Chandigarh, August 5: The Punjab Government has appointed Mr. S.R. Ladhar, I.A.S. Director-cum-Secretary, Industries and Commerce as Director on the Board of Directors of Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation Limited, Chandigarh. Stating this, an official spokesperson said that Mr. Ladhar has been appointed in place of Mr. Raminder Singh, I.A.S.Read More

Chandigarh, August 5- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Enforcement Directorate to produce entire record relating to transfer of special public prosecutor Suresh Batra in the drug case to Bengaluru at the next hearing on August 19. It may be mentioned that CAT had earlier dismissed theRead More

TORONTO — Stephen Harper has delivered the first big-budget promise of the Conservative election campaign: a permanent home-renovation tax credit that will cost taxpayers $1.5 billion a year once implemented. However, Harper says the credit — a more modest version of a temporary credit the government first introduced in 2009Read More

AJAX, Ont. — One day into his re-election campaign and Stephen Harper had already turned his main political rivals into a two-headed nightmare: “Justin and Mulcair.” The Conservative leader repeated that moniker several times Monday in reference to the Liberal leader with the famous last name and the NDP leaderRead More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The Second Cup Ltd. (TSX:SCU) says it’s beginning to add more new-format locations to its network of specialty coffee cafes, which continued to lose money during the company’s second quarter. It says two new-format locations were added in July and a rollout of the new format willRead More

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar is trading near levels that it hasn’t seen since the summer of 2004. The loonie traded at 76.23 cents US, down 0.22 cent of a U.S. cent from Friday’s close. Earlier it had been as low as 75.90, the lowest since closing at 75.82 centsRead More

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s anti-graft agency has said that nearly $700 million deposited into the prime minister’s personal bank accounts were from “donations” and not related to a brewing scandal. Prime Minister Najib Razak has faced mounting pressure in the past year over a series of revelations alleging that hundreds ofRead More

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande today welcomed a US plan to cut carbon emissions as a “major contribution” to an upcoming global climate conference in Paris. His US counterpart Barack Obama unveiled plans on Monday to force power plant owners to cut emissions of carbon dioxide — the most commonRead More

PARIS: President Barack Obama’s plan to slash electricity-generated CO2 emissions was welcomed today as a courageous step towards a lower-carbon future, but not yet enough to brake dangerous planet warming. Politicians and analysts said Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which faces fierce opposition in Republican quarters back home, should foster globalRead More

GENEVA: More than 2,000 people have died so far this year trying to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday, making it the world’s most dangerous migrant route. “Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugeesRead More