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India and the United States are working with renewed trust in areas of new and emerging technologies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday as he thanked the American leadership for giving him a grand welcome.Speaking at a luncheon hosted in his honour by US Vice President Kamala Harris at...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the Amarnath pilgrimage, sources said. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and top officials of the intelligence agencies,...
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US Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday hosted a luncheon for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the state department. Prime Minister Modi is currently in Washington on a state visit at the invitation of President Joe Biden. The two leaders held a...
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PM Narendra Modi met top CEOs and Chairmen from the United States and India at the White House. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, Reliance Industries Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani, Zerodha and True...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday asked the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress to sort out their differences on the Delhi ordinance issue over tea and biscuits at a later date, reminding them that the Patna opposition meeting was not the ideal forum for such discussion, sources...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to Egypt beginning on Saturday will pay tribute to the brave Indian soldiers who fought and lost their lives in Egypt and Palestine during World War I.Modi's two-day state visit to Egypt at the invitation of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is the...
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As the leaders of 14 opposition parties met in Patna on Friday to chalk out a strategy for next year's Lok Sabha polls, top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders played down the meeting, with Home Minister Amit Shah calling it a mere photo opportunity.Bharatiya Janata Party chief J P Nadda said the...
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Delhi's primary weather station, the Safdarjung Observatory, has not experienced any heatwave this summer season. In fact, it is expected that there will be no heatwave until the end of June. This is quite unusual because since 2011, the observatory has always recorded at least one heatwave...
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The opposition parties' meet at Patna did not decide on fielding a common prime ministerial candidate but have resolved to consolidate all democratic forces to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Friday.All the parties that attended the meet...
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Stopping short of staging a walkout at the opposition meeting in Patna on Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party skipped the press briefing and came out with a statement condemning the Congress' silence over the Delhi central ordinance. Party founder...
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Screening of Hindi movies resumed in the country on Friday, days after they were banned following a controversy over Adipurush dialogues where Goddess Sita is referred as India's daughter.In Kathmandu, many cinema halls started screening Hindi films, except Adipurush , which...
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Reacting to a social media post speculating if Assam police will go to arrest former United States president Barack Obama over his remarks on the alleged vulnerability of minorities in India, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday claimed that there are many Hussain Obama in India and...
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Adani Group stocks ended in the negative territory on Friday, with Adani Enterprises falling nearly 7 per cent, in-line with weak trend in the broader market, amid reports that the United States authorities are looking into the representations that the conglomerate made to its American investors...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad on Friday gave a paternal reprimand to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his refusal to tie the nuptial knot, pointing out the consternation it was causing to his mother Sonia Gandhi.The aging septuagenarian, who was the last among the galaxy of...
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The Enforcement Directorate has raided 15 locations in Mumbai in connection with the alleged Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation COVID centre scam case and seized cash and documents of properties worth crores, according to ED sources. The case is linked to a money...
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The Uttar Pradesh board of secondary education has included biographies of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji and tribal leader Birsa Munda in the curriculum for classes 9 to 12. Biographies of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, spiritual leader...
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As many as 17 opposition parties on Friday resolved to fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unitedly to defeat the BJP and work with flexibility by setting aside their differences. Addressing a joint press conference after an almost four-hour-long meeting, during which leaders of 17 parties...
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A group of armed men, who sneaked from Yaingangpokpi (YKPI) in Manipur's Imphal East district and moved towards the hills on Friday afternoon, fired from automatic weapons towards Urangpat and Gwaltabi villages, officials said. Security forces columns, which were immediately deployed...
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Former WB CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Suchetna Bhattacharya, the daughter of former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, said she will soon undergo gender change to become transgender man. The 41-year-old, who had recently attended a seminar on LGBTQ+ community, told reporters on Wednesday that she prefers...
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Pt Nehru, the architect of modern India
The Uttar Pradesh board of secondary education has included biographies of Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji and tribal leader Birsa Munda in the curriculum for classes 9 to 12. Biographies of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, spiritual...
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Vinesh Phogat
India's ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Friday accused BJP leader Yogeshwar Dutt of leaking the names of the women wrestlers to Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and the media after the committee meeting.Earlier today Yogeshwar posted a video on Twitter questioning the exemption that the protesting...
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The Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to visit the 11th-century Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo during his two-day visit to Egypt beginning on Saturday. PM Modi's visit to the mosque is scheduled as the first event on the last day of his two-day programme in Egypt's sprawling capital Cairo.The...
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This is how they treat their first, says the Telegraph juxtaposing two texts of how America respects and revers its first President George Washington, while Narendra Modi as president of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library choose to remove the name of India's first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will form the government in 2024 by securing over 300 seats and becoming the Prime Minister again. Addressing a public meeting in Jammu, Shah said, No matter how many parties come for the meeting, they can never...
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FLOTUS Jill Biden tweets this image saying, Vibha Janakiraman, a youth violinist and 2023 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts kicked off the Official State Visit for the Republic of India today. Vibha honored her cultural connection to Western classical and South Indian classical music for...
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The Dawood foundation condoles the deaths of the family in the Titan
Shahzada Dawood, the British Pakistani businessman who was among the five people aboard a submersible journeying down to view the Titanic, is presumed to have died when the vessel experienced what the authorities believe was a catastrophic implosion during its descent to the ocean floor. He was...
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BJP president J P Nadda on Friday said that leaders who were jailed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi during Emergency were now welcoming her grandson Rahul Gandhi. The BJP leader was referring to the opposition meeting in Patna which was organised by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish...
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He is a filmmaker and his first film frightened the daylights out of human kind. Name him.
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If you've missed reading this, here's what happened during PM Modi's speech at the US Congress.Applauding the Indian community in the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that they are brilliant in every field, not just in Spelling Bee and have played a big role in the country's relationship...
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Abhishek Dev
What's the best thing you can do with money? Make it work for you. Make it grow.If you need help understanding how to do this, do ask rediffGURU Abhishek Dev.Dev is the co-founder and CEO of the financial planning company, Epsilon Money Mart. A management graduate, he has over 21 years...
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Cloud remains a long-term investment priority for 70 per cent of major corporations despite macro headwinds and the recent slowing of growth of global cloud providers, according to a new TCS survey.'Connected Future: How Cloud Drives Business Innovation', the IT services company's global survey...
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Mary Millben, a prominent African-American Hollywood actress and singer will perform here on Friday at the concluding event for the Official State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Highly popular in India for her singing of the Indian National Anthem and the bhajan, Om Jai Jagdish Hare,...
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A male passenger, aged 23, identified as Ritesh Sanjaykumar Juneja, who was onboard a Vistara flight, has been arrested after complaints by crew members that the person was allegedly speaking to someone over the phone about 'plane hijacking', Mumbai Police said.Any details about the flight and...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shares this image saying: This week we are recognising the strength of the US-India relationship and our commitment to expand cooperation on shared priorities, including at tonight's State Dinner hosted by @POTUS for Indian Prime Minister...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said all Opposition parties are going to defeat the BJP in the 2024 general elections unitedly. Accusing the BJP of working to divide India and spread hate and violence, he asserted that a fight of ideologies is going on in India. On one...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first State visit to the US will take bilateral ties in areas of space, defence, emerging technology and supply chains to the next level, Vice President Kamala Harris has said. Modi became the first Indian leader to address the joint session of the US...
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Taranjit Singh Sandhu, ambassador of India to the United States tweets this picture of the Indian embassy lit up in the colours of the national flag.
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Saif Ali Khan and his daughter Sara will be working together on an ad film. The two have been offered a few films together in the past, but Saif felt it was not the right time for them to be seen together on screen. Saif and Sara shot for an advertisement earlier this week and enjoyed...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi received exceptional warmth and hospitality extended to him from United States President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden during his truly pathbreaking first state visit, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said. Kwatra told reporters in a media briefing on...
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Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai and his wife Anjali, Nita Ambani and Reliance Group chief Mukesh Ambani at the State Dinner at the White House last night.
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The Titan submersible
Titanic filmmaker James Cameron has said he is struck by the similarities between the 1912 sinking of the iconic ship and the tragic death of a group of passengers aboard a submersible that was en route to see its remains. The Hollywood veteran, known for directing the 1997 feature...
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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Bihar Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, DMK leader TK Balu and RJD leader Manoj Jha share a smile for the camera. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said a decision on whether to oppose the Centre's ordinance on the control of...
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Top leaders of Opposition parties will meet in Patna today to chalk out a roadmap for the formation of an anti-BJP front for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. It is being hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of JD(U) and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav of RJD at the former's Aney Marg...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi received a rousing welcome on Friday upon arrival in Patna where he flew in to attend a crucial opposition meeting convened by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Gandhi, who is in Bihar for the first time after the state assembly polls of 2020, was...
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The Empire State Building lit up in the Indian tricolour on the occasion of PM Modi's state visit to the US.
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Anand Mahindra, Chairman Mahindra Group was an invitee to the State Dinner at the White House yesterday. Landed in D.C and honoured to be an invitee to the State Dinner tonight. After hearing this preview of the preparations for dinner made by @FLOTUS I've decided to skip lunch, work up my...
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US Congressmen lined up to take autographs and selfies with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his address to the joint sitting of the US Congress, earlier today. The picture alongside is the moment when Modi, addressing the Congress says there have been even more momentous developments in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the dark clouds of coercion and confrontation are casting their shadow on the Indo-Pacific, in a veiled attack on China amid its aggressive military manoeuvring in the strategically vital region. In his address to the joint meeting of the US...
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Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra briefs about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ongoing State visit to the USA. When the PM and President Biden held discussions after the ceremonial welcome, technology featured very prominently in the discussion... At least 20-25 areas of technology partnership...
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The White House released this image of PM Modi and US President Joe Biden taking a walk in the White House gardens. The statement from the White House says, As the world's oldest and largest democracies and as key security providers in the Indo-Pacific, the United States and India are a combined...
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The Ambanis at the state dinner
Big names in the tech world, film and fashion industry as well as billionaire industrialists were among those invited to the State dinner hosted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's honour at the White House on Thursday night. See the full guest list here.
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If you've missed this: Read the Joint Statement from the United States and India here.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nearly hour-long address to the US Congress evoked multiple standing ovations, applauses and cheers from American lawmakers and chants of Modi, Modi' from members of the diaspora community sitting in the grand House Chamber at the US Capitol here. Modi became...
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President Joe Biden expressed his delight in hosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the official State dinner at the White House and emphasised that the occasion celebrates great bonds of friendship between India and the United States.In a special address during the State Dinner at the White...
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I want to thank US President Joe Biden for this wonderful dinner today. I would also like to thank First Lady Jill Biden for taking care of my visit to make it successful. Yesterday evening you opened the doors of your house for me, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the official...
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Mukesh and Nita Ambani arrive at the White House for the state dinner.
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Zerodha Co-Founder Nikhil Kamath arrives at the White House for the state dinner.
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Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen arrives at the White House for the state dinner.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the White House for the state dinner.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at the White House for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state dinner.
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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House for the state dinner on Thursday. Among the US officials who arrived at the White House for the state dinner was the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, US Secretary of State Antony...
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Affirming a vision of the United States and India as among the closest partners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden on Thursday said that the diverse partnership between the two nations will serve the global good. The US-India Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership...
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'Our trusted partnership is like Sun in this new dawn that will spread light all around. Today, we stand at new dawn in our relationship that will not only shape destiny of our two nations, but also that of the world. Together, we shall demonstrate that democracies matter and democracies...
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Reiterating his statement over Ukraine-Russia war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, I have said directly and publicly, this is not an era of war, but one of dialogue and diplomacy.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked tough on cross-border terrorism and said, Two decades after 9/11 and a decade after 26/11 in Mumbai, radicalism and terrorism still remain pressing danger for whole world.Terrorism is an enemy of humanity and there can be no ifs or buts in dealing with it....
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Today in modern India, women are leading us to a better future. India's vision is not just of development that benefits women. It is of women-led development where women lead the journey of progress. A woman has risen from a humble tribal background to be our Head of State, Modi said giving the...
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Indian culture deeply respects environment and planet. Our vision is pro-planet progress. Our vision is pro-planet prosperity. Our vision is to create pro-planet people, Modi said at the US Congress.
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We have over 2,500 political parties. About 20 different parties govern various states of India. We have 22 official languages and thousands of dialects, yet we speak in one voice, said PM Narendra Modi while addressing the joint sitting of the US Congress.
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More quotes from PM Modi's address.- India is the home to all faiths in the world and we celebrate all of them. In India, diversity is a natural way of life, today the world wants to know more and more about India,- We pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. We remember many...
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Talking about the growing numbers of Indian-Americans in the US Congress, Modi said, I am told that Samosa Caucus is now flavour of House. I hope it grows and brings full diversity of Indian cuisine here.The foundation of America was inspired by the vision of a nation of equal people...There are...
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In the past few years, there have been many advances in AI- Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, there have been even more momentous development in another AI- America and India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during his address.I can relate to the battles of patience, persuasion and...
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It is always a great honour to address the US Congress. It is an exceptional privilege to do so twice. For this honour, I extend my deepest gratitude to the 1.4 billion people of India. I see that nearly half of you were here in 2016. I can also see the enthusiasm of the old friends and the new...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his address to the joint sitting of Congress.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the US Capitol to address the joint sitting of Congress shortly.Modi meets Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy ahead of his address.
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The pilot and four passengers of a missing submersible that disappeared en route to the wreckage of the Titanic are believed to be dead, the expedition company said.Pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, along with passengers British-Pakistani billionaire businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the joint sitting of the US Congress shortly. Members of the Indian diaspora have started lining up outside Capitol Hill, as they await the arrival of Prime Minister Modi.
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