Policy that Matters

Washington: The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and the President of the United States of America Barack Obama met this morning. Marking their first bilateral summit, the President recognized the Prime Minister’s historic election victory in the largest democratic election ever held. The two leaders extolled the broad strategic …

Washington: Mr. President, members of the media, First, I want to thank President Obama for his invitation and his warm and generous hospitality. I am pleased to visit USA and meet President Obama at the start of my tenure. I am happy that we are meeting here just a few …

Text of Statement made by MoS for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar, at United Nations Climate Summit 2014 Distinguished Chairpersons, Ladies and Gentlemen, Today’s Opening presentation has effectively put on the table what the world expects from us. Distinguished Co-Chairs, Just as the fossil fuel led model …

New Delhi: The ‘Make in India’ initiative is for ‘Zero Defect; Zero Effect’ policy. State Governments, Business Chambers, Indian Missions aboard are playing an active role in the launch of the initiative. The Government is committed to chart out a new path wherein business entities are extended red carpet welcome …

New Delhi: Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi presented interesting picture of Asia in a Global Television Exclusive on CNN’s FAREED ZAKARIA GPS. HERE WE PRESENT THE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT… ZAKARIA: After your election people have begun asking again a question that has been asked many times for the last two …

New Delhi: The Prime Ministers discussed the importance of consolidating the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation. Prime Minister Abbott briefed Prime Minister Modi on Australia’s priorities as host of the G20 in 2014 and underlined Australia’s interest in working closely with India to lift ambition and …

New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India and The Prime Minister of Australia welcomed the collaborations between Universities and called for efforts to enlarge the scope for joint research, joint Ph. D. programmes and joint degrees and commended the work of the Australia-India Education Council (AIEC) in advancing education, training …

Tokyo: Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe pledged to realize the full potential of India – Japan Strategic and Global Partnership for continuing progress and prosperity for their people and for advancing peace, stability and prosperity in Asia and the world. Elevating the …

New Delhi: Ahead of the Australian Prime Minister Mr. Tony Abbot’s first official visit to India next week on September 4, the Australian High Commissioner in New Delhi, Mr. Patrick Suckling today called on Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, …

New Delhi: The Cabinet today at the meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi gave its approval for Digital India – A programme to transform India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy.  This is a follow up to the key decisions taken on the design of the …