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PM Modi unveils statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow on his birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday unveiled a statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Lok Bhawan in Lucknow.

He also laid the foundation stone for the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University in the Uttar Pradesh capital.

The state government has given 50 acres of land for the varsity.

The event coincided with the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who represented Lucknow in the Lok Sabha five times.

Earlier in the day, President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several union ministers paid tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 95th birth anniversary.

A prayer meeting was held at Sadaiv Atalthe memorial to Atal Bihari Vajpayeeto mark the birth anniversary of the former prime minister.

BJP veteran LK Advani, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and members of Vajpayee's family were amongst those who paid tributes to the BJP leader amid the playing of hymns and devotional music.

The memorial was dedicated to the nation in December last year.

Vajpayee was born in 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He died on August 16, 2018 at AIIMS in New Delhi.

"Tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is etched in the hearts of the countrymen, on his birth anniversary," Modi wrote on Twitter.

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PM Narendra Modi Launches Plan to Tackle Water Shortage in India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a 60-billion-rupee ($842 million) plan to tackle water shortages in the country’s seven heartland states where agriculture is a mainstay. India, the world’s second-most populous country, faces the worst long-term water crisis in its history as demand outstrips supply, threatening farm output and overall economic growth in Asia’s third-largest economy. Almost every sector of the $2.6 trillion economy is dependent on water, especially agriculture, which sustains two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people. “Water shortages in the country not only affect individuals and families; the crisis also has an effect on India’s development,” Modi said. “We need to prepare the new India to deal with every single aspect of the crisis.” The plan launched by Modi would help replenish ground water and boost overall availability in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat states, which produce staples such as rice, wheat, sugar and oilseeds.

India is the world’s leading producer of an array of farm goods, and nearly 60% of the irrigation for agriculture comes from ground water, mainly through electric water pumps. Subsidised electricity gives farmers an incentive to pump out more water, a key reason behind fast-depleting water tables in the vast country. Supplying clean drinking water to millions of poor people and reviving moribund irrigation projects were a key part of Modi’s policies for India, where the monsoon accounts for nearly 70% of the annual rains needed to water farms and recharge aquifers and reservoirs. Nearly half of India’s farmland, without any irrigation cover, depends on annual June-September rains to grow a number of crops. Drinking water is also an issue, as about 200,000 Indians die every year due to inadequate access to safe water and 600 million face high to extreme water stress, according to the National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, a think tank chaired by Modi. According to UK-based charity WaterAid, about 163 million people in India — roughly 12% of the population — do not have access to clean water close to home.

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Suryadeva, can you tell who this is by his clothes?

For the solar eclipse on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore designer sunglasses — Maybach Diplomat-I with Carl Zeiss lenses, similar to the pair he wore to China in 2015. These spectacles, which bear the logo of the German carmaker, cost more than $2,159 online, whose rupee equivalent is above Rs 1.5 lakh.

“Most welcome... enjoy!” is what the Prime Minister told someone on Twitter who had commented that the photograph Modi had tweeted (below left) would turn into a meme.

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PM Modi, Amit Shah Have Lost Trust Of People, Says Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh and several other party leaders are in the national capital to attend the Congress Foundation Day celebrations at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office.
Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have lost the confidence and trust of the people of the country.
"It is a question of belief and confidence. Modi ji had said ''Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas Sabka Vishwas''. Today, Modi and Amit Shah have lost the ''Vishwas'' (trust) of the people," Mr Singh told reporters commenting on the ongoing protests against the newly enacted citizenship law.

Protests are being held across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act which grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

Digvijaya Singh and several other party leaders are in the national capital to attend the Congress Foundation Day celebrations at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office.

"Today we celebrate Congress Foundation Day with a commitment to fight all Divisive Forces in India. Bharat Mata ki Jai. Congress Party Zindabad," Mr Singh had tweeted earlier today.

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On the Birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched Atal Bhujal Yojana

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PM Modi Launches Outreach Campaign


Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inviting the public to express support for the Citizenship Amendment Act with a new hashtag, as protests against the controversial law continue.
rime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an outreach campaign with the hashtag #IndiaSupportsCAA to gather support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has sparked furious, sometimes deadly protests across India in recent weeks.

PM Modi's official website tweeted that the CAA "is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees and not about taking anyone’s citizenship away".

At around the same time, PM Modi tweeted a video featuring spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who he said had provided a "lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA" and "calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups".

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PM Modi Urges Youth To Take Part In Skill Development Courses

* 18K individuals have been trained in J&K under Himmat Scheme.
* Skill Training has the potential to change the lives of India’s youth: PM Modi
* The PRIME scheme will upskill or reskill Indians in new-age technologies

Highlighting the success of the government’s skill development mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his last Mann Ki Baat radio programme this year. Urging the youth to take part in development programmes, Modi cited examples of numerous individuals who, leveraging the government’s skill development schemes, made it big from themselves as well as for the society. Modi stressing about the success of the Himayat scheme, a government’s skill development programme running in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, said that so far 18K individuals have been trained in 77 different expertises. “The programme helped 5K individuals to get employment,” Modi was quoted as saying by The Hindu. During his radio talk, the PM also urged individuals to enrol in skill development programmes. Further citing an example of a women self-help group, which started their own footwear manufacturing unit under the Grameen Aajeevika Mission, Modi said that their operation and business is working so well that it is now equipped with a modern manufacturing plant.

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Fire At Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Residence Complex In Delhi



Blaze has broken out in a part of PM residence at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (formerly known as 7 Race Course Road).
A fire has broken out inside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residential-office complex, located at Lok Kalyan Marg (formerly known as Race Course Road) in New Delhi.

The fire department received the call at 07:25 pm. Nine fire tenders were rushed to the spot, which were able to douse the blaze by 07:55 pm. The source of the fire was an inverter.

There are no reports of any injuries or property damage so far.
"There was a minor fire at 9, Lok Kalyan Marg caused by a short circuit. This was not in PM’s residential or office area but in the SPG reception area of the LKM complex," PM Office's official Twitter handle tweeted.

"The fire is very much under control now," it said.
PM's residence-cum-office and security spread across five bungalows 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, including 5, Lok Kalyan Marg, the Private Residential Zone for the Prime Minister, though he operates from 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.

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In PM Modi’s tweet, Sadhguru says govt was caught napping on CAA, failed to communicate properly

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday stepped in to counter what the government terms a "misinformation campaign" against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by people and groups with vested interests. He put out a tweet containing a week-old video by spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru among his followers.

PM Modi posted the tweet with hash-tag #IndiaSupportsCAA, commenting, "Do hear this lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA and more by @SadhguruJV. He provides historical context, brilliantly highlights our culture of brotherhood. He also calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups."

In this video, Sadhguru interestingly holds the government accountable for protests and vandalism, though indirectly. Sadhguru says in the video while responding to a question put to him by a young woman from Lucknow, that due to the lack communication from the government side "for whatever reasons", some people "took advantage and spread misinformation" about the CAA.

Precisely at 13.35 minutes into the video, Sadhguru says, "It looks like that the government was caught napping They did not expect such a big reaction to such a simple issue."

Again at the 20.05 mark, Sadhguru can be seen saying, "In some way, I think, for whatever reasons, I think, the government has failed to communicate this properly. Otherwise, personally I don't see one issue on these things. But I think communication-wise, the way it was communicated, a certain number of people are perceiving at as a threat to them."

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PM Modi Calls Cds ‘momentous, Comprehensive Reform’ As Gen Bipin Rawat Takes Charge


A gazette notification issued by the government on Monday created a new department of military affairs or Sanya Karta Vibhag that will be headed by India’s first CDS.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the appointment of the chief of defense staff (CDS) was a momentous and comprehensive reform that would help India face challenges of modern warfare, a day after General Bipin Rawat’s appointment to the top post.

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Vice President Naidu, PM Modi extend new year greetings

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended new year greetings, hoping aspirations of everyone are fulfilled in 2020.

The new year is a time for new beginnings, the Vice President said.

"I convey my warm greetings and best wishes to all our citizens on the advent of the New Year 2020," Naidu said.

Prime Minister Modi hoped that 2020 is filled with joy and prosperity.

"May everyone be healthy and may everyone's aspirations be fulfilled," he wrote on Twitter.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending various programs besides addressing the Indian Science Congress during his two-day visit to Karnataka starting Thursday.

On his first day of visit to the southern state, PM Narendra Modi will visit the Sree Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru. At another public meeting in Tumakuru, PM Narendra Modi will distribute Krishi Karman Awards and Commendation Awards to various states, a statement by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) read.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa visited Tumakuru on Tuesday and held a meeting with officials to discuss the arrangements of the prime minister's visit.

Yediyurappa, speaking to reporters later, said PM Narendra Modi will reach Siddaganga Math at 2.15 pm where he will pay his obeisance to the seer there. He will be in the town till 5.30 pm on January 2.

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PM Modi To Inaugurate Science Congress Today; 2 Nobel Laureates Among Attendees


The five-day event will see Nobel laureates Stefan Hell from Max Planck Institut Germany and Ada E Yonath, an expert in structural biology from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, taking part.

Top scientists, including two Nobel laureates, will be among policymakers, academicians and other delegates to attend the 107th Indian Science Congress, to be inaugurated today by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The five-day event will see Nobel laureates Stefan Hell from Max Planck Institute Germany and Ada E Yonath, an expert in structural biology from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

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Patent, Produce and Prosper: PM Modi To Innovators

Citing that the growth story of India depends on its achievements in the science and technology sector, Prime Minister Narender Modi, on Friday (January 3) urged young scientists to innovate, patent, produce, and prosper.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 107th Indian Science Congress, Modi said that if the innovators in India followed these steps then it can bring faster development in the country. “If we innovate, we will patent and that, in turn, will make our production smoother and when we take these products to the people of our country, they will prosper,” he added.

Recently, there has been a huge improvement in the total number of peer-reviewed science and engineering publications shared by India. Modi said that these numbers are growing at a rate of about 10% compared to around a 4% global average.

Further highlighting that the improved rankings of India in the Innovation Index, Modi said that the innovation by the people for the people is moving in the direction of making a New India. Notably, India had stepped up five positions to 52 in Innovation Index 2019.

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Ranchi Lawyer Files Case Against PM Modi, Amit Shah For Not Fulfilling 2014 Poll Promises

The prime minister, home minister and their colleague Ramdas Athawle have been accused of telling a bundle of lies in election rallies and taking common people for a ride.
A case has been lodged by a Ranchi lawyer in the district court against PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and others for not fulfilling the promise made during the campaign trail in 2013-14 and in the BJP manifesto.

The prime minister, home minister and their colleague Ramdas Athawle have been accused of telling a bundle of lies in election rallies and taking common people for a ride.

The lawyer HK Singh, in his complaint, claims that the BJP leaders promised to credit Rs 15 lakhs in every account but took a U-turn after they mustered the majority by cheating the common man. Singh said, "Even I am feeling duped and so does the common people of the country by the cunning and deceit of the BJP leaders."

On the basis of Singh's complaint, the court has registered a complaint under section 415, 420 and 123 (B) and the next hearing is on February 1.

Taking the opportunity, Opposition party Congress took a jibe at the BJP.

Party spokesperson Alok Dubey said that the case was proof that the people were fed up of the volley of lies, the BJP leaders speak fluently. "Now, the people have started to react and express their anger against the fraud and baseless assurance of BJP leaders. They never match to what they say... someday people fuming in wrath can take to streets against the tall claims of Union government," the Congress leader said.