The Central government recently issued a gazette notification in which the citations for gallantry awardees whose names were announced on August 15 this year have been mentioned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended heartfelt greetings to the citizens of India on the occasion of Deepavali, describing it as a festival brimming with energy and enthusiasm.
The BJP leader also said that the Congress party are the one who will cry for Batla House, Afzal, and Yakub, but when it comes to nationalistic organisations that have been working for the last hundred years, they are taking all kinds of actions.
India's decades-long battle against Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) has reached a decisive phase, with the number of affected districts dropping sharply from 182 in 2014 to just 11 in October 2025, according to data released by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
Reacting to the Prime Minister's statement, Tiwari told ANI that the Congress party has not backed down in the face of violence, recalling the loss of almost the entire Chhattisgarh leadership due to Maoist attacks.
Even as Pakistan and Afghanistan gear up to meet in Doha to broker a peace after days of border clashes, the Taliban Government said that Afghanistan reserves the right to respond to Pakistani airstrikes on its land.
Noting that 303 Naxalites have surrendered in the last 75 hours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the day is not far when the country will be completely free from Naxalism and that the festivities of Diwali are going to be something truly special in the areas liberated fro
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that "Maoist terrorism is injustice and a grave sin against the nation's youth" and the day day is not far when India will be completely "free from Naxalism and Maoist violence".