India has reported more than 1.1 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began in December 2019 (file) New Delhi: Today a meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office to review the coronavirus situation in the country amid an increase in cases in recent days, and amid concerns that mutated …
Read More »Vajpayee, Sharif spoke on the phone in the middle of the Kargil war, says book
The former prime minister was of the opinion that Nawaz Sharif had been misled by the Pakistani army led by General Pervez Musharraf into the conflict, says the new book on Vajpayee’s tenure at the forefront of affairs in India. Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former Pakistani Prime …
Read More »Four Arrested for Listing Prime Minister Modi’s Varanasi Office on OLX
The ad listed the Prime Minister’s office as a 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom villa with a carpet area of 6,500 square feet. An advertisement on the classifieds website OLX has put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi office up for sale at a price of 7.5 million rupees. Four people have been arrested …
Read More »Center may not have stake in public sector banks after privatization
The government is leaning towards the view that a bank’s exit from the public sector should be total when it is privatized. However, to make the sale attractive, the government wants the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to relax the rules on ownership in private sector banks. A senior government …
Read More »The path to appointments of India’s envoys to neighboring countries passes through a PMO
With Vikram Doraiswami taking over as high commissioner in Bangladesh on Monday, it is quite apparent that the path to high-profile ambassador assignments in the neighborhood runs through the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Last week, Rudrendra Tandon went to Kabul to take up the post of Indian ambassador to conflict-torn …
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