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Chennai, Dec 4: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa will return home "soon" as an AIIMS expert team has confirmed that she has completely recovered after over two months of hospitalisation, ruling AIADMK said today. "The AIIMS doctors visited the hospital yesterday and after examining her (Jayalalithaa's) health, they shared the good news with us that Amma (meaning mother as Jayalalithaa is

Amritsar, Dec 4: In a clear message to Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for "resolute action" not just against forces of terrorism but also against those who support, shelter, train and finance them, saying silence and inaction will only embolden terrorists and their masters. In his address at the 6th conference of Heart of Asia, a platform to help Afghanistan in its transition

Amritsar, Dec 4: Narendra Modi distributed food to devotees at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Saturday night thus becoming the first Prime Minister to serve the community kitchen, or langar, at the holiest of Sikh shrines in this Punjab city, It was the Prime Minister's first visit to the shrine and he was accompanied by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. The visit came on the sidelines of the

Muzaffarnagar, Dec 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday acknowledged the inconvenience caused to people by demonetisation policy and warned those who were stashing their black money into the Jan Dhan accounts of poor. "Demonetisation move would end all the problems, including poverty, corruption and black money in India," PM Modi said. Modi was speaking at Bharatiya Janata Party's

New Delhi, Dec 4: A Bengaluru-bound Jet Airways plane from Kolkata, with 147 passengers and eight crew members onboard, was on Saturday diverted to Hyderabad where it made an emergency landing after its pilot reported some technical problem. On landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, one of its tyres burst, however, all the passenger were deplaned safely, Hyderabad airport

Amritsar, Dec 4: Pakistan Premier's foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz along with foreign ministers of four countries Saturday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who told them that it was important to end terrorism and violence for fostering stability in Afghanistan and the region. The Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Slovakia, which holds the European Union Presidency

New Delhi, Dec 3: Pakistan has lodged a strong protest with India over its diplomats in the High Commission here allegedly not being allowed to withdraw their salaries, which is paid in US dollars, by the bank. Asserting that not allowing its officials to withdraw their salaries was in breach of Vienna Protocol, Pakistan has also threatened that in case the matter is not resolved soon, it may

Amritsar, Dec 3: As Afghanistan faces the resurgence of Taliban, a conference of major regional and global powers began today in this holy city to explore ways to effectively deal with threat of terrorism in the region, its complex security matrix and help the war-ravaged nation in its transition. Being attended by nearly 40 countries and leading groupings like the European Union, the annual

Kolkata, Dec 3: Mamata Banerjee left Nabanna at 6.20pm on Friday, after spending 30 hours and 14 minutes in the CMO, easily the longest time a Bengal chief minister has spent at the government headquarters since 1977. An hour earlier, around 5pm, the last of the Army trucks accused of "surveillance" by the Bengal government left its toll booth posting at Ghoshpukur in Jalpaiguri, about 600km away

New Delhi, Dec 2: In a major crackdown on bank employees involved in irregularities post demonetisation, as many as 27 senior officials of various public sector banks have been suspended and six others transfered to check corrupt practices. The suspensions comes amid reports of Income Tax authorities conducting search and seizure places at many places, including one at Bengaluru where Rs 5.7 crore