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Feb 28, 2015
Mar 10-11, 2015
Mar 11-13, 2015
Mar 13-14, 2015
Modi’s techno-minister
Suresh Prabhu, Railway
Minister, presented his
first budget.
Aiming to give a thrust
towards developing
strategic assets, PM
Narendra Modi visited
Victoria in the tiny
island country of
Seychelles and inked
a pact to develop
the infrastructure of
Assumption island.
PM Modi’s visit to the
island country firmed up
plans towards building
strategic assets in
Agalega in Mauritius.
The first Indian PM to
visit Sri Lanka after
Rajiv Gandhi in 1987,
Narendra Modi met
newly-elected President
Maithripala Sirisena in
Colombo and travelled
to the Tamil-majority
Jaffna province.
Mar 15, 2015
Mar 29, 2015
Mar 22, 2015
April 9-12, 2015
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley presented the
full fledged and muchawaited
General Budget
2015 that had a bit for
every class of society.
PM, Modi joined other
world leaders to bid
goodbye to Singapore’s
founding father Lee
Kuan Yew. The Prime
Minister called Lee
one ‘among the tallest
leaders of our times.’
As the government
battled extreme heat
over the controversial
land acquisition bill,
PM, Modi spoke to
thousands of farmers
over the radio, trying to
dispel rumours that his
policies are anti-farmer.
PM, Modi signed a deal
with France for supply
of 36 Rafale jets in flyaway
condition along
with a railway protocol
to develop a semi highspeed
railway corridor.
April 12-14, 2015
April 14-16, 2015
April 14, 2015
April 17, 2015
PM, Modi arrived in
Berlin and held talks
with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel. He also
inaugurated the India
pavilion at the worldfamous
Hannover
technological fair.
Canada signed a
landmark agreement
of long-term supply of
Uranium to India.
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj announced
on Twitter that the Indian
embassy in Yemen was being
evacuated in light of the war
there. The government has
launched a massive rescue
operation earlier in the wartorn
country to save thousands
of Indians fleeing Yemen. Many
countries took the assistance
and help of India to evacuate
their citizens.
PM, Modi undertook
a three-nation tour to
France, Germany and
Canada, exhorting
industrialists and CEOs
to contribute to the
‘Make in India’ program
of the government.
April 25, 2015
May 7, 2015
May 14-16, 2015
May 18-19, 2015
The Modi government’s
swift and quick response
to the Nepal was highly
praiseworthy. Within
forty minutes of the
first tremors, Modi
had sent out his first
tweet responding to the
disaster.
Foreign Minister Sushma
Swaraj got a round of
applause from all quarters
in the Parliament as
members across the
treasury and opposition
benches came together
to pass a constitution
amendment bill for a
historic land boundary
agreement with
Bangladesh.
PM, Modi started his
visit to China in Xi’an,
the hometown of
President Xi Jinping.
He also visited Beijing
and Shanghai and held
extensive meetings
with the top Chinese
leadership and several
business leaders.
During PM, Modi’s
visit to Seoul, India and
South Korea inked seven
agreements, including
avoidance of double
taxation and formalising
consultations between
National Security
Councils of the two
nations.
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