Thursday, January 10th, 2019
PM Modi likely to lay foundation for UP industrial projects on January 20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expected to lay the foundation stone for industrial projects in Uttar Pradesh, valued at as much as Rs 80,000 crore, at a ceremony to break ground on January 20. The state government was still awaiting official confirmation of the visit from the Prime Minister’s Office, an official said. The projects Most of the projects are in the IT and electronics sectors. They form part of memoranda of understanding worth Rs 4.68 lakh crore that the Yogi Adityanath government signed with public and private companies atRead More
Rahul Gandhi and PM Modi trade barbs over Rafale debate and the defence minister
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, at a rally in Rajasthan on Wednesday, ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for leaving it to a woman, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, to defend the government in the parliamentary debate on Rafale. Modi hit back at a rally in Agra, accusing Gandhi of insulting the country’s first woman defence minister. The exchange Gandhi said the chowkidar with the 56-inch chest had fled and asked Sitharaman to defend him because he could not defend himself. He also attacked the Prime Minister over the Rafale deal. Responding inRead More