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PM Modi at 25 years: From Japan’s PM to Belgium’s Prime Minister, world leaders shower love and praise
PM Modi at 25 years: From Japan’s PM to Belgium’s Prime Minister, world leaders shower love and praise
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From Japan and Nigeria to Bhutan, Belgium and Dominica, world leaders congratulated Narendra Modi on completing 25 years as head of government. Here are their messages and the words they used to mark ...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026: Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win for solving a century-old molecular mystery
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how chemical reactions can favour one mirror-image form of a molecule: work with major implications for pharmac ...
The Modi Years: A nation rebuilt by the struggles and sagacity of one man
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‘Struggle’ is the motif that mythicises this milestone in Modi’s life. It is perhaps the only word that shifts the moral balance of power, and it is unlikely that any other politician in India has ach ...
PM Modi’s 6 goals for India: From 25 years in public service to a 2047 vision
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As PM Narendra Modi marked 25 years as head of government, he outlined six ambitions for India: from becoming a top-three economy and a global manufacturing hub to hosting the Olympics and entering hu ...
Beating the Odds, Again and Again
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Narendra Modi’s cultural rootedness is his moral lodestar while his governance synthesises ideological goals and the greater good
Opposition's Attack on Election Commission Has Gone Beyond "Legitimate Boundaries": Harish Salve
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The former Solicitor General says the Commission's clarification should have ended the dispute over alleged differences among election commissioners, and calls the Form 6 question a separate matter fo ...
Aarambh Hai Prachand: The Voice, the Mischief & Brand Piyush Mishra
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From songs embraced by young listeners to Google’s emotional reunion and Flipkart’s mischievous sales pitch, Piyush Mishra brings a grainy voice, theatrical flair and a willingness to laugh at himself ...
3 Years After Hamas Attack, Israeli Family Walks India in Son's Footsteps
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Dror Bahat came to India after the army and never stopped loving it. Three years after he was killed at the Nova festival on October 7, his parents and sisters went looking for the places he loved, an ...
"Trust of Millions of Indians My Greatest Strength": PM Modi on 25 Years in Public Office
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The Prime Minister credits "Janardan," the people, and thanks BJP and NDA colleagues at a celebration in Delhi a day after the Cabinet passed a resolution in his honour