"When countries around the world are increasingly thinking about their own interests, Bharat cannot simply remain a market for the world."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi staked India's claim on hypersonics, drones and counter-drone systems as the next frontier of military self-reliance, telling the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort that it must stop buying its way to security and start selling next-generation defence technology to the world.

#Modi #IndependenceDay

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/15/hypersonics-drones-on-independence-day-pm-modi-pushes-india-from-arms-buyer-to-arms-builder

Opposition parties accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using his Independence Day address to stigmatise dissent through his ‘dimaagi Naxal’ remark and questioned his call for 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures, saying the quota law was not implemented in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

#Modi #IndependenceDay

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/15/opposition-says-pm-modis-dimaagi-naxal-remark-stigmatises-dissent-questions-womens-quota-pitch

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged opposition parties to support the delimitation-linked women's reservation bill, the Congress accused him of doing "drama" and said the government should implement the 33 per cent quota on the current strength of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 general election.

#Modi #Congress

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/16/congress-hits-out-at-pm-modi-over-womens-quota-appeal-says-focus-is-on-modi-preservation

In a major outreach to Gen Z, the Modi government is planning to send one Union minister to one university every day to engage with the youth, discuss their concerns and better understand their perspectives on issues facing the country.

It is learnt that Education Minister Pralhad Joshi and Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya have been given the responsibility to coordinate with the universities and the ministers for the visits.

#Modi #GenZ

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/19/modi-govts-gen-z-outreach-one-minister-to-visit-one-university-every-day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said reforms across sectors were a commitment of his government and asserted that India was taking several steps to sustain its growth momentum.

#Modi

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/21/india-has-political-stability-policy-continuity-bright-spot-of-growth-pm-modi

Uzbekistan President Mirziyoyev received PM Modi on arrival at the airport on his fourth visit to the country. The visit aims at strengthening the strategic partnerships between India and Uzbekistan.

#Modi

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Aug/29/pm-modi-arrives-in-uzbekistan-on-two-day-official-visit-aiming-to-bolster-bilateral-ties

India and Belgium have opened a substantive new front in defence-industrial cooperation, with a clutch of agreements spanning naval mine-countermeasure systems, ammunition production lines, 70mm rockets, Zorawar light tank turrets, electro-optics and counter-drone technologies, alongside a government-to-government framework to deepen military cooperation.

The agreements came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Belgian counterpart Bart De Wever in the capital during the first visit by a Belgian prime minister to India in two decades.

#Modi #Belgium

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/03/india-and-belgium-open-defence-production-front-with-mine-warfare-ammunition-rockets-pacts

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked his political opponents over India's latest economic growth figures, saying those responsible for pushing the country into the "Fragile Five" were finding the 7.8% quarterly growth difficult to digest.

Speaking at the centenary celebrations of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Modi contrasted India's economic performance with the situation he said prevailed when he visited the college in 2013, when he was Gujarat chief minister and a member of the opposition.

#SRCC #Modi #SRCCCentenaryCelebrations

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/05/modi-slams-critics-over-78-gdp-growth-says-those-behind-fragile-five-cant-digest-figures

The Belgian chocolate India Gate that missed a diplomatic ceremony after melting in transit from Belgium to India was finally unveiled. Well, sort of.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever had planned to present Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the sweet replica on Friday during their bilateral meeting. But the sculpture proved much less durable than the monument it recreated.

The Belgian Embassy in New Delhi shared a photograph of the broken creation on X, saying De Wever was still determined to get it to Modi “next time.”

“We have a back-up in Belgium, and one way or another, I will get it to Prime Minister Modi in one piece,” he had said.

#Modi #Belgium


🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/05/belgian-pms-chocolate-india-gate-melts-en-route-but-diplomacy-gets-a-sweet-ending

#OPINION | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s discourse on the war in Ukraine while on a visit to Bishkek last week probably had its desired effect of drawing international attention to India’s self-projection as an independent power centre in an increasingly multipolar world. There was a deliberateness in Modi’s attempt as he front-loaded his remarks that were caught on camera during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.

#Modi

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Sep/07/the-limits-of-grandstanding-in-diplomacy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the previous Congress-led regime in the country for the slow pace of development work, adding "Naraz Fufa" (aggrieved uncle) will now question the impact of the dedicated freight corridor on truck drivers.

Modi was addressing a gathering, mostly comprising youngsters, in Gujarat's Vadodara after inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of development projects of Rs 35,000 crore.

“After 2014, India built 50,000 modern rail coaches. The previous (Congress) regime could not build even 50,000 toilets in 10 years,” he said.

#Modi #Vadodara

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/08/nda-built-50000-rail-coaches-after-2014-cong-regime-could-not-build-50000-toilets-in-10-years-pm-modi

Many world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday.

US Embassy in India extended wishes to Modi too, conveying the greetings on behalf of President Donald Trump.

#Modi

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/17/putin-netanyahu-meloni-wish-modi-on-his-birthday-embassy-conveys-greetings-on-behalf-of-trump

Rajasthan's civic polls and Delhi University's student elections happened on the same week — and together they expose a national truth both Modi and Rahul Gandhi are avoiding.

The BJP "won" Rajasthan with 4179 wards to Congress's 3613, but its vote-share lead was under 1%, and independents humiliated the party in the Chief Minister's own hometown of Bharatpur.

Meanwhile Congress matched the BJP almost vote-for-vote but converted that into just one municipal corporation — and then drew a complete blank in Delhi University's student union, losing all four central panel seats.

In this episode of BottomLine, Prabhu Chawla asks the questions neither high command wants to answer: Is Modi's ground game as strong as the headlines suggest? Is Rahul Gandhi's "youth revival" real or rhetoric? And what do organization health, rebel candidates, and vote-to-seat conversion actually tell us about 2028 and 2029? A national reckoning, not a local footnote.

#Modi

https://youtu.be/sE3UoHZkIaI?si=lAmeNFg-dGVWgXH5

The Delhi High Court directed Meta Platforms to immediately remove objectionable social media content containing a woman's morphed picture alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ordered the Delhi Police to provide her complete protection after she said she was receiving threats to her life

The plea alleged that during a recent CJP protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the four leaders and their “active accomplices” unauthorisedly obtained the woman's personal photograph and used artificial intelligence face-swapping tools to morph her face onto a “highly vulgar, compromising image” alongside the Prime Minister.

#CJP #Modi

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Sep/25/delhi-hc-orders-meta-to-remove-morphed-pm-modi-image-issues-notice-to-four-cjp-leaders

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was aware of a dispute over the Election Commission’s IT division restricting electoral registration officers’ access to the ECINet portal, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has alleged.

#Modi

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Oct/03/pm-modi-was-aware-of-ec-restricting-eros-access-to-ecinet-congress

“Today, I have completed 25 years of continuously serving as head of government. This is the blessing of the people. I bow before the people of the country"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his 25 years as head of government were not a matter of personal achievement or glorification, saying he had lived his life driven by a mission rather than personal ambition.

#Modi

https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Oct/07/i-lived-by-mission-not-personal-ambition-modi-marks-25-years-at-helm

BJP is scared of Gen Z, ready to get arrested: CJP's Abhijeet Dipke ahead of Jantar Mantar 2.0 against CEC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ql1DAFIyNo

#OPINION | Mohan Bhagwat turned 76 on 9/11. Ominous or auspicious? I would say the latter. Because unlike RSS haters and baiters, he is so much closer to Swami Vivekananda than the Al Qaeda terrorists at the opposite end of the religious spectrum.

At 76, just past the pinnacle of success, Modi has little left to prove except how power should be exercised, shared, restrained, and eventually passed on.

That is where greatness must be tested.

Modi can still learn from Bhagwat, if not from history. For the finest legacy of a leader is not that people continue to worship him, but that the cause he served becomes strong enough to survive without him.

#Modi #RSS #MohanBhagwat

🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Oct/18/the-tale-of-two-birthdays

The BJP, led by President Nitin Nabin and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of attempting to replicate the street movements seen in Nepal and Bangladesh to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

The Opposition, meanwhile, maintains that protest is a democratic right.

In this episode of Bottomline, Prabhu Chawla examines the debate over street protests, electoral mandates and regime change in a democracy.

From JP Narayan to V.P. Singh and Anna Hazare, what does history tell us about the relationship between mass movements and electoral change?

Can the streets shape political change while the ballot remains the final arbiter? Watch #Bottomline for the analysis.

#Modi #RahulGandhi


🔗https://youtu.be/kKm4wBVbyTg