Live
- NSE warns investors against persons promising assured returns in stock market
- No scams during our tenure: DCM DK Shivakumar
- In RS speech, PM Modi turned the tables on Cong's '1/3rd govt' jibe with '20 more' years retort
- Couple buried, children injured after house collapses in Tripura
- Paytm launches 'Health Saathi' protection plan for its merchant partners
- Two held in Punjab for trafficking people to Cambodia
- Channapatna will become Bengaluru: DCM DK Shivakumar
- 'Midfielder' Starmer within striking distance of rewriting history in UK
- Jr Women, Men North Zone Hockey: Uttarakhand, Haryana emerge winners
- Citizens Specialty Hospital Saves 23-year-old with Emergency Neurosurgery
Prez appoints Modi as PM-designate
Droupadi Murmu offers curd to NDA Parliamentary Party leader Narendra Modi after appointing the latter as Prime Minister-designate during a meeting at the Rashtrapati Bhavan ahead of government formation, in New Delhi
Modi to take oath as PM for 3rd time on Sunday at 7.15 pm
New Delhi: Narendra Modi will take oath as the prime minister for a third consecutive term on Sunday evening as President Droupadi Murmu has invited him to form the government. Murmu appointed Modi as the prime minister-designate on Friday after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief J P Nadda handed her a letter on Modi's election as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party and NDA leaders submitted their letters of support.
The president will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the prime minister and other members of the Union Council of Ministers at 7:15 pm on Sunday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the communique said.
Murmu handed over the letter of appointment to Modi, who called on her at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Friday evening.
Addressing reporters in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Modi said he has been appointed as the prime minister-designate by the president. "The president has asked me to work as the prime minister-designate and informed me about the oath ceremony," he said and added that he has informed Murmu that they will be comfortable if the event is held on Sunday evening.
