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Modi, Sharif break ice with handshake in Nepal

It took a Himalayan retreat at Dhulikhel, about 20 km from Kathmandu, for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to break some ice after the foreign secretary-level talks debacle in August.

President of All India Sikh Conference Gurcharan Singh Babbar appeared before the Akal Takht to submit his clarification about objectionable words used by him against the Akal Takht.

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After more than a month of negotiations with BJP and after saying that it would settle for nothing less than the deputy chief minister's post and the home portfolio, the Shiv Sena on Monday agreed to join the BJP-led Maharashtra government by accepting lesser portfolios

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Even though the Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP claimed that they had buried the hatchet and decided to contest the municipal corporation elections together, a joint press conference called by the alliance partners nailed their differences as senior BJP leaders stayed away from the event