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What are the reasons that have made Mark Zuckerberg, a 31-year-old, a household name? You will say hard work, razor sharp brain, impressive tech vision, incredible business acumen, right opportunities and probably just a tiny bit of luck. All that is true, but yesterday, as he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Zuckerberg added one more [...]

Modi’ recent visit in Ireland: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived on historic visit to Ireland on Wednesday got a warm welcome from Irish kids. Students of John Scottus School in Dublin chanted Sanskrit Shlokas to welcome visiting Indian prime minister. Modi appreciated the song sung in Sanskrit by Irish kids. “Amazed to hear Sanskrit [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mourned the death of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, whom he considered as his guru. “Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji’s demise is a personal loss. I pray that his soul attains eternal peace,” Modi wrote on Twitter, soon after he landed in New York today. “My thoughts are with the countless people inspired by [...]

Even the US government is lamenting that political forces in India are trying to resist the PM’s economic reforms. It has been remarked how well Indians do outside of India. It could also be said how well Hindus do outside of India, and additionally how well Hindu-based teachings like yoga do outside of India. The [...]

“Yoga: Harmony with Nature” is a compelling and beautiful new film by National Film Award winner Raja Choudhury and the External Publicity & Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of India celebrating Yoga, one of India’s most important gifts to the World. The film explores Yoga’s origins, history, benefits, science, spread and [...]

NEW DELHI: One year may not be enough for him to show results as far as his pet Ganga cleaning project is concerned, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to demonstrate substantial progress on the issue when his government goes to the polls at the end of its term. A timeline for this complex [...]

The BJP’s thundering defeat in Delhi was not due to any sudden merits of the Aam Aadmi Party, but to several problems inside the BJP itself. That much is not controversial. The debate is all about what exactly were the mistakes made. Campaign strategy – We need not spend many words on the poor campaign strategy, contrasting [...]

Though India has pursued the case of Dawood Ibrahim with the US for a long time, the two countries signalled their intention to jointly go after the mob boss and his support network during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the US.  A joint statement issued after Modi’s meeting with US President Barack Obama [...]

Narendra Modi’s accession to power has not entirely ended the international campaign against him, witness the petition (with most signatures found to be fraudulent) to Barack Obama to cancel Modi’s planned visit to Washington. It was floated by the Coalition Against Genocide, a platform of several dozen Muslim organizations and some Communist coattails, many of [...]

The politically aligned Dwarka Sankaracharya’s tirade against Shirdi Sai Baba comes at a time when the ruling Congress-NCP is desperate to retain Maharashtra in the upcoming Assembly election The spectre of a looming Congress-NCP defeat in the Maharashtra Assembly election, due later this year, most likely provoked the Dwarka Sankaracharya’s vituperative attack on the Sai [...]