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Dhaka, Dec 25: Bangladesh Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said that Rohingya refugees will return to their homeland as soon as the international community and the UN pressurise Myanmar into repatriating them. "Bangladesh government has an extremely tolerant approach towards Rohingyas and we are also working to implement the Rohingya Repatriation deal," Dhaka Times quoted Health Minister

Islamabad, Dec 25: Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav on Monday met his wife and mother at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Pakistani officials said. Accompanied by Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh and a woman Pakistani official, TV footage showed Jadhav's family entering the main building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. and the door shutting behind them. "The meeting between Jadhav and

Bengaluru, Dec 25: The killing of journalist- activist Gauri Lankesh and the boardroom battle at IT giant Infosys marked the high point of variegated developments from Karnataka during 2017, which also saw political parties sounding the bugle for the Assembly polls early next year. Diary entries by a political aide of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, indicating payments to Congress leadership; IT

Florida, Dec 25: Doctors in Florida are planning to remove a 10-pound tumour from a Cuban teen's face. The Miami Herald reports that 14-year-old Emanuel Zayas and his parents recently traveled to Miami on a medical visa. Dr. Robert Marx, chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery for the University of Miami Health System, and a team of surgeons will operate on Jan. 12 at Jackson's Holtz Children's

Pope Francis has used the Christmas Eve Mass to call on the world not to ignore the plight of millions of refugees who are “driven from their land.” Leading a ceremony on Sunday for about 10,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican City, the head of the Roman Catholic Church compared refugees to Mary and Joseph, who had to travel from the Biblical city of Nazareth to Bethlehem but found

Chennai, Dec 24: In a jolt to the ruling AIADMK, sidelined leader T T V Dhinakaran today won the prestigious RK Nagar Assembly bypoll by a thumping margin of over 40,000 votes. Dhinakaran, nephew of jailed leader V K Sasikala, defeated his nearest rival E Madhusudhanan of the AIADMK by 40,707 votes, officials announced as the counting of votes ended. Polling for the seat was held on December 21

Muzaffarnagar, Dec 24: A local court has quashed non-bailable warrants issued against Uttar Pradesh Minister Suresh Rana, BJP MLA Sangit Som and BJP MP Bhartendu Singh in connection with a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. The NBWs were issued on November 15 following permission from the State government to prosecute them. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Madhu Gupta on December 23 quashed non

New Delhi, Dec 24: Backing the protest by doctors in Rajasthan for higher pay and promotions, resident doctors of AIIMS today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "live" their life for a day to understand their stress. In a letter to Modi, the AIIMS Resident Doctors Association (RDA) urged the PM to understand the tremendous pressure on doctors at government hospitals due to the poor

Shimla, Dec 24: Five-term MLA Jairam Thakur is now the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. The decision was taken in the meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in Shimla on Sunday. Central observers for Himachal Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Narendra Singh Tomar were also present for the meeting. "Jairam Thakur will be the Legislature party leader in Himachal Pradesh. Thakur's name was

Dec 24: Israeli forces have indefinitely closed down the northern entrance to the occupied West Bank twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh. On Saturday night, amid ongoing protests over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) decided to close off the DCO checkpoint that connects