INDIA-UK VIRTUAL SUMMIT
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Required fields Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and The Rt Hon ble Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom held a Virtual Summit today. India and the UK enjoy long standing friendly ties and share a Strategic Partnership underpinned by mutual commitment to democracy, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, strong complementarities and growing convergences. An ambitious Roadmap 2030 was adopted at the Summit to elevate bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership . The Roadmap will pave the way for a deeper and stronger engagement over the next ten years in the key areas of people to people contacts, trade and economy, defence and security, climate action and health.
Virus Second Wave Sweeps Away Modi’s House of Cards
For the past seven years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has privileged optics over substance. That strategy has now spectacularly failed.
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May 04, 2021
Multiple funeral pyres of those patients who died of COVID-19 disease are seen burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
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Since campaigning for prime minister for the first time in 2013-2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s argument for seeking and staying in power has involved several slogans: “good days are coming,” “development of all, appeasement of none,” “minimum government, maximum governance,” and so on all of them building on his pledge of “good governance.” His Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) public relations machinery, along with friendly media organizations, have
In February, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party passed a resolution declaring that the country had “defeated Covid under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.” It hadn’t.
India has been undergoing a severe COVID resurgence since March: Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are escalating faster than anywhere else in the world, while dire shortages of vaccines, medical ingredients, and oxygen tanks have denied countless patients the care they’ve needed. Multiple countries have restricted or banned travel from India after receiving Indian passengers with COVID symptoms, and India has stopped shipping vaccines abroad in order to prioritize its population. Yet even in the face of horrific tragedy, Narendra Modi has refused to establish necessary lockdowns to stop viral spread many individual states have instead enacted their own restrictions, like they were forced to do last year. Instead of focusing on shoring up n
Indiaâs COVID-19 crisis shakes Modiâs image of strength
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Hari Kumar, Karan Deep Singh and Sameer Yasir New York Times,Updated May 2, 2021, 12:53 a.m.
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An image of Narendra Modi, Indiaâs prime minister, in Kolkata ahead of state elections.SAUMYA KHANDELWAL/NYT
NEW DELHI â His COVID-19 task force didnât meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemicâs âendgame.â A few weeks before that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to global leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus.
India âsaved humanity from a big disaster by containing corona effectively,â Modi told a virtual gathering at the World Economic Forum in late January, three tricolor Indian flags displayed in the background.
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