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NEW DELHI: As the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government completes 100 days in office during its second successive term, majority of people seem to be satisfied with its style of working while considering the revocation of Article 370 as its top achievement. In a survey conducted by ABP News, over 41 per cent of the respondents rated the Modi government's performance as "excellent" and over 27 per cent people termed it "good". The survey was conducted across all states in the last week of August with a sample size of 11,308. When asked which move of the government they consider as its "top achievement", over 54 per cent of the respondents chose the scrapping of the special state of Jammu and Kashmir while over 21 per cent opted for "stronger law against terror". About 73.1 per cent people said the Kashmir move is going to benefit the NDA government. The Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcated … [Read more...] about ABP News Survey: Narendra Modi Beats Nehru, Indira, Vajpayee To Emerge Best Ever Prime Minister

New Delhi: Several Opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee, took to social media to wish Prime Minister Modi on his 69th birthday, while hashtags related to Modi birthday continue to trend on social media. The BJP is celebrating Modi's birthday as 'Seva Saptah' starting September 14. The party has announced that several social initiatives will be undertaken by the party leaders across the nation during this week-long period . Opposition party leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi,  Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee extended greetings to the PM. My best wishes to Narendra Modi Ji on his 69th birthday. May he be blessed with good health and happiness [email protected] — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 17, 2019   "Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi has extended her greetings to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on his Birthday. She wished him a healthy, happy and long life," the … [Read more...] about PM Modi Birthday: Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Other Opposition Leaders Extend Greetings To Prime Minister

The Modi PMO is like none other.IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a round of the PMO soon after assuming office. On extreme left, in the pink shirt, is Nripendra Misra, principal secretary to the prime minister. "Man! What a cat!" exclaimed a 30-something investment banker, unwittingly slipping back into college lingo, such was his excitement after a meeting with T V Somanathan (Tamil Nadu IAS, 1987), joint secretary in the Prime Minister's Office handling finance and capital markets. Amid moves made after the 2016-2017 Budget that suggested a redefinition of long-term capital gains, with potentially profound tax effects on the earnings of foreign institutional investors, managers have been making a beeline to the finance ministry, PMO, anybody who will listen, to impress upon the government what a bad idea this is. In Somanathan, they have found a worthy sparring partner. "He listens to you quietly and then catches you out with a gentle query that comprehensively demolishes … [Read more...] about All the Prime Minister’s officers

Kozhikode Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led government over its economic policies, saying the country was in "trouble" as the Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah were "living in their own imagination" and have no contacts with the outside world. Beginning his three-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency Wayanad in north Kerala, Gandhi said Prime Minister Modi is in trouble as the "imaginary world," which he has created is falling apart. The Congress leader was responding to a query on the government's claim that there was no financial crisis in the country. "Mr Amit Shah and Mr Narendra Modi live in their own imagination. They have no contact with the outside world. They live in their own world and they fantasise about things. That is why the country is in such trouble," Gandhi told reporters here. In fact if Narendra Modi listens to the people of the country there wouldn't be any problem, he said. The Congress leader … [Read more...] about Rahul Gandhi Takes Dig at PM Modi and Amit Shah, Says Their Imaginary World Troubling the Country

Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday after over 100 days behind bars in the INX Media case, hit out at the Centre over the state of economy, saying the government was wrong because it was “clueless”. Chidambaram said: "Prime Minister has been unusually silent on the economy. He has left it to his ministers to indulge in bluff and bluster. The net result, as the Economist put it, is that the government has turned out to be an ‘incompetent manager’ of the economy." Get the best of News18 delivered to your inbox - subscribe to News18 Daybreak. Follow News18.com on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and on YouTube, and stay in the know with what's happening in the world around you – in real time. P Chidambaram … [Read more...] about ‘PM Clueless, Left Ministers to Bluff & Bluster’: Day 1 Out of Jail, Chidambaram Trains Guns at Govt on Economy