.

Modi Ki Guarantee' and claimed that the word 'guarantee' was first used by Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi. Jairam Ramesh, while speaking to on Tuesday, said the warranty of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's is «going to expire» after the general elections. "...The guarantees we've given in Telangana and Karnataka are being fulfilled. Where did the word guarantee come from? This is not Narendra Modi's word. Rahul Gandhi had used the term 'guarantee' during Karnataka assembly elections. Jab Modi ki warranty khatam ho rahi hai toh guarantee dene ka kya matlab hai?" he said.

Amidst the arid expanse of Rajasthan’s Pokhran, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bore witness to the 50-minute-long integrated tri-service firepower and manoeuvre exercise dubbed “Bharat Shakti.”

Jharkhand on Tuesday got another Vande Bharat Express train, which will be operated between state capital Ranchi and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually from Ahmedabad along with the unveiling of several other railway projects in the state and across the country. The PM also flagged off the Hatia-Asansol Express and inaugurated the Ranchi-Bondamunda railway line. Stalls under the 'One Station One Product' scheme at Ranchi, Hatia, Govindpur Road, Itki, Muri, Piska, Silli, Tangarbasuli, Tatisilwai stations, Barkakana, Ranchi Road and Pradhan Khanta stations were also inaugurated by the PM.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the picturesque Lakshadweep Islands has drawn attention to the process of applying for ILPs. This Union Territory, an idyllic paradise off the coast of Kerala, necessitates permits for all travellers, including Indians, to manage tourism numbers on these remote islands. Obtaining a permit requires submitting a clearance certificate from a local police station, along with identification documents, while online applications are also facilitated.

Dwarka Expressway by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to boost real estate prices in this part of Gurgaon, said real estate experts. Developers including Sobha, Raheja, Signature Global, M3M, Godrej and Hero Realty have projects along the corridor and some of them are planning to launch more projects as infrastructure development is expected to generate more demand. «With the expressway now complete, we are witnessing a promising downturn in unsold inventory levels in these sectors, from a significant 25-30% eight to 10 years ago to a mere 7-8% now,» said Anshuman Magazine, chairman, India, South-East Asia, Middle East & Africa, CBRE.

Indian Railways is all set to introduce a second Vande Bharat Express train on Ahmedabad-Mumbai route. The new semi high-speed train will commence its operations from Tuesday (March 12) onwards and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to flag it off. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Haryana section of the Dwarka Expressway today, heralding a new era for the real estate market in the region. With this, the Dwarka Expressway-New Gurgaon cluster is expected to see more holistic development of real estate on the back of operational expressway.

₹18,000 to ₹20,000 per KW for 1 KW systems. On January 21, the government simplified rooftop solar implementation rules, followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of the PM Suryodaya Yojana on 22 January, enabling one crore households to set up solar panels on their rooftops. In 2014, the government launched the rooftop solar programme with a cumulative installed target of 40 GW by 2022.

India-EFTA trade deal: In a landmark deal with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), India has signed a trade and economic partnership agreement (TEPA) to boost trade and investments for developed countries- Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. Under the agreement, the four-member EFTA has committed $100 billion in investments in India and the tariffs between both blocs are expected to reduce.

Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his «relentless campaign» on 'Modi ki Guarantee' cannot change the truth that he will say whatever he needs to in order to win an election and his «warranty» is now over. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the prime minister is going around the country proclaiming the virtues of his «guarantees» and since he has already been in power for a decade, one must do a status update of 10 guarantees he has given during his tenure. He said Prime Minister Modi promised to create two crore jobs for India's youth every year but unemployment reached a 45-year peak in India under «anyay-kaal (period of injustice)».

diplomatic protest with India over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Arunachal Pradesh last week, reiterating its claim over the area by saying India's moves will «only complicate» the boundary question. Prime Minister Modi on Saturday dedicated to the nation the Sela Tunnel built at an altitude of 13,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh that will provide all-weather connectivity to strategically located Tawang and is expected to ensure better movement of troops along the frontier region. The Rs 825 crore tunnel, constructed on the road connecting Assam's Tezpur to West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, is being billed as the longest bi-lane road tunnel in the world at such an altitude. The Sela Tunnel will provide for better movement of troops and weaponry to various forward locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, according to military officials.

NEW DELHI : New Delhi: India's economic performance is better than what the headline numbers reveal, with the sharp GDP growth coming amid challenging global macroeconomic conditions, Sanjeev Sanyal, member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council, told Mint in an interview. India's higher-than-expected growth of 8.4% during the third quarter of fiscal 2023-24 came without accompanying macroeconomic stresses, he added. Edited excerpts: The latest reading of an 8%-plus growth rate exceeds even the government's expectations.

Bar & Bench reported on March 11. The plea cites Section 7 and 8 of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment Conditions of Service and terms of office Act 2023, with the plea, the report said. The plea also seeks direction to appoint member of election commission as per Arup Baranwal judgment.

Modi, is expected to discuss names of the remaining candidates for the Lok Sabha election. The party released the first list comprising 195 candidates from 16 states for the Lok Sabha elections March 2. In the meeting on March 11, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners from Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, and Bihar are likely to discuss seat sharing with the BJP's top leadership, according to a report in news agency ANI.

Himanta Biswa Sarma performed Bhumi Pujan ceremony of 50 MW Solar Project being developed in Sonitpur, Assam by SJVN Green Energy Limited (SGEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SJVN. The 50 MW Solar Project is being developed in Sitalmari village, in Barsola Block under Dhekiajuli Revenue Sector in Sonitpur district. It will be built at an estimated cost of Rs. 291 crores. The project will generate 101 million units of green energy in the first year and the cumulative energy generation over a period of 25 years will be about 2,319 million units. The energy generated will be supplied to Assam Power Development Corporation Limited at Rs. 3.92 per unit. Chairperson & Managing Director, SJVN, Geeta Kapur informed that SJVN has set its footprint in Assam and that SJVN Green Energy Limited (SGEL), the renewable arm of SJVN, is developing three solar projects of capacity 200 MW, 70 MW and 50 MW, thus amounting to a total power capacity in the state of 320 MW. Among these, the foundation stone for the 70 MW Solar Project in Dhubri, Assam was laid by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 4, 2024.

solar power project in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district was laid on Sunday. Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy, RK Singh, and Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar, together laid the foundation stone for Barethi Solar Power Project of NTPC Renewable Energy Limited. Joining the event through video conferencing, Singh said that the government's work in the power sector under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been historic, with capacity almost doubling in the last 10 years. The Power minister said that the government has provided electricity connections to every village in the country.

India on Sunday signed a trade and economic partnership agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) — a grouping of Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland — that includes a binding $100-billion investment commitment. As part of the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA), EFTA has committed to promote investments to increase the stock of foreign direct investments (FDI) in India by $100 billion in the next 15 years, and to facilitate the generation of one million direct employment in India through such investments, the government said in a statement. «The global leadership of EFTA countries in innovation and R&D across diverse spheres...will open up new doors of collaboration,» PM Narendra Modi said about the trade agreement.