Narendra Modi has been the Prime Minister of India since 2014. He is a Lok Sabha member from the Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 282 and 303 seats in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections under the leadership of Narendra Modi. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, PM Modi won the Varanasi seat with a margin of 4,79,505 votes. He was polled 6,74,664 votes and defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Shalini Yadav who got 1,95,159 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Modi contested on BJP ticket from the constituency for the first time and won the seat. He was polled 5,81,022 votes and defeated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Arvind Kejriwal who got 2,09,238 votes. Modi defeated Kejriwal by a margin of 3,71,784 votes. Modi also won the Vadodara seat in 2014 but decided to retain Varanasi. He was the Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. Modi represented Rajkot II constituency in the Gujarat Assembly in 2002 and Maninagar thrice in a row in 2002, 2007 and 2012. He is again contesting from the Varanasi constituency in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Read MoreIndividuals and organisations can participate through the website pmmementos.gov.in between September 17 and October 7. After the auction ends, the ministry will notify the highest bidders through email.
The 21st meeting of the SCO assumes a special significance in light of the rapidly evolving situation in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is celebrating his 71st birthday today. Born in Gujarat in 1950, PM Modi joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at an early age and was later drafted into the BJP.
India took 85 days to touch the 10-crore vaccination mark, 45 more days to cross the 20-crore mark and 29 more days to reach the 30 crore.
BJP embarked on a mega 20-day public outreach, "Seva and Samarpan", from Friday to mark PM Modi's 71st birthday.
PM Modi is into the third year of his second consecutive term as Prime Minister and has repeatedly emphasised the motto of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas' in governance.
TIME's profile of Modi says that in its 74 years as an independent nation, India has had three pivotal leaders - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Modi. "Narendra Modi is the third, dominating the country’s politics like no one since them.”
PM Modi will congratulate them on 100 pc completion of 1st vaccination dose, CM Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday.
Engineers Day is observed on Sep 15 to mark the birth anniversary of M Visvesvaraya, a civil engineer and Diwan of Mysore known for his pioneering works.
The shifting of the Defence Ministry office is expected to vacate 50 acres of land which will be developed as an Executive Enclave for the Central Vista project.
President Biden would host the first in-person Quad summit on September 24 in Washington which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia and Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga.
Modi's name was also mentioned in the provisional list of speakers released by the UN, sometime back.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh state university in Aligarh on Tuesday.
PM Narendra Modi offers condolences to Akshay Kumar after his mother Aruna Bhatia's demise. The actor shared PM's letter on the photo-sharing app and thanked him for the amazing gesture.
Vijay Rupani took the state's Chief Ministerial position on August 7, 2016, and is representing Rajkot West in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. It is learnt from sources that the party will declare Rupani's replacement by Sunday.
The meeting comes a day after Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of COVID-19 and it is not over yet.
The last time PM Modi visited the US was in September 2019 when he and then US President Donald Trump addressed the Howdy Modi event in Houston.
The candidates who will appear in the postgraduate medical entrance exam are demanding for centres' relocation, and to delay the entrance exam to September-end. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has dismissed plea for relocation of centres
We have to ensure that BRICS is more productive in the next 15 years, PM Modi said in his opening remarks at the 13th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi could visit Ayodhya on the occasion of Diwali. As many as 7.5 lakh earthen lamps will be illuminated on the occasion.
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