Mumbai: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) apparently has no records of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s media interactions for over four years, an RTI query revealed here on Friday. Mumbai-based RTI activist Anil Galgali had posed the query on December 8, 2018, seeking full details of Modi’s media interactions, live interviews[Read More…]
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PMO not a party to Rafale deal: Former Defence Secretary G. Mohankumar
Thiruvananthapuram: Giving a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, former Defence Secretary G. Mohankumar — during whose tenure the Rafale deal was finalised — said on Friday that the deal was a clean one and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had no role in it. Mohankumar said this[Read More…]
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rubbishes report on Rafale, questions journalistic ethics
Following the release of the report by a daily which cited a Defence Ministry that stated “such parallel discussions by the PMO has weakened the negotiating position of MoD and Indian Negotiating Team” Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed the conduct of the publishing saying, “If a newspaper publishes a noting[Read More…]
BJP worker who posed PM Modi query on ‘tax burden on middle-class’ clarifies “wrongful propagation”
Nirmal Kumar Jain, a BJP worker has posted a video on Twitter clarifying the “hype” over PM’s answer to his question in the Puducherry meet of Mera Booth Sabse Majboot. Nirmal Kumar in the video first thanked the Prime Minister for giving him a chance to participate in the conference.[Read More…]
Man from Pune reports alien activity to the Prime Minister!
It is not unknown to spot suspicious crop circles and alien sightings is not a new one. After all, spotting a real-live ‘ET’ (extraterrestrial) is a childhood dream so many of us harbor! Alas, most of the supposed ‘alien sightings‘ these days must be taken with a pinch of salt.[Read More…]
PMO accepts Surjit Bhalla’s resignation from Economic Advisory Council
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted the resignation of economist Surjit Bhalla as part-time member of his Economic Advisory Council (EAC), the PMO said on Tuesday. Bhalla resigned from his post on December 1. A senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said his resignation would take[Read More…]
PMO denies to share information against RTI on e-tendering scam
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has declined to share action taken on a letter written by Congress leader Ajay Singh to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging large-scale corruption through e-tendering in Madhya Pradesh citing a provision of RTI Act that bars disclosure of “third party” information. The Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh had in July written the[Read More…]
RAW cleanliness drive on: Sword of Damocles hangs over officials
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is all set to show the doors to more officials on the basis of non-performance. Country’s top security agency RAW had sacked four officials of the Joint Secretary level in August. This time the sword of Damocles seems to be hanging on other 13 officers[Read More…]
Neither PMO nor HRD willing to own up Institutes of Eminence tag fiasco
The Reliance Jio Institute’s selection for the list of India’s Institution of Eminence has outburst a controversy among opposition against government’s decision of including an institute which does not even exist. The government is being criticized for lending favour to Reliance Jio Institute. Though, the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has[Read More…]
RTI on PM Modi, Manmohan Singh’s foreign trips denied as ‘vague’
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has denied information on various expenses incurred in foreign trips by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh, terming the query “vague”, an RTI activist informed. Nutan Thakur a social activist told IANS on Saturday that she had requested the documents from the[Read More…]
Government to corporatise autonomous universities; IIMC to merge with JNU or Jamia
The state-owned institutes such as the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and the Delhi Public Library, are on the verge of being corporatised. While the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will be merging with either the Jawaharlal Nehru University or[Read More…]
PM Modi to flag off first regional flight under UDAN scheme today
PM Narendra Modi will flag off the first regional flight under the ‘Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN)’ scheme on Thursday. The flight will be between Shimla and Delhi, the aviation ministry announced on Wednesday. “The Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the first UDAN flight under RCS on[Read More…]
TN farmers run naked near Prime Minister’s office
Farmers from Tamil Nadu, who have been protesting in Delhi, took off their clothes and rolled through the roads near Prime Minister’s Office in Delhi on Monday. Police later arrested them. Farmers resorted to this mode of protest after they were denied appointment to meet Prime Minister. On Monday morning,[Read More…]
PM of Sweden invites PM Modi for an official visit
Cost of PM Modi’s social media outreach ‘zero’
PM refused to meet all-party delegation: Kerala CM
PMO clears Air India bill worth Rs 119 crore
Prime Minister’s Office claimed that bills worth Rs 119 crore pending towards Air India, generated for some foreign visits of Narendra Modi, have been cleared. RTI applicant Commodore (retd) Lokesh Batra said that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on January 30 uploaded on its website the details of bills worth[Read More…]
PMO files: Sonia Gandhi ruled country through NAC during UPA rule?
Government will soon publicize 710 files of the National Advisory Council (NAC) that provide thorough details of how NAC, created by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, influenced the UPA administration between 2004 and 2014. The files show how Gandhi ruled the country from the backdoors while Manmohan Singh remained a ‘dummy[Read More…]
Woman approaches PMO after finding Rs 100 cr in Jan-Dhan account
After finding nearly Rs 100 crore in her Jan-Dhan account in a Meerut branch of a state-run bank, a woman on Monday approached the PMO’s intervention after the bank officials did not attend to her complaint and kept asking her to come some other time. In the complaint, Sheetal Yadav[Read More…]
Reliance Jio used PM Modi’s photo in ads without permission: MoS Rathore
Reliance Jio had used Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph in its print and electronic advertisements without the PMO’s (Prime Minister’s Office) permission. According to an IANS news report, cited by NDTV, this was disclosed by the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Rajya Sabha[Read More…]
Newsd Exclusive: CBI may go headless; Incumbent director Anil Sinha retires on Friday
CBI may go headless as incumbent Director Anil Sinha is due for retirement on Friday. Following the retirement of the incumbent director, speculations were rife that the second in command Rupak Datta, will succeed Sinha. But Datta, a 1982 batch IPS officer was appointed Special Secretary, Home Ministry. With appointment[Read More…]
Is ‘Jan Jan Ki baat’ not an official initiative?
On, Tuesday Narendra Modi has repeatedly appealed Indians to rate his demonetisation move. Narendra Modi’s website claimed that more than five lakh people participated in the ‘Jan Jan Ki Baat’ within a day. Various reports by media organisations and social media implied that the survey was a public relation initiative[Read More…]
MPs may soon get 100% salary hike
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is believed to have agreed to consider a recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament to revise the Parliamentarians’ salary. The MPs can soon expect a steep hike in salary with a 100% raise, taking their basic pay[Read More…]