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New Delhi, Jan 18: Union minister Shashi Tharoor, who had checked into the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) soon after his wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a south Delhi hotel on Friday night, has been discharged after the doctors said he was fine. Tharoor had complained of uneasiness and chest pain. He was initially admitted to the ICU and was later shifted to a private ward

New Delhi, Jan 18: Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead last night, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he suffered a "cardiac condition" in the wee hours today. 57-year-old Tharoor was rushed to the hospital at around 3 AM after he complained of severe chest pain, anxiety and palpitation, sources at the AIIMS said. The

New Delhi, Jan 18: Police investigating Sunanda Pushkar's death mysterious death tonight questioned a number of hotel staff and checked the CCTV fotage of the lobby of the third floor of the luxury hotel where she was staying. Sources in police said call details record of Pushkar was also being checked as part of the probe into her death. A team of Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL)

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 18: Sunanda Pushkar suffered from a rheumatological illness and was given a thorough medical checkup at a leading hospital in Thiruvananthapuram just three days before she was found dead in a five star hotel in New Delhi on Friday evening. She was to return to the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) later this month for detailed treatment based on the reports. "We

New Delhi, Jan 17: Hitting out at Gujarat chief minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday rebuked his prime ministerial ambitions and said that Modi was welcome to sell tea at the venue of ongoing All India Congress Committee (AICC) meet in New Delhi. "Give my word, Modi will never be PM in the 21st century, if he wants to sell tea

New Delhi, Jan 17: Facing accusations of policy paralysis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today admitted that growth rate had slowed down because clearances were not granted to infrastructure projects for the fear of CAG and CVC. He asked the people to judge the record of his government while closely scrutinising that of opposition governments. Addressing the AICC session here, he rued that his

New Delhi, Jan 17: Getting more than 272 seats in Lok Sabha is in focus as Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) three day long brainstorming session starts here Friday. This will be the last session of the national executive and council of BJP before the Lok Sabha polls. Those who will attend include, party president Rajnath Singh, party patriarch L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar

New Delhi, Jan 17: In an apparent bid to avoid reopening of the issue, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decision on vice president Rahul Gandhi not being named as party’s prime ministerial candidate is final. “The CWC had taken a decision on Rahul Gandhi yesterday. And that is final,” she said in significant remarks before she began her formal

New Delhi, Jan 16: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lead the party's campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections but will not be declared prime ministerial candidate, the party said Thursday. A meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) Thursday evening decided the agenda for the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting Friday, in which a resolution will be moved about the

New Delhi, Jan 16: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said Delhi Police are "highly compromised", and if any crime is prevented in the national capital, it is not because of the police force but rather God's grace. "The security of the people has been left to God, and whatever little crime incidents are not happening is not because of Delhi Police, but despite them," Kejriwal said