Narendra Modi’s rule was the most traumatic says Manmohan Singh

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said Narendra Modi’s rule was the most `traumatic` for India’s youth, farmers and traders.`PM Narendra Modi`s rule was the most traumatic and devastating for India’s youth farmers, traders and every democratic institution. Summing up the five-year tenure of the NDA regime as a sad story of governance and accountability failure. Singh further asserted that while the UPA government was open to scrutiny, PM Modi considered his government inscrutable and unaccountable to the litany of corruption charges. `Government that doesn’t believe in inclusive growth, worries about political existence at the altar of disharmony should be shown exit door,` he said with the press.The former PM, who has in the recent past spoken out aggressively against the policies of the BJP government, also assailed PM Modi over his `slipshod policy` on Pakistan.Modi’s slipshod policy on Pakistan was marred by a series of flip-flops  from going to Pakistan uninvited to inviting rogue ISI to Pathankot,` he said.`Government that doesn’t believe in inclusive growth, worries about political existence at the altar of disharmony should be shown exit door,` he said.With the saffron party making nationalism its main poll narrative in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Singh said, `BJP searching for new narratives every day. This reflects bankruptcy of national security vision.

cyclone fani kills at least 12 in india before swiping bangladesh

cyclone fani kills at least 12 in india before swiping Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest to hit India in years, barrelled into Bangladesh on Saturday (May 4) after leaving a trail of deadly destruction in India. Having hit land, tropical cyclone Fani had lost some of its power and was downgraded to a ‘Deep Depression’ by the Indian Meteorological Department. Indian media reported that at least 12 people had died across the state, with most deaths caused by falling trees, but a mass evacuation of 1.2 million people in the 24 hours before the tropical cyclone made landfall averted a greater loss of life.The seaside temple town of Puri, which lay directly in the path of Fani, suffered extensive damage, as winds gusting up to 200 kph (124 mph) tore off tin roofs, snapped power lines, and uprooted trees on Friday. Neighbouring West Bengal escaped substantial damage, but authorities moved nearly 45,000 people to safer locations.The cyclone season in the Bay of Bengal can last from April to December.In 1999, a super-cyclone battered the coast of Odisha for 30 hours, killing 10,000 people. About 1.2 million people living in the most vulnerable districts in Bangladesh had been moved to some 4,000 shelters. The storm destroyed several houses in the Noakhali district, where a two-year-old child was killed and about 30 people were injured, local official Tanmoy Das told reporters.

NewZealand Prime Minister Ardern to marry long time partner

kiwis primier Jacinda Ardern and her long-term partner Clarke Gayford have become engaged to be married, her office said Friday. New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern(38), had Neve last June, becoming only the second prime minister in the world to give birth while in office and later taking the infant onto the floor of the UN Assembly in New York. I can't say anything about it other than they are engaged and it happened over Easter, the spokesman told the press. The engagement comes after a trying time for Ardern, who has been widely praised for her response to the Mar 15 Christchurch mosque shootings that claimed the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers. Ardern said in an interview last year that she would not propose to Gayford, even though she regards herself as a feminist.`I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself,` she told the BBC. News of the engagement broke after journalists noticed Ardern was wearing a diamond ring while carrying out her duties on Friday (3May).

pm narendra modi high level meeting to review preparedness for cyclone fani

The prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Fani. He was briefed on the likely path of the cyclone, and the ongoing precautionary and preparatory measures being undertaken, official sources said. These include provision of adequate resources; deployment of teams from NDRF and the arr angements to provide drinking water; and standby systems to restore power and telecom services.  After reviewing the emerging situation, the prime minister instructed senior officers to maintain close coordination with officers of affected states.