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New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah has asserted that his party has stopped the politics of appeasement in the country and introduced politics of performance.

The Narendra Modi government has in the last three years shown the political will to take decisions unlike the previous Congress-led government which had suffered from policy paralysis, he said during an interaction with intellectuals on the second day of his three-day visit to Kolkata.

Shah said that in the last three years India has emerged as the fastest growing economy in the world and this was not an easy task.

New Delhi: The United Nations has said that situation in Myanmar is a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" as the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh topped 300,000.

New Delhi: Creating history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe would take part in a road show in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on September 13.

The eight-km-long road show would start from the Ahmedabad airport and culminate at the Sabarmati Ashram.

Abe will arrive here on Wednesday on a two-day India visit during which he and Modi will hold the 12th India-Japan annual summit here.

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will attend a 10-day Vipassana meditation camp at Igatpuri in Maharashtra with no access to TV and news.

"The CM has left for Igatpuri. He will be attending a 10-day session of Vipassana," a government spokesperson said. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will take care of day-to-day government affairs in Kejriwals absence, he said.

In August last year too, Kejriwal had gone to Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamkot to attend a 10-day Vipassana session at a meditation centre. He is known to be an ardent practitioner of the meditation technique.