Chandigarh: The Election Commission has accorded the formal approval to Grant 5% Interim Relief to the Punjab Government Employees/Pensioners. Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the Chief Electoral Office, Punjab, the State Government had sought EC’s permission for grant of Interim Relief due to the enforcement of theRead More

Chandigarh, Reacting strongly to reports of the arrest of Nabha jailbreak mastermind from the house of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker, Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has demanded a thorough probe into Arvind Kejriwal’s nexus with militants and gangsters in the state. In a statement issued here, theRead More

Chandigarh/New Delhi: The Punjab Government on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to put off hearing of the dispute over the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal after results of the assembly elections are announced on March 11. Appearing for the SAD-BJP state government led by Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal, seniorRead More

Chandigarh, A day after his pre-arrest bail plea was dismissed and after remaining on the run for a week, Harmehtab Singh alias Farid was finally arrested on Thursday. Farid was accompanying Balraj Singh Randhawa, who ran over Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s nephew, Akansh Sen, in a BMW car,Read More

Patiala, The Nabha court has sent gun house owner Kiranpal Singh, who was arrested from Moga, to police remand till February 18. He was arrested after it was found that Nabha jailbreak mastermind Gurpreet Singh Sekhon and his accomplice had bought the weapons that were used in the jailbreak fromRead More

Ludhiana, On the issue raised by the Aam Aadmi Party regarding the security breach at strong rooms where EVMs have been kept, the Election Commission on Thursday sent a special team comprising Himachal Pradesh CEO Narinder Chauhan to check strong rooms. Meanwhile, AAP leaders termed the checking an eyewash. TheyRead More

OTTAWA – Even with companies and politicians breathing a little easier after Justin Trudeau’s first encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump, it remains to be seen what the two governments actually agreed to. A day after the Trudeau-Trump tete-a-tete, questions on critical files remained unanswered – from trade, to infrastructure,Read More

TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government has agreed to cap full-day kindergarten classes at 30, according to a copy of a tentative contract extension agreement with elementary teachers obtained by The Canadian Press. If ratified, elementary teachers will get a four-per-cent raise over two years. That’s the same compensation offered toRead More

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the real story behind the National Security Advisor’s resignation is illegal leaks, indicating that it was not the top official misleading him as being reported in the media. “The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming outRead More

Washington: The Trump Administration needs to convince China to ask Pakistan to take “good-faith measures” to address India’s concerns on cross-border terrorism which is a key trigger of Indo-Pak military escalation, a top American think-tank said in a new report. US Institute of Peace in the report warned that anyRead More