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Lahore, Dec 23: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said he will "show" the Narendra Modi government "how to treat minorities", amidst controversy over Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah's remarks on mob violence in India. Shah finds himself at the centre of a major controversy over his remarks on the spate of mob lynching cases in India following the killing of a policeman in Uttar

Samastipur, Dec 23: Senior CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday asserted that no clean chit has been given to the Narendra Modi government in the Rafale deal by the Supreme Court, which has "merely stated" that it did not have the jurisdiction to intervene in the matter. The former Rajya Sabha member said the Opposition has, therefore, been seeking a probe by Joint Parliamentary Committee

Hyderabad, Dec 23: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday alleged that Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das was involved in corruption and termed his recent appointment to the top post a "surprise". Swamy, however, did not give any specific details about the "corruption", an allegation he had made in the past as well. "The new governor of (RBI) is highly corrupt. I got him removed from

Shimla, Dec 23: A local resident has been booked for making derogatory remarks against Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Vadra on Facebook, the police said Saturday. A first information report has been registered against Ranbir Singh Negi on the basis of a complaint by Himachal Youth Congress president Manish Thakur, Shimla Deputy Superintendent of Police Pramod Shukla said

Pune, Dec 23: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said party leadership should own up to defeat and failures, adding that nobody is willing to take responsibility of failure, unlike success. The cryptic remark of the Union Minister came after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost three 'Hindi heartland' states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh — in the recently-concluded Assembly

Ahmedabad, Dec 23: A mid-air medical emergency on board an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai to Myanmar's Yangon forced the aircraft to divert to the city airport in Ahmedabad today. The aircraft contacted the Ahmedabad Air Traffic Control (ATC) this afternoon after a five-year-old British national on board the flight developed medical complications, the airport authorities said in the statement

New Delhi, Dec 22: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested James Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in Augusta Westland VVIP Chopper deal case. The designated Special court allowed the probing agency to interrogate Michel inside the court room for 15 minutes after the agency sought his custodial interrogation. The Central probe agency arrested Michel under Prevention of Money

Kathmandu, Dec 22: Twenty-three people died while 14 others sustained injuries when a college bus carrying students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged into a gorge in western Nepal, police said on Saturday. The rescuers have recovered 19 male bodies and four female from the incident site, Kathmandu post reported. The injured are receiving treatment at the Kohalpur Medical

Sharjah, Dec 21: Ibrahim Al Jarwan, member of the Arab Union for Space and Astronomy Sciences, AUAS, said that on Saturday, December 22, 2018, the Sun will be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere, which occurs when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. Al Jarwan added that either December 20, 21, 22 or 23, will be the longest midnight of the

Dec 21: A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of “21 cows”. MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly constituency in Bulandshahr, also said only the people have the power to remove a chief