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Sharif dons pink turban gifted to him by Modi at wedding

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday announced the action plan of “Start-up India, Stand-up India”, which will be launched on January 16. “My dear young friends, in my August 15 address from the Red Fort, I had made preliminary mention about “Start-up India, Standup India”.

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The programme aims at promoting financing for start-up ventures by banks throughout the country and offer incentives to boost entrepreneurship and job creation. In everything, there should be freshness, new ways, new thinking. “I want to urge state governments also to spread this thought”, Modi said. “On January 16, the government of India will unveil the full Action Plan of Start-up India, Stand-up India”. “All across India youngsters have talent and they need opportunities”. “I would also request the banks to help these youth and encourage them to move ahead”.


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“India came up a lot during the army chief’s visit to Washington, definitely with the Secretary of State [John Kerry] and also others”, a western diplomat said. He used to talk to people and communicate. The Foreign Secretaries of both countries will be meeting in Islamabad on January 15 to announce a roadmap for the new, “comprehensive dialogue” that the two nations have begun.

He noted that festivals and New Year celebrations are the occasions for tourism and appealed to the people to keep the tourist destinations clean so that a good image is presented to the world.

On the government’s “Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme”, he said it has received a place in the Guinness World Records as the largest direct benefit transfer scheme.

As of now, already Rs.40,000 crore has been transferred to the accounts of the beneficiaries through different schemes, the prime minister said.

A senior Indian official in New Delhi also said military backing for peace talks marked a major change, with Janjua’s involvement as national security advisor a key sign that Gen. Sharif supports resuming the dialogue.

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Observing that there has been little discussion over fundamental duties in the country, the prime minister invited people’s views on it by the Republic Day.

At granddaughter’s wedding Nawaz Sharif dons pink turban gifted by PM Narendra Modi