Smriti Irani, a prominent BJP leader and former Union minister, stated on Tuesday that roughly 250 million people in India have risen out of multidimensional poverty over the last 11 years, during the Modi government's tenure. Pics/PTI and X (@BJP4Jharkhand)

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the dignitaries who joined a prayer ceremony at the memorial of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday to pay tributes to him on his birth centenary. (Pics/PTI)