By Arun Kumar Washington:(IANS) Looking at the euphoria surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley, analysts have suggested that it can indeed spark India’s tech economy provided he can make it easier to do business with his country. ...
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New Delhi:(IANS) Saying khadi sales had doubled over one year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday again urged people to purchase khadi products. Pointing out that there would be a month-long discount on khadi products from October 2, he said ...
Read More »Modi’s Canada visit in April cost taxpayers dearly: Report
Toronto:(IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Canada this year cost taxpayers more than 373,000 Canadian dollars ($283,100), a media report said. The information on the expenditure on his visit includes 17,600 Canadian dollars ($13,340) on beverages such as ...
Read More »Modi discusses global economic turmoil with industry leaders
“The prime minister said that somebody’s pain shouldn’t be our gain. Instead, we should make our own efforts domestically to take up the opportunities from the current global situation,” Confederation of Indian Industry president Sumit Mazumdar cited him as saying ...
Read More »Normal life hit across India as millions join industrial strike
New Delhi:(IANS) Normal life was hit in many states on Wednesday as millions of industrial and blue collar employees struck work in the first nationwide protest since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power more than a year ago. Leaders of ...
Read More »Won’t renew ordinance on land acquisition: Modi
New Delhi:(IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government will not renew the land acquisition ordinance that lapses on Monday. “We had issued an ordinance which lapses tomorrow (August 31). I have decided, let it lapse. We will ...
Read More »‘Developing infrastructure in northeast a priority’
New Delhi:(IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that developing infrastructure in the north-eastern region is being given top priority by the government. “India will develop only if the northeast develops,” Modi said, while speaking at function at Vigyan ...
Read More »Modi woos UAE, says India has $1 trillion investment potential
Abu Dhabi:(IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday wooed top UAE business honchos, saying India has the potential of $1 trillion investments and also promised to address the concerns of business persons. Addressing an investors roundtable in Masdar City, a ...
Read More »Modi in UAE: Talks Investment, Visits Mosque, Meets Diaspora
ABU DHABI:(IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday arrived in the United Arab Emirates in the first prime ministerial visit in over three decades, with boosting trade and investment on top of his agenda. Modi, who is here on a ...
Read More »Economic importance of Modi’s UAE visit
New Delhi:(IANS) The importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE, the first after Indira Gandhi’s in 1981, can be gauged from the Gulf nation’s place in India’s energy security as the sixth largest import-source of crude oil ...
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