World needs more leaders like you: World Bank Group President to PM MODI

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the completion of his government’s one year in power and said the world needs more leaders like him.

NDA wins 13 out of 24 seats in legislative council polls.Massive blow to JDU-RJD alliance in Bihar.

In what could be termed as a major setback to the ruling JD(U)-RJD alliance in Bihar, rival BJP-led NDA alliance has won 13 out of 24 seats in the state legislative council elections on Friday.

Ruling JD(U) (5 seats) and RJD (3 seats) managed to win just 8 seats while remaining were won by Congress and an Independent each.

Today's results could be understood as a huge blow to Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav, who joined hands to counter their common foe i.e. BJP. Bihar CM had termed these polls as a semifinal before the state goes for polls in the month of October, this year.

The election for 24 seats of Bihar Legislative council were held on Tuesday with an estimated 94 percent voting recorded during the polls. Altogether, 152 contestants were in the fray for the 24 council seats. 

WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE INDIA INNOVATION HUB: MODI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday promised to do everything possible to make enterprise and innovation easier so that India emerges as an innovation hub and keeps pace with the fast changing world.

साल एक शुरुआत अनेक | #SaalEkShuruaatAnek : Hindi

Modi says : Make renewable energy affordable to all.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for innovation and research to make solar and wind power affordable, even as companies like NTPC, Suzlon and Reliance Power pledged mega investments in such areas.

Modi Government keeps its promise; already recovered Rs 3,500 crore in Black Money

 

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money expects the income tax department to recover Rs 10,000 crore by March 31 as tax and penalty for tax evasion from 300-odd Indians who held illegal accounts in Swiss banks. "Under the supervision of the SIT, the I-T department has already recovered around Rs 3,500 crore from some of the account holders. As these are old accounts, the assessment proceedings have to be complete by March 31 and we expect the I-T department to net another Rs 6,500 crore by that time," SIT vice-chairman Justice Arijit Pasayat told TOI.

125 toll plazas will be scraped by month-end :Nitin Gadkari

Aiming to spare general public from levy at highways, the government has announced it will scrap 125 toll plazas in the country by the end of February.