India

Chennai, Dec 6: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa died at the Apollo Hospital here on Monday night after battling for life for the past 75 days. The 68-year-old leader was officially declared dead at 11.30 pm by the hospital authorities. “It is with indescribable grief, we announce the sad demise of our chief minister of Tamil Nadu at 11.30 pm,” the Apollo Hospitals said

Chennai, Dec 5: Apollo Hospitals said this evening that a team of its doctors and those from AIIMS was continuously monitoring the health of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and denied as "totally baseless and false" reports that she was no more. "Some TV channels are wrongly reporting that the Honourable CM is no more. It is totally baseless and false. "They are advised to rectify this mistake based

Chennai, Dec 5: With the health of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa deteriorating, party MLAs are scheduled to meet later this evening apparently to chalk out the next course of action. Earlier in the day also the AIADMK MLAs had met at Apollo Hospital, where Jayalalithaa is undergoing treatment, and reportedly discussed the leadership issue among other matters. Though party sources did

Chennai, Dec 5: The condition of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is "extremely grave", the London doctor who is being consulted for her treatment said today. "Unfortunately, and in spite of the progress she had made, her underlying health conditions inevitably meant that the risk of further problems always remained," Dr Richard Beale said in a statement. "The situation is extremely grave

Chennai, Dec 5: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, said to be critical after suffering a cardiac arrest, today continued to remain under close watch of an expert team of doctors at the Apollo Hospitals where she has been undergoing treatment for more than two months. Doctors were closely monitoring the condition of Jayalalithaa and trying their "very best", the hospital said early today

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