Punjab has 117 Assembly seats. The announcement was made by party leader Raghav Chadha on his Twitter handle.

The first episode of 'Mann Ki Baat' programme was broadcast on Oct 3, 2014.

Referring to his US visit, PM said that his govt brought back over 150 historical objects including a peshkabja, on which name of Guru Hargobind ji is written in Persian from America.

Christmas Day is being widely celebrated across the country with much fervour.

PM directed the officials for maintaining a high level of vigil and alertness at all levels. He directed the Centre to work in close coordination with the States to support their efforts of public health measures of containment and management under the ‘Whole of Government’ approach.

Uttar Pradesh and four other states (Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur) are slated to go to polls early next year. Barring Punjab, the BJP is in power in all the remaining four states.

PM will also lay the foundation stone for Biogas based Electricity generation plant for Milk Producers Cooperative Union Plant, Ramnagar, Varanasi.

The BJP, which has so far contested elections in Punjab with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), will contest 70 of the 117 Assembly seats.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday at a programme here transferred Rs 1,000 crore to bank accounts of self help groups to benefit around 16 lakh women.

The programme is being held as per the vision of the Prime Minister to empower women, especially at the grassroots level, by providing them with the necessary skills, incentives, and resources. In this endeavor to support women.

Vladimir Putin warmly thanked Narendra Modi for the hospitality extended to the Russian delegation during the high-level visit to New Delhi on December 6.

Apart from felicitating connectivity for locals, Ganga Expressway will also be an industrial corridor.

Bengal BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya termed the article published in an RSS-linked magazine as baseless and said it has nothing to do with the party's policy or stand. 

According to PMO, the Conference is being organised by the Dept of Urban Development of UP in Varanasi.

The Conference is being organised by the Dept of Urban Development of UP in Varanasi.

On the 50th anniversary of Vijay Diwas, PM Narendra Modi paid tributes to the valour and unwavering patriotism displayed by the Indian armed forces during the 1971 War. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government in the past 7 years introduced several reforms to modernise the 'Indian Krishi sector with technology and reviving organic ways to protect mother nature'.

The holiest city of Hinduism, Kashi, has regained its lost glory. Those living in Varanasi, steeped in spiritualism, philanthropy and devotion, had taken the narrow lanes, crowds and perennial traffic jams as part of their fate. 

Meanwhile, the Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu also paid his tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel today.

PM Modi was seen interacting with locals and waving at people who had turned up to greet him.