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Nay Pyi Taw, Sept 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and the two leaders discussed ways to further cement the bilateral relations. “Prime Minister Modi and Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi meet in Myanmar, discuss further cementing of India-Myanmar relations,” PMO said in a tweet. “Meeting a valued friend. Prime Minister Modi with the State

Srinagar, Sept 6: The NIA on Wednesday conducted searches at 16 locations in Kashmir and Delhi on traders who were allegedly indulging in hawala operations and using the money for funding terror and separatist activities, officials said. Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency swooped down on traders at various parts of Srinagar and North Kashmir this morning and carried out extensive search

Lucknow, Sept 5: With over 350 kids dying, many from an alleged shortage of oxygen, at two state hospitals in Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad within a period of one month, an embarrassed Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath, seems to have launched a cover up exercise. UP government's ''flip-flop'' was clearly exposed on the deaths at Farrukhabad district hospital, where as many as 49 kids

New Delhi, Sept 5: Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elevated as the Congress President next month after the culmination of the organisational elections currently under way across the country. Though there is no opposition from within the party to the much-anticipated change of guard at the helm, Rahul is expected to take the election route to the post instead of being appointed by the Congress Working

Xiamen, (China), Sep 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping today held their first substantive bilateral meeting after the Dokalam standoff and reaffirmed that maintaining peace and tranquillity in the border areas was a pre-requisite for ties to move forward. Modi, who attended the BRICS Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Dialogue earlier in the day, met Xi on the

New Delhi, Sept 4: The RBI has told a parliamentary panel that it has "no information" on how much black money has been extinguished as a result of demonetisation of Rs 500/1,000 notes or about unaccounted cash legitimised through exchange of currency post note ban. Stating that an estimated Rs 15.28 (rpt) 15.28 lakh crore in junked notes has come back "subject to future corrections based on

Vrindavan, Sep 3: Backing the government on demonetisation, the RSS today said people are now realising that the move to ban high denomination notes will benefit the country in the long run. The top brass of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh along with office bearers of its allied organisations held a closed door meeting for three days which ended here. However, earlier some Sangh affiliates had

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted 9 new ministers into his cabinet. This is expected to be the last cabinet reshuffle before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The swearing-in ceremony took place this morning at the Rashtrapati Bhavan where President Ram Nath Kovind administered oath to the new members of the Union Council of Ministers as well as those who were elevated to cabinet rank. Shiv Pratap

New Delhi, Sep 3: Nirmala Sitharaman emerged as the biggest gainer of the cabinet reshuffle today as Prime Minister Modi gave her the heavyweight Defence portfolio, while Piyush Goyal replaced Suresh Prabhu in the Railway Ministry in a major rejig, which saw nine new faces being inducted. Sitharaman became the first woman Defence Minister of the country since Indira Gandhi held the charge

New Delhi, Sep 3: The nine new members to be inducted in the Union council of ministers include four former senior bureaucrats and also BJP leaders from the states of Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh which go to polls in the near future. Here are their short profiles: 1) Sixty-four-year-old Ashwini Kumar Choubey was a health minister in Bihar. A BJP veteran, he was born at Dariyapur in