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New Delhi, Nov 30: Border Security Force (BSF) Director General K.K. Sharma said on Wednesday that they had instructions to push back the Rohingya to Bangladesh as they become a “liability” once they are arrested. Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Sharma said this year they apprehended 87 Rohingya Muslims along the border, and 76 were “sent back to Bangladesh.” He said it was difficult to

New Delhi, Nov 30: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that he is ready to pay the political price for the steps taken by him for a better India and asserted he would not be deterred. Addressing a gathering here, he said his government is committed to developing a development-centric eco system which is free of corruption and is citizen centric. He also said that post demonetisation, the black

New Delhi, Nov 29: Stepping up his offensive against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the Gujarat elections, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today sought to make the state's ruling BJP accountable for its promises in the last polls. Gandhi also brought up the BJP's 22-year rule in Gujarat and said people were demanding answers. 22 salon ka hisaab, Gujarat mange jawaab (Gujarat demands

New Delhi, Nov 29: A woman flier and an Air India duty manager, also a woman, slapped each other at the Delhi airport on Monday following an argument. The woman, travelling from Delhi to Ahmedabad, arrived 30 minutes late to the airline counter to collect the boarding pass. Air India's Delhi-Ahmedabad flight was scheduled to depart at 5 am and the passenger arrived around 4:20 am. The staff

New Delhi, Nov 28: In what could create a major political ripple, rumours are rife that Rahul Gandhi, who is all set to take over as Congress president, would welcome estranged cousin and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi to join India's Grand Old Party. Senior Congress leader Haji Manzoor Ahmed was quoted as saying by a TV channel that Varun could be inducted into the Congress Working

Ahmedabad, Nov 28: With the Gujarat polls less than two weeks away, the BJP today raked up the issue of an old US diplomatic cable which allegedly quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying that "Hindu terror is a bigger threat" in India than the Pakistan-based LeT, and sought his explanation. Addressing a press conference here, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad referred to the cable which was leaked by

New Delhi, Nov 28: Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday hit out at the prime minister and said the elections were not about "Mr Modi, the individual" but the promised "achhe din" that had not arrived even after 42 months. In a series of posts on Twitter, the former finance minister also asked if Modi had forgotten he was prime minister. "Mr Modi's campaign is about himself, his past and the

New Delhi, Nov 28: Taking strong exception to comments made by people holding public office, including ministers and chief ministers of various states on controversial film Padmavati, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said that such people should refrain from passing remarks till the film is cleared by Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, and justices A M

Hyderabad, Nov 28: Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of US President Donald Trump, in her address today is likely to stress on fuelling the growth of women-led businesses, saying closing the gender entrepreneurship gap worldwide could grow global GDP by as much as 2 percent. In her keynote address to the 8th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit later in the day, she is likely to stress on

Hyderabad, Nov 28: The much-awaited visitor Ivanka Trump has arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here during the wee hours of Tuesday. The flight of the advisor to the US President has landed at the airport at 3 am and she immediately left for Hotel Trident near HICC the venue for the eighth edition of Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017. At the Airport she was given a warm and