17 MARCH 2016

Ø  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the ranks of prominent global leaders at Madame Tussauds in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok next month, the world famous wax museum announced today. Describing him as a “hugely important figure in world politics”, the museum said the Prime Minister had given the museum’s team of artists and experts a sitting at his residence in New Delhi earlier this year. A new branch of Madame Tussauds is also set to open in New Delhi as part of the India–U.K. Year of Culture in 2017, as announced during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the U.K. last November.