Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 48 hours.
'Where is the spirit of Team India?' asks Chandrababu Naidu.
In a bid to promote the ambitious 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' (Clean India Mission), Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani made a surprise visit to a government school in Delhi and participated in a cleaning drive.
Sitharaman said the government also proposes Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana to address critical infrastructure gap in fisheries sector.
Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
Wielding a broom, the prime minister took part in the drive along with fitness influencer Ankit Baiyanpuriya.
Modi govt pushed very hard the concept of smart cities in 2014.
The prime minister also praised the Dawoodi Bohras, a sect within Shia Islam known for their trading and business acumen, for their efforts in making the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a success.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wendesday asked the National Cadet Corps to try and create a world record by doing yoga across the country at the same time on June 21, the 'International Day of Yoga', as declared by United Nations last month.
'Every day, I give you some or the other reason.' 'But we should not do politics over the need to bring about change in society.' 'We should follow a collective responsibility and you will see that things will change,' says Narendra D Modi.
BJP chief J P Nadda on Thursday launched 'Lokkho Sonar Bangla' (target to build golden Bengal) manifesto crowdsourcing campaign to seek suggestions from more than two crore people in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday that the number of public grievances received by the government has increased from 2 lakh in 2014 to nearly 22 lakh at present, and added the 10-fold rise reflects the trust people have shown in the current dispensation.
SmartCity project is in advanced stage.
No prizes for guessing what the BJP's election campaign is going to be, and who will provide important inputs for it.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over her demise.
All eyes will be on what the prime minister says as his August 15 addresses have often been marked by big announcements, his government's achievements and bringing to people's attention what he believes to be the major challenges facing the country.
'Will Modi succeed with the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan? He will not, because cultural change does not come purely from legislation and never overnight. It comes internally and this is something Gandhi understood,' says Aakar Patel.
The Gujarat high court on Monday said it does not have faith in the state machinery which gets into action only after innocent lives are lost, as it pulled up the Rajkot civic body over the purported lapses in functioning of the game zone facility where a massive fire killed 27 persons.
Over 14,000 policemen were deployed across the city for the security of Adityanath.
Here's what could be ahead for India: A $10-trillion economy by 2030-32, a Sensex at 1,00,000 by 2025, monthly GST revenues at Rs 2 trillion by 2024-25, 100 new unicorns by 2025, and poverty below 5 per cent by 2030, predicts R Jagannathan.
'I remember that when I was about seven years old, a doctor saw me and told my family that I would only survive for six months and that the disease had no cure. But my mother never gave up. She would always say, 'My son is born to become a renowned wrestler'.'
World leaders, including Modi, also inaugurated the Gandhi Solar Park at the UN headquarters here and released a commemorative stamp issued by the UN on the occasion of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.
Huge television screens, flags, flashy lights and a 10,000-bike cavalcade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's homecoming was nothing short of being spectacular.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
In the three decades since reservation of seats for women in panchayati raj institutions was introduced, the country saw women dismantling gender barriers to take the lead in the political field at the grassroots level and excel in it.
Gandhi asked the students whether 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' ('Clean India Mission') was working, to which most replied in a resounding 'yes'.
This will also be his first August 15 address after coming back to power with a huge mandate.
Noted lyricist Prasoon Joshi will replace him as the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification.
Chief ministers of states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka were among those who raised the issue of loan waver scheme for farmers.
The 'wall of shame' is a novel method planned by Nadia district administration in which names of those who defecate in the open would be pasted on a village wall.
Naidu was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit back at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for accusing his government of not fulfilling poll promises, saying those seeking account of his performance in 4 months in power, have done little in the last 60 years.
If Mr Modi has to win, he must convince the people of this country how his reforms improved the quality of their lives.
The outfit suggested that the government amend the Information Technology Act to classify all such content as pornography, which people should only be able to access by punching in their Aadhaar details or their fingerprints. Archis Mohan reports
The PM was interacting with secretaries of various department.
Almost 3.3 million houses awaiting completion under the IAY will be built by the end of 2016-17.
In the 2020-21 Budget, the prime minister and the finance minister are keen to stamp their narrative, after various rollbacks following the previous Budget, said top government sources. Besides the scheduled meetings, the sources said, the Prime Minister's Office is expected to hold several meetings with top secretaries and officials on various ongoing schemes, their performance and also how some of them could be tweaked for better results.
The number of terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant decline since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
With clouds of storm hovering over Parliament's budget session, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday sought the "cooperation" of all MPs in the smooth conduct of legislative business but gave no indication of plans to bring changes in the controversial land acquisition ordinance.
2015 is going to witness new agreements on climate change.
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