The Latest Breaking News from Narendra Modi

Once upon a time, a politician avoiding tough questions was rare. But times have changed. Why face the pesky journalist armed with facts and follow-ups when you can have a podcaster nod and giggle like their salary depends on it? 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kuwait, his last foreign engagement of 2024, where he collected another “highest civilian honour” from an Arab state, helped Delhi work up some cheer into an otherwise sobering year for India's engagement with the world.

Mourners in India's capital gathered Saturday to pay their respects to former prime minister Manmohan Singh ahead of a state funeral for the man key to the country's economic liberalisation.

Actor Anupam Kher took to social media on Friday to express his sorrow following the passing of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Friday remembered former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as one of the best statesmen of India who transformed the lives of ordinary people through policies initiated during his tenure as prime minister and finance minister. Read further on Dynamite News:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his last respects to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence in Delhi on Friday.

Some years may go by without major surprises. And some years may pass without a scandal. But no year goes by without a new ‘jihad’ flooding the Indian mediascape. 

Singh, one of the architects of India’s economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, held office from 2004 to 2014.

Indian and world leaders pay tributes