* Infosys assures Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal that first stage of facility will be completed in 18 months * Volvo evinces interest in PPP in BRTS and in setting up car manufacturing facility in Punjab Bangalore, August 7 – Infosys today announced it would start construction of its 25,000 seatRead More

POST OF PRIVATE SECRETARY TO FILLED IN RAJ BHAWAN PUNJAB Chandigarh, August 7: The Punjab Government has invited applications to fill the post of Private Secretary in Punjab Raj Bhawan on deputation. For this purpose, a panel of Private Secretaries is to be sent to the Raj Bhawan. Disclosing this,Read More

TORONTO — Green party Leader Elizabeth May wants to improve the quality of the conversation at tonight’s leaders debate. May, who has not been invited to participate in a debate since 2008, says she thinks it is especially important to engage Canadians in this election . She said she isRead More

  Toronto: Fifty-eight per cent of respondents to a poll conducted by Mainstreet Technologies say they would support a bid by Toronto to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they would not support a bid, while four per cent said they weren’t sure. MainstreetRead More

HALIFAX – The federal government says it is agreeing to an offshore drilling plan that allows up to 21 days to bring in capping technology for a subsea well blowout because requiring a shorter response time would be too expensive for Shell Canada Ltd. Nova Scotia environmentalists are questioning whyRead More

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton and fellow Democratic candidates will square off October 13 in their first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign, the party announced on Thursday as it unveiled its primary debate schedule. The debut event will occur in Nevada, the first of six televised debates for the party thatRead More

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: A US drone attack on a militant compound in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Thursday killed at least five militants, security officials said The drone strike took place in Lawra Mandi area of Datta Khel in the North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, where the Pakistani militaryRead More

ABUJA: Nigeria on Thursday warned tens of thousands of people living along one of its main rivers to expect massive flooding as neighbouring Cameroon announced plans to release water from a dam. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it had been informed that the Lagdo dam in northern CameroonRead More

KUALA LAMPUR: Aircraft seat cushions and window panes have been found on an Indian Ocean island where wreckage from MH370 was recovered, Malaysia’s transport minister said today. “We have also found debris like window panes, aluminium foil and seat cushions,” Liow Tiong Lai Said. Liow, who later specified he wasRead More

New Delhi: Even as Pakistan is denying that the terrorist captured in Udhampur attack is not their own and has asked for proofs as to his nationality, terrorist’s father has contacted an Indian newspaper, saying he and his family would be killed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Pakistan’s army. Identifying himselfRead More