PM Narendra Modi to visit Toji temple in Kyoto

PM Narendra Modi to visit Toji temple in Kyoto news in India TV world desk [ Updated 30 Aug 2014, 15:27:20 ]

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe during a dinner at State Guest House in Kyoto on Saturday. (Source: PTI) 

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, right, tour at Toji Temple in Kyoto. Photo: AP

 Moving in unison! PM narendra modi & PM Abe Shinzo at Toji Temple symbolic of India-Japan civilisational commonalities
Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the historical Buddhist Toji temple in Kyoto where he will be making his first and only one public appearance.
He will also be meeting Kyoto’s Governor and Mayor where who is expected to give a presentation on how it has been maintained as a culturally-rich and environment-friendly modern city.
The 8th century Toji temple has very ancient and very strong religious relationship with India. There are rare Buddhist replicas and statues which exist here and which has a very direct and deep connection with India.
The temple was founded at the beginning of the Heian Period just after the capital was moved to Kyoto in the late 700s.
Toji temple is one of Kyoto's many UNESCO world heritage sites.

PM Modi, Abe witness signing of MoU to turn Varanasi into a 'Smart City' in Saturday, August 30, 2014 - 21:00

PM Modi, Abe witness signing of MoU to turn Varanasi into a 'Smart City' in Saturday, August 30, 2014 - 21:00

New Delhi/Kyoto: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived on Saturday at Osaka International airport in Japan on his maiden bilateral visit outside the Indian subcontinent, which is expected to open new vistas in the bilateral ties and take the Strategic and Global Partnership to a higher level.

Clad in a black princecoat, the prime minister met the Japanese delegates present at the airport to receive him. 

India and Japan signed the cultural agreement of Varanasi-Kyoto which focuses on how to preserve heritage while building smart cities. The agreement was signed between Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa and India`s Ambassador to Japan Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said.

Shah defends Rajnath, claims trick to bring party’s image down news on 27, Aug 2014

IN MODHI'S GOVERNMENT  Shah defends Rajnath, claims trick to bring party’s image down news on  27, Aug 2014

 

 BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday defended Rajnath Singh and said all claims against him and his son are baseless.

He also said this is a trick which opposition is posting to bring party’s image down.

Scotching the "rumours", Singh asserted that he would quit politics if even "prima facie" it is proved that any of his family member had been involved in any misconduct.

His statement came in the wake of a report which said he was upset with stories that claimed his son was pulled up by Modi for an alleged "misconduct".

Singh said rumours about alleged wrong doings by his family members have been floating around for the last fortnight.

"In the last 15-20 days, there have been continuous rumours in the air about me and my family. I thought rumours have no basis and these will end in some days.

"But I am seeing that these rumours are gaining momentum day-by-day. I want to assure the nation that the day allegations, even prima facie or even small, are proven against me or my family, I will quit politics and public life and sit at home," he said in a hurriedly called interaction with journalists outside his office in North Block.

Simultaneously, the PMO also issued a statement, rubbishing the reports and dubbing them as "plain lies, motivated and malicious attempt" to tarnish the image of the government.

"This has reference to reports appearing in a section of the media over the past several weeks, mentioning the Prime Minister, and referring to the conduct of some Union Ministers, and alleged misconduct of the Home Minister's son," said statement.

"The reports are plain lies, motivated and constitute a malicious attempt at character assassination and tarnishing the image of the Government," it said.

PM lays foundation stone of the Metro Rail Project in Nagpur 

Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 09:05 

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of ambitious Metro Rail Project in Nagpur on Thursday. Modi is also scheduled to inaugurate the Mouda Super Thermal Power Project Phase I and a flyover on National Highway 6, all in Nagpur.

 The 38.215-km-long project, scheduled to be completed by March 2018, will be funded on equal sharing basis between the state and the Centre with the latter contributing Rs 1,555 crore as equity and subordinate debt.

Nagpur Metro will connect 19.658 km of north-south corridor and 18.557 km of east-west corridor.
The proposed north-south and east-west alignments are expected to provide much needed connectivity to commuters and would traverse through some of the densest and traffic- congested areas of the Orange city.
The alignments are also expected to bring connectivity to the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), educational institutions and logistic hubs in the city.
The two corridors, together, are expected to bring about a total transformation in the city`s urban transportation scenario by considerably reducing traffic congestion and bringing in a fast, comfortable, safe and affordable mass transportation system for the people of Nagpur.
To execute the project, the Cabinet approved setting up of Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation, a senior Urban Development Ministry official said.
While Urban Development Secretary will be the Chairman of the corporation, the Managing Director will be nominated by the Maharashtra government. The company will have 10 nominee Directors on its Board. These would be five nominees of the Government of India and five nominees of the Government of Maharashtra.
Nagpur with a population of 24 lakh people is the third largest city of Maharashtra and 13th largest in the country.
The project is scheduled to be completed by March 2018. Metro services are operational Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore and under various stages on construction in cities including Jaipur and Kochi.

Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, 1.5-cr bank accounts opened across India in one day

Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, 1.5-cr bank accounts opened across India in one day

Friday, 29 August 2014 | PNS | New Delhi

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (left) presenting debit cards to some of the beneficiaries during the launch of the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)’ in New Delhi .

 

Villagers show their zero balance passbooks given under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, near Hyderabad, on Thursday. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar

A record 1.5 crore bank accounts were opened across the country in a single day on Thursday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his Government’s mega scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’, declaring it was aimed at eradicating financial untouchability by providing bank accounts to the poor.

The gigantic exercise was launched simultaneously at 76 centres across the country by 20 Chief Ministers and several Union Ministers, including Information Minister Prakash Javadekar at Pune, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at Chennai, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at Bhopal, Home Minister Rajnath Singh at Lucknow and HRD Minister Smriti Irani at Surat. In all, 600 programmes and 77,852 camps were organised on the first day to open bank accounts.

Launching the scheme at Vigyan Bhawan here,  Modi said by January 28 next year it will cover 7.5 crore people,  who will be provided zero-balance bank account with RuPay debit card, life insurance cover of Rs 30,000 in addition to accidental insurance  cover of Rs 1 lakh. Later the account holders will be provided an overdraft facility of up to Rs 5,000.

“Mahatma Gandhi worked to remove social untouchability and if we want to get rid of poverty, then we have to first get rid of financial untouchability. We have to connect every person with the financial system. And for that, this programme has been given impetus. When a bank account is opened, it’s a step towards joining the economic mainstream,” he said.

Modi regretted that even after 68 years of Independence, not even 68 per cent of the population was covered by the banking system.

Describing the  occasion as a festival to celebrate the liberation of the poor from a poisonous cycle Modi said: “Those who open accounts by January 26, 2015, they will be given life insurance cover of Rs 30,000 over and above the Rs 1 lakh accident insurance. This will help the family.”

In the third phase, he said, these account holders would also be provided micro-pension facility.

 “I believe that when a person opens a bank account, then he or she takes the first step to get connected with the economic system. Today 1.5 crore families got connected with the economic system. This will give a boost to the economy,” he said.

Modi said six months after opening the account the account-holder would be able to get a loan of Rs 5,000 from the bank.

The Prime Minister said the nationwide success of the enrolment drive would give confidence not just to the officials of the Department of Financial Services and banking sectors, but also to officers across the Union Government, that they can successfully achieve the goals that they set for themselves.

“Never before has the Government of India organised a programme of such scale — over 77,000 locations — with the participation of so many Chief Ministers, Union Ministers, Government and bank officials,” the Prime Minister said.

Asserting that the scheme would also help in fighting corruption by plugging leakages in the Government subsidy scheme, Modi said it was easy for the rich to get a loan at low interest rates but the poor were forced to seek loans from moneylenders at five times the rates.

He said a breakthrough was required to overcome the vicious cycle of poverty and debt, and that a breakthrough had been achieved today.

He said there were similarities between the poor getting access to mobile telephones, and getting access to debit cards. They both had the effect of instilling confidence and pride among the poor, he added.

“Now, the poor would be able to do normal bank transactions through non-smart phones as well because of the introduction of new technology by the National Payments Corporation of India,” he said.

While the existing banking network would be geared up to open bank accounts of the uncovered households in both rural and urban areas, the banking sector would be expanding itself to set up additional 50,000 business correspondents, more than 7,000 branches and more than 20,000 new ATMs in the first phase, he said.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said around 58 per cent of the population of the country had bank accounts. “In simple words it means there are still 10 crore families that are away from banking services as they do not have access to banking services, they are also deprived of means of savings,” he said. The ultimate motive of this scheme is that no family should be deprived of this service, he added.

The Finance Minister said mobile banking for the poor would be available through National Unified USSD Platform for which all banks and mobile companies have come together.

Normal bank transaction can be done through any phone across the country, he added.

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10 Facts about Pradhanmantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

• The name “Jan Dhan” was chosen through an online competition on the MyGov Platform and received more than 6000 suggestion from Indian citizens. After evaluation the jury shortlisted “Jan Dhan” which was suggested by 7 individuals.

• The slogan for the Pradhanmantri Jan Dhan mission is expected to be ” Mera Khata – Bhagya Vidhaata” which when translated into English means ” My Bank Account – The Creator of the Good Fortune”:

The Logo of the Mission is depicted below : 

 

• The primary aim of the Jan Dhan Yojana is to bring poor financially excluded people into the banking system by providing them bank accounts and debit cards.

• The scheme will cover both urban and rural areas of India and all bank accounts opened will be linked to a debit card which would be issued under the Ru-Pay scheme. ( Rupay is India’s own unique domestic card network owned by National Payments Corporation of India and has been created as an alternative to Visa and Mastercard.)

• Every individual who opens a bank account becomes eligible to receive an accident insurance cover of up-to Rs 1 Lakh for his entire family.

• The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has set an ambitious target of bringing in more than 7.5 crore un-banked families into India’s banking system by opening more than 15 Crore bank accounts at the rate of two bank accounts per household.

• Once the bank account has been active for 6 months and has been linked to account holders Aadhar identity , they would become eligible for an overdraft of up to Rs 2,500 , which would further be enhanced by the bank to Rs 5000 over time.

• The Jan Dhan Yojana also seeks to provide incentives to business and banking correspondents who serve as link for the last mile between savings account holders and the bank by fixing a minimum monthly remuneration of Rs 5000.

• The long term vision of the Jan Dhan Yojana is to lay the foundation of a cashless economy and is complementary to the Digital India Scheme.

  
  

independence day 15 AUG 2014

 independence day 15 AUG 2014

PRI MINISTER NARENDRA MODHI MAY 26 2014 BIODATA

PRI MINISTER NARENDRA MODHI MAY 26 2014 BIODATA

Narendra Modi effect: Vedanta's Hindustan Zinc to build 10,000 more toilets in Rajasthan in 20 Aug, 2014

Narendra Modi effect: Vedanta's Hindustan Zinc to build 10,000 more toilets in Rajasthan in 20 Aug, 2014

 

Responding to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to corporates to build separate toilets for women, Vedanta Group company Hindustan ZincBSE 0.18 % today announced that it will construct another set of 10,000 toilets in Rajasthan,

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/40506803.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

Responding to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to corporates to build separate toilets for women, Vedanta Group company Hindustan ZincBSE 0.18 % today announced that it will construct another set of 10,000 toilets in Rajasthan,

Responding to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to corporates to build separate toilets for women, Vedanta Group company Hindustan ZincBSE 0.18 % today announced that it will construct another set of 10,000 toilets in Rajasthan,

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/40506803.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Responding to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to corporates to build separate toilets for women, Vedanta Group company Hindustan ZincBSE 0.18 % today announced that it will construct another set of 10,000 toilets in Rajasthan,

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/40506803.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspecting the guard of honour at Red Fort on August 15, 2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspecting the guard of honour at Red Fort on August 15, 2014 

 

   

  Modi has focused on bringing to order India's unruly state apparatus. He has beefed up the Prime Minister's Office, ordered bureaucrats to get to work on time and — in a law passed this week — restricted the power of judges to appoint each other.

  

PM flags off train to Vaishno Devi, names it Shreeshakti Express in New Delhi, July 4, 2014 | UPDATED 17:26 IST

PM flags off train to Vaishno Devi, names it Shreeshakti Express in  New Delhi, July 4, 2014 | UPDATED 17:26 IST

 Trains will be able to reach Katra directly as the 53-km Jammu-Udhampur rail line is already operational. This would enable lakhs of pilgrims headed to the revered Vaishno Devi shrine to travel directly to the base camp at Katra.

 

 

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Pashupatinath Temple visitors book in Nepal in 6 Aug 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Pashupatinath Temple visitors book in Nepal in 6 Aug 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal in 6 Aug 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal in 6 Aug 2014

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifts sandalwood to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, after praying on Monday. PTI Photo by Vijay Verma

15 th Aug 2014 independence of INDIA

  15 th Aug 2014 independence of INDIA 

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Nation on the 68th occasion of 58th Independence day live from the Red Fort, New Delhi. India is celebrating the 15th of August, and BJP wave has came down strongly, after Naredra’s Modi majority government came into existence since the last Lok Sabha election. Watch the live streaming of Narendra Modi Speech on Independence Day 2014, straight live from Lal Kila, New Delhi. The live streaming will also be available in YouTube to broadcast it in India, ad other overseas countries. Millions of people will expected to tune in to live radio broadcast via, Vividh Bharti Kendra, in all the major official channels. 

 

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Biggest Indian-made warship INS-kolkata photos in Mumbai on August 16, 2014

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Biggest Indian-made warship goes into service by mohi's government to the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on August 16, 2014

Biggest Indian-made warship goes into service by mohi's government to the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on August 16, 2014

 Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of Naval Staff along with other Naval officers during the commissioning ceremony of INS Kolkata (D63) the lead ship of the Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyers at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

 

 

  Prime Minister, Narendra Modi (3rd from right) flanked by Defence Minister, Arun Jaitley, Maharashtra Governor, K Shankarnarayanan and Maharashta Chief Minister Pritviraj Chavan during the commissioning ceremony of INS Kolkata (D63) the lead ship of the Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyers at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

 

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi along with Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of Naval Staff during the commissioning ceremony of INS Kolkata (D63), the lead ship of the Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyers at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi along with Maharashtra Governor K Shankarnarayanan, Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan, Union Defence Minister, Arun Jaitley and Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of Naval Staff during the commissioning ceremony of INS Kolkata (D63), the lead ship of the Kolkata-class guided-missile destroyers at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai

Fitted with the most advanced weapons systems, including anti-submarine technology, this is the largest stealth destroyer constructed by the MDL and delivered to Indian Navy last month.
It is an advanced version, but significantly more versatile, of the Delhi-Class ships - INS Delhi, INS Mysore and INS Mumbai - which will add considerable teeth to India's maritime warfare capabilities with all-round capabilities against enemy submarines, surface warships, anti-ship missiles and fighter aircraft.
Built under the ambitious Project 15-Alpha, this would be one of the most formidable warships of this class and category anywhere in the world.
Its other prominent features include length of 163 m and width of 17.4 m, with a displacement of 7,500 tonnes and two helicopters on board.
Most of the weapons and sensors fitted on board are of indigenous make.
These include the state-of-the-art BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles, rocket launchers, torpedo tube launchers, sonar Humsa, EWS Ellora and AK-630 guns, giving it a defence capability to counter threats of enemy sea and air attacks.
The ship has been named after 'The City of Joy' Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and the biggest metropolis in east India.
The warship's crest befittingly depicts the landmark Howrah Bridge in the background and a leaping Bengal Tiger in the foreground, both symbolic of the country's cultural capital Kolkata.
This is Modi's second visit to Maharashtra in two months. Last month he visited the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai.