Jalandhar, August 1 The Army on Saturday honoured two railway employees who averted a major tragedy by spotting live bombs planted by terrorists on a railway bridge near Dinanagar town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on July 27. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt Gen KJ Singh, felicitated the two braveheartsRead More

Kapurthala, August 1 Even as the family of Superintendent of Police Baljit Singh, who was gunned down on Monday’s terror attack at Gurdaspur, has been assured of Rs 25 lakh compensation and a job of DSP for his son, another slain cop of Kapurthala who too showed exemplary courage inRead More

Gurdaspur,August 1 Doctors at the local Civil Hospital today refused to conduct post-mortem examinations on the bodies of the three militants killed in the Dinanagar attack on Monday. The doctors said they might inadvertently find themselves embroiled in a controversy because the people on whom they were to conduct theRead More

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — The federal and provincial governments have teamed up to provide about $100 million to help expand Toyota’s manufacturing operations in southern Ontario. The money will go towards the automaker’s planned $421-million investment at plants in Cambridge and Woodstock. Ottawa’s contribution will be a repayable loan of $59Read More

ONTARIO:Drivers travelling on Ontario highways this long weekend will be given a special warning by police to move over and make room for stalled vehicles. The ‘Move Over’ safety blitz is being held in memory of a fallen Ontario Provincial Police officer who was killed in June 2000 after aRead More

JAKARTA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Europe today of not doing enough to help refugees fleeing conflict in Syria and Iraq, suggesting it was responsible for people “drowning in the sea”. Turkey, which has taken in some 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the conflict started in 2011, has repeatedlyRead More

MOSCOW: Russia said today that it did not trust Britain’s “politicised” inquiry into the poisoning death of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko. The Russian foreign minister said on the final day of the inquiry in London that Moscow’s fears that the probe would be biased and non-transparent appeared justified. “In AugustRead More

TUNIS: A state of emergency imposed in Tunisia after a jihadist gunman killed 38 foreign tourists in June is to be extended for two months, the president’s office said today. “After consultations with the prime minister and the speaker, the president has decided to extend the state of emergency inRead More

HELSINKI: Finland has asked the United States to explain why two Finnish citizens and four enterprises have been slapped with sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine, the Finnish foreign ministry said today. “When we were informed of this, we asked the US authorities for the grounds of these sanctions. InRead More

DAHALA-KHAGRABARI, BANGLADESH: Bangladesh and India prepared on Friday to swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world’s most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years. Officials of the two nations will hoist their respective national flags in 162 enclavesRead More