Gandhinagar: BJP’s new membership drive, which was launched last week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is receiving a huge response countrywide with more than 70 lakh people having registered as party members. “BJP expects to become world’s largest political party through its membership drive,” national in-charge of membership drive DineshRead More

New Delhi: Congress on Sunday took potshots at Narendra Modi’s ministry expansion saying the inclusion of BJP leader Giriraj Singh was a “crisp slap” by the Prime Minister to secularism. The party said that the expansion was “far more” of caste, geography and less on merit. Singh’s inclusion in theRead More

BHUBANESWAR: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today expressed hope that the black money stashed in foreign banks would return to the country in about one year. “We are optimistic that the black money stashed in foreign banks would return to the country in about one year time, much before theRead More

*  20 new ministers likely to be sworn-in on Sunday New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the first revamp exercise after taking charge, is all set to reshuffle and expand his cabinet on Sunday to inject fresh talent, give wider representation to states and ease pressure on some ministers. TheRead More

Tel Aviv: India has invited Israel to become a partner in the ‘Make in India’ initiative in the defence sector even as the Jewish state expressed its desire to share cutting-edge weapons technologies with New Delhi. These discussions were held yesterday between visiting Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his meetingRead More

Panaji, Goa Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar was on Saturday sworn in as Chief Minister to succeed Manohar Parrikar who is becoming a Union Minister. Parsekar took the oath of office and secrecy soon after the BJP succeeded in persuading Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza to accept his leadership. And so,Read More

Mumbai, The BJP and the Shiv Sena on Saturday appeared to have resolved their differences with the latter deciding to nominate Rajya Sabha member Anil Desai to be included in the Union Cabinet when Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffles and expands his ministry on Sunday. After blowing hot and coldRead More

Mumbai, A special package would be declared for drought-affected areas in Maharashtra, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said here on Saturday. The minister was speaking during a meeting with Maharashtra agriculture minister Eknath Khadse here. The package would be declared after receipt of report about crop yield in theseRead More

Varanasi, Bringing ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign to his Lok Sabha constituency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wielded a spade to remove silt deposited along the banks of the River Ganga and nominated nine persons, including Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, to carry forward the cleanliness drive in UP. Modi arrived at theRead More

Mumbai, Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ has broken all records of an adult hardback on pre-order subscriptions across both – fiction and non-fiction – categories, a statement from the publishers said. Tendulkar’s book broke the record set by Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson, which had soldRead More