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 NEW DELHI - A four-month-old Pakistani boy suffering from a serious heart ailment will get a fresh lease of life as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj offered him a medical visa on humanitarian grounds. Rohaan, a resident of Lahore, has a hole in his heart and would now get treatment at Noida's Jaypee Hospital. Due to the tensions between India and Pakistan, Rohaan's parents were unable to get a medical visa for their child's treatment...
 NEW DELHI - An Indian hailing from Telengana who was fired upon in California earlier this week is now out of danger, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said. "I have received the report from our Consulate in San Francisco," Sushma Swaraj tweeted late on Thursday night. "The victim Mubeen Ahmed works at a gas station. A gunman demanded money from Mubeen and then fired at him," she said.
 NEW DELHI - In a move that sparked outrage and which NDTV said was "a blatant political attack on the freedom of the press", the CBI on Monday conducted searches at the houses of the news network's co-founder Prannoy Roy for allegedly causing financial losses to a private bank. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against Roy, his wife Radhika, a private company and conducted searches at his south Delhi residence...
 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday organised 'Janata Darbar' and met hundreds of people without prior appointment between 10 a.m and 11 a.m. His ministers and government officials also followed the suit. This was not a one-day exercise, as now Delhi people would not have to seek appointment for meeting the Chief Minister, other ministers or any government officer, according to an official. Kejriwal had last...
 LUCKNOW - Top BJP leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Union Minister Uma Bharti were on Tuesday arraigned in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case by a special CBI court here which ordered framing of charges invoking criminal conspiracy provision against them. A last-minute bid by the three leaders and nine other accused to get discharged from the case was foiled when the court rejected their plea in this regard.
 BERLIN - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Monday on the first leg of a six-day, four-nation European tour that will also take him to Spain, Russia and France. Modi is to hold a private meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her country resort of Schloss Meseberg on Monday evening. Modi is accompanied by Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy...
 NEW DELHI - UAE-based Indian artist Akbar Saheb says he is honoured to be part of a new book based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches broadcast on radio programme 'Mann ki Baat'. Akbar has done the 11 illustrations in the book -- apart from the one on the cover. The book, which deals with topics as diverse as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and bonds of humanity, was unveiled on Friday at Rashtrapati Bhavan here...
 LATUR, MAHARASHTRA - Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and five others had a providential escape when their chopper crash-landed after it got entangled in overhead electric cables in Latur district, sparking a major scare here on Thursday. He later tweeted, "We are absolutely safe and ok. Nothing to worry." As the chopper appeared to lose control and suddenly came hurtling down to the ground from a height of around...
 NEW DELHI - A Twitter war erupted between actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha and his BJP party colleague Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday when the former tweeted in favour of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying "enough of negative politics and mudslinging". Modi, responding to Sinha's tweet, demanded that the "enemies of the party" (Sinha) must be "removed" at the earliest. Sinha also said...
 NEW DELHI - The Congress on Friday said the BJP-led central government had planned a 'Modifest' on completing three years in office though its rule was marked by "jobless growth". The party said the BJP had failed to "fulfil its election promise of creating two crore jobs annually". Addressing a press conference here, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the government had planned a bash costing many thousand crores of...
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