Infrastructure  

In a scathing attack on the Congress in his first interview during the election campaign season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday wondered if the Congress found EPFO data unreliable or they thought the jobs generated due to infrastructure development under his government are no jobs at all. He said the opposition actually has no data on employment.

Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the Indian jets violated the Pakistani airspace on February 26, dropping payloads without inflicting any casualties or damage to infrastructure. 

 

PM Narendra Modi will be visiting Bengaluru, Hubballi, Kalaburagi in Karnataka and Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. He will be on an inauguration-spree with many developmental programmes lined up.

The Modi government has been trying to provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, as well as a clean and sustainable environment. 

"As India gears up for its upcoming elections, we see little significant movement in its CPI score, which moved from 40 in 2017 to 41 in 2018," the global watchdog Transparency International said.

Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) has invested around Rs 300 crore for better infrastructure and civic amenities in the city

World Bank's current president Jim Yong Kim had earlier this month announced that he would step down from his post in February to join a private infrastructure investment firm. His unexpected departure came nearly three years before the end of his term.

Ever since 2014 when he became Prime Minister, Modi’s government has implemented a host of stuck or neglected legislation, including the celebrated GST, got infrastructure projects going again as only the BJP can, and picked off many of the low-hanging fruits from the previous government’s leavings, deliberations and yojanas. This has left the Congress complaining that most of what Modi has done was mooted or even operational in the UPA era

Japan's Nikkei, Hong Kong's Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite Index, Korea's KOSPI, Paris CSCV 40, Frankfurt's DAX, London's FTSE, US Dow Jones Industrial Average — are all down, but the India's Sensex, Nifty etc are constantly rallying

PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for the Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan metro 5 and Dahisar-Mira Bhayander metro-9 at Kalyan on the occasion