Chandigarh,-July 14: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today adjourned the hearing in the case of recruitment of medical officers by the Punjab Public Service Commission in 2010 to July 22 next.

Ludhiana, Jul 14 : A Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch was today shot dead allegedly by his younger brother and his friend on the outskirts of the city here, police said. The incident occurred this morning when Bhupinder Singh, Sarpanch of Jhamat village, was sitting in his car outside a gymRead More

Ludhiana, July 14: A truck carrying gas cylinders burst on the Samrala highway near Udhowal village around midnight causing panic. The driver stopped the truck as the gas cylinders started bursting one after the other. He ran to the Udhowal nearby to alert the people who came out of theirRead More

Amritsar, Jul 14 : BJP National Secretary Tarun Chugh today alleged that Capt Amarinder Singh, the sitting Congress MP from Amritsar has not done anything for his constituency. Chugh alleged Amarinder, after being elected from Amritsar had been ignoring the city and has not spared even a minute to raiseRead More

NEW YORK: Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton put the fight for higher wages for everyday Americans at the heart of her economic agenda on Monday and talked tough against Wall Street in the first major policy speech of her White House bid. Clinton said the U.S. economy will only run atRead More

BRUSSELS: Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on Monday in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency. The terms imposed by international lenders led by Germany in all-night talks atRead More

BEKAA VALLEY: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in ‘books not bullets’. Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot onRead More

SINGAPORE: Singapore has launched a review of electoral constituency boundaries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told parliament today, in an announcement likely to raise speculation of an early election. The next general election must be held by January 2017, but there has been speculation in the media and political blogsRead More

VIENNA: Iran and major powers will seek today to put the finishing touches to a historic nuclear deal, with both sides saying an accord ending a 13-year standoff lies tantalisingly within reach. The talks, the latest set of which have dragged on for more than two weeks, aim to nailRead More

ABUJA: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari sacked his army, navy, air force and defence chiefs on Monday, a widely anticipated move as the former general has made crushing Islamist militant group Boko Haram his top priority. Replacements would be announced later on Monday, the presidency spokesman told Reuters. Since his inaugurationRead More