He will travel the 8km stretch from Katra to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on February 7 to dedicate to the nation a bridge on Saryu River.
The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal of 2008, brokered during Manmohan Singh's tenure as Prime Minister, is seen as a crowning achievement in his foreign policy legacy. The agreement ended India's nuclear isolation, fostered a strategic partnership with the US, and opened doors to advanced technologies and defense cooperation. This historic deal also laid the groundwork for India's engagement with the global nuclear community.
The prime minister's statement in the Lok Sabha on his J&K visit.
He said the CBI would go into all aspects of the bribery allegations.
A retired Indian Army General has blamed India's "timid" response to the Pakistani military ingress in Kargil in 1999 for the series of terrorist strikes beginning with the attack on Parliament in 2001.
There is a need to strengthen the organisation, Vajpayee said referring to the BJPs poor show in the Himachal election.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday admitted that eight per cent growth was difficult due to drought but was not impossible if the challenges were faced in unity, shunning political differences.\n\n
Vajpayee said the 'energy' generated after the Gujarat elections should be used in a balanced manner to help protect the values in life.
'We need to enhance revenues and address the problem of untargeted, runaway subsidies,' Vajpayee said while inaugurating the National Development Council meeting.
But partymen should not be overconfident and must work towards the BJPs success in the coming assembly polls, party spokesman V K Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying.
This is the first time parliamentarians are caught on camera accepting bribes to raise questions.
The Uttar Pradesh government, which had made budgetary allocation of crores of rupees for installation of statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her mentor Kanshi Ram in the state, has said it is a wrong notion that only statues of dead persons can be installed.
The former Prime Minister said India needed to talk bluntly with Pakistan in this regard.
The Commission has not given any time frame for the President's office to give the letters.
BJP President and Leader of Opposition L K Advani on Tuesday conceded that the National Democratic Alliance's boycott of the Budget session of Parliament had created a 'wrong perception' in the public.
The BJP has decided to set up a three-member team to interact with Chief Minister Mayawati every fortnight.
The 16-day yatra began from Hubli in Karnataka and travelled nearly 3,500 km through seven states and one Union territory.
They have asked for information to be provided before November 23.
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the killing of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's grandnephew, who was thrown out of a running train near Kosikalan in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Sunday.
The Commission, whose extended term is expiring on June 31, closed the proceedings with conclusion of the deposition of its key witness Kalyan Singh during whose tenure as chief minister the medieval monument was razed on December 6, 1992.
The BJP has announced its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections across multiple states, including Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Odisha, and Haryana.
Akali Dal member of Parliament and former speaker of the Punjab assembly, Charanjit Singh Atwal, was today unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Vajpayee had resigned just 13 days after being in power due to lack of numbers.
Divestment Minister Arun Shourie will meet Law Minister Arun Jaitly in New Delhi on Thursday to consider options before the government and chalk out future strategy.
The group of ministers on telecom will hold its first meeting on Thursday to resolve the contentious issues in the sector, including the prolonged fight between the cellular and basic operators over WLL mobile services.
Stepping up its offensive against the United Progressive Alliance government on the "tainted" ministers issue, the National Democratic Alliance on Friday decided to boycott the presentation of Railway Budget by Lalu Prasad Yadav in Lok Sabha on Satur
Asked if she would play Holi with Vajpayee and Advani, she said, 'Certainly not.'
Major central trade unions, including financial institutions and state and central government employees associations, will go on a nationwide strike on February 24.
The meeting assumes significance in the context of an uneasy relationship between the BJP and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
