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If you're travelling abroad and need the local Indian embassy's help, tweet to them and tag External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in your message. She said today she'll "personally monitor" embassies' reponses to such calls for aid.…

Two months into the ban on high-value currency, the once serpentine queues outside banks "have disappeared", claimed finance minister Arun Jaitley in a Facebook post today. 'As well, the fact that there was no social unrest during this…

Castigating the opponents of demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a swipe at those calling the government’s move “anti-people”, saying these were “political worshippers” of graft and black money which had adversely…

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today announced its final list of candidates for 101 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. With today's announcement, the party has so far released list of 401 candidates. Candidates on the remaining two seats…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the Indian diaspora across the world as he addressed people at the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2017 in Bengaluru. "There was once a discussion about brain drain. And I told people at that…