The Union home minister was speaking at the 'News18 Rising Bharat Summit’ in New Delhi.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the race hosted as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday celebration programmes under 'Sewa Pakhwara' at Dhyanchand Stadium here.
The council meeting will discuss matters of interest among the states and also between the states and the central government
Accompanied by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi and other senior BJP leaders, Shah, after offering prayers, waved at the devotees standing in queues outside the shrine.
Over 250 students received their management degrees in rural management during the ceremony. ”Mahatma Gandhi had said the soul of the country is in our villages and I firmly believe that,” the Union minister said.
Addressing a rally on the outskirts of the north Odisha town of Bhadrak, the BJP stalwart said that Modi will continue to serve as prime minister after the Lok Sabha polls for his "honesty, integrity and performance".
The ministry has decided to deploy central forces at the official and residential premises of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in West Bengal and the MHA is now "closely monitoring the situation", they said.
Addressing IPS probationers at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (NPA) here, Singh advised the passing out cadets to take a vow to eradicate such problems.
A special CBI court in Panchkula yesterday convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of rape, triggering widespread violence that claimed at least 31 lives -- 29 in Panchkula and at least two in Sirsa.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who returned from a Ladakh tour on Wednesday, was set to brief the Prime Minister at the Cabinet Committee on Security meet, which was expected to be attended by senior ministers as well.
Concerned over slow spending, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked officers of his ministry to ensure utilisation of 50 per cent of over Rs 75,000 crore budget by next-month end.
"Normally a person active in politics is concerned with political role but it's for the first time that the country is witnessing a Prime Minister not only playing his political role but is also not behind in playing a social role," Singh said while launching an integrated waste management project in South Delhi.
"India today is the center of global diplomacy and no nation can ignore us. India's economy is the fastest growing economy in the world," Singh said while attending a programme in Udaipur.
At least 75 members of the intelligentsia have returned national or literary awards in an escalation of protests by writers, historians, filmmakers and scientists over "growing intolerance", voicing fears that the country's robust democracy might be "coming apart" in the current atmosphere.
"The world economy is in crisis. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India has grown by 48 percent while in other countries, FDI growth is 18 percent less," Rajnath Singh said.
This came after the Attorney General, representing the Madhya Pradesh government, told the apex court that the state government was open to a CBI probe.
Following Shivraj Singh Chouhan's announcement at a press conference, the state government moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking its direction for institution of a CBI probe into the massive admission and recruitment scam.
The Union Minister further clarified that Raje's son Dushyant's deal with Lalit Modi's company was purely a commercial one. Notably, the same was asserted by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday.
According to reports, Modi and Singh discussed the government strategy to tackle the continued attack by the opposition over the issue. They also discussed government‘s plan to move Supreme Court for revocation of Lalit Modi‘s passport.
Kejriwal also invited Singh to his oath-taking ceremony at the Ramlila Grounds on February 14.
Union home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Friday that he would visit Pune, which was rocked by serial blasts on August 1, on Saturday.
The government today claimed the country would bounce back to eight per cent growth rate this financial year and held there was no paralysis in the UPA II government as alleged by some sections.
The Madras high court on Thursday declined to dismiss a petition challenging the election of Union home minister P Chidambaram to the Lok Sabha in 2009 but struck down two charges of malpractices against him.
Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu today appealed to students and youth of Telangana not to resort to extreme actions like suicide even as he demanded that the ruling Congress take a decision immediately on the contentious statehood issue.
Amid fears that crucial evidence from the sites of bomb blasts might have been wiped out as rains lashed the city, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said Maharashtra forensic experts have done a "good job" in collecting the relevant forensic evidence.