The recent three-day meet of the leaders of the RSS and its affiliates has generated a lot of curiosity and controversy. The presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several of his cabinet colleagues invited extra attention and ill-informed criticism. The RSS is a big and popular organisation. Hence, the attention and curiosity are understandable. […]
How well his outreach to the Indian diaspora translates into a foreign policy instrument depends on their effectiveness as pressure groups but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to be on course to attain two other objectives: “Unite” the Indian community abroad, and “revive” their links with the motherland. Over 250 organisations of the Indian […]
Prime Minister Modi spoke about corruption-free India in this year’s Independence Day address. He compared it with termites in our homes that require action at multiple levels. We have to give many injections at many places, he said. He was probably suggesting that besides government, people too have to play a role in uprooting corruption […]
Unlike his previous engagements with the Indian diaspora on foreign shores, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak to a different crowd at the Dubai international cricket stadium on August 17. The 2.6-million Indians living in the rich west Asian nation mostly have their roots in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the two southern states going to […]
Ram Madhav, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary in charge of party affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and the seven northeastern States, has blamed certain elements within Pakistan for the escalating violence along the International Border. In an interview with The Hindu, he said: “What is happening now, and is quite worrisome, is the fact that […]
Silchar: Allying fears of Bengali Hindus living in Assam, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav on Monday said Hindus, Christians and Buddhists, who came to India from Bangladesh or erstwhile East Pakistan, will be granted Indian citizenship. “No person who came from Bangladesh out of persecution or harassment will have to leave Assam or India. The […]
Emergency may not return in the same form, but we need to guard against illiberal tendencies. The Emergency wouldn’t really have mattered to a 10-year-old boy like me in 1975, but for my father’s arrest under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) in the early hours of June 26. He was a senior Jana […]
Arora said that before leaving for New Delhi, the BJP’s National General Secretary passed directions to ministers and office bearers that since the government was running smoothly Wrapping up his three-day J&K visit, Bharatiya Janata Party’s National General Secretary Ram Madhav Wednesday informed the party men that the two coalition partners in State have started […]
New Delhi: For 49-year-old Ram Madhav, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government marks an important milestone in his own career. Nearly 12 months ago, he joined the PM’s party after serving for years as one of the top leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS, which is the ideological mentor of […]
भारत-पाकिस्तान विवादों में ताजा कड़ी जुड़ गई। पाकिस्तान अपने कब्जे वाले कश्मीर के गिलगित- बालतिस्तान क्षेत्र में नया चुनाव करा रहा है। मालूम हो कि अपने हिस्से वाले कश्मीर को पाकिस्तान अनेक अलग-अलग टुकड़ों में पहले ही बांट चुका है जिनमें एक गिलगित-बालतिस्तान है। पाकिस्तान एक हिस्सा चीन को सौंप चुका है। दो अन्य हिस्से […]
