Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said uplifting backward districts of a region will transform the entire state and urged government officials to challenge themselves by taking postings in those districts.

In a bid to empower Muslim women, the government has changed the law by permitting them to travel for the annual Haj pilgrimage without any male attendant, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.

The upcoming new year will be a "special one" because this will see an entry into adulthood and voting age of all those who were born in the year that began the 21st century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that "service to people" was the biggest identity of humankind and also a part of India's culture.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said terrorism has become a global threat almost "as a daily routine" and called for efforts by all humanitarian forces to defeat it.

Attacking the Congress indirectly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said it is in the interest of democracy and the country that political parties develop with true democratic spirit.