CHANDIGARH, JULY 30:Punjab Government has been constituted organizing committee of 6th Kabaddi World Cup-2015 for smooth conduct of mega sports event. Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister has been made the Chief Patron, while Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister would be the Chairman of the Organizing Committee. In aRead More

CHANDIGARH, JULY 30:The Punjab Government today announced a big relief to residents of cities by giving them an opportunity to deposit arrears of house tax due upto 31st March 2013 without interest and penalty latest by 17 August 2015. They have been given an option to deposit one time amountRead More

Amritsar/Tarn Taran, July 30 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers in Tarn Taran burnt the effigy of their state convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur, demanding his early removal from the top post. Meanwhile, Sanjay Singh, Punjab affairs in charge, AAP, today said the party’s organisational structure in the state would be announcedRead More

CHANDIGARH, JULY 30: The Local Government department today issued directions to all officers to ensure recording of punishment meted to any employee of the department in the service books of concerned employees. According to an official spokesman it has come to the notice of government that punishment being meted toRead More

Toronto : The 2024 Olympics may not be the only major event city officials have set their sights on. According to a report in The Toronto Star, the city may also be considering a bid to host Expo 2025. The Toronto newspaper says Mayor John Tory sent a letter, datedRead More

DALLAS – A Florida man could be sentenced to more than 500 years in prison for leading a $10-million timeshare scam in the U.S. and Canada. Fabian Fleifel of Winter Springs, Fla., was convicted in Texas of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud. A federal juryRead More

LONDON: Some migrants have reached Britain aboard cross-Channel trains in recent days, Britain’s interior minister said Wednesday, as a source said that “more than 100″ made it across that way on Tuesday alone. “A number of people have come through,” Home Secretary Theresa May said following an emergency cabinet meeting,Read More

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday approved the “immediate” construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as his government came under pressure from right-wing Jewish groups. “After consultations in the prime minister’s office, the immediate construction of 300 homes in Beit El has been authorised,”Read More

KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago in Karachi, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said today. The comments came after unnamed government and militant sources said earlier that he had died. “Mullah Omar is dead,” Sediqi, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, told AFP. “HeRead More

DUBAI: France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius arrived in Tehran for a one-day visit today and was due to meet President Hassan Rouhani and several ministers, Iran’s state news agency IRNA said. He is the first French foreign minister to visit Iran for 12 years and his trip comes after aRead More