WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES:  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley met top US officials in Washington and raised India’s concerns over key bilateral issues, including totalisation agreement and the proposed Bilateral Investment Treaty. In a series of meetings with US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and US Trade Representative MikeRead More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday hailed the first International Yoga Day as a “new era of peace”, moments before he surprised thousands in New Delhi by taking to a mat himself to celebrate the ancient Indian practice. Yoga-loving Modi led more than 35,000 people, including bureaucrats, students andRead More

NEW DELHI: BJP national spokesperson MJ Akbar will be the party’s candidate for by-election to a Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand. “BJP president Amit Shah has decided that MJ Akbar will be the party’s candidate for the Jharkhand Rajya Sabha bypoll,” a party statement said.The by-election to the council ofRead More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Union Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s helping Lalit Modi was purely on humanitarian grounds and there was no sort of “collusion with matters pertaining to corruption.” “Sushma Swaraj did it on humanitarian grounds. Well, doing something on humanitarian grounds is partRead More

LONDON: Former Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi invoked the names of British royalty, including Prince Charles and his brother Andrew, while seeking his travel papers from the UK Home Office, according to a media report today. According to the report in ‘The Sunday Times’, Prince Andrew – theRead More

KOCHI: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today flagged off India’s first diesel electric multiple unit (DEMU) train service with an air-conditioned coach in Kochi. The Angamaly-Ernakulam-Tripunithura-Piravom train service is expected to help in reducing traffic congestion in the state’s fastest growing city. “It is for the first time in a DEMURead More

CHANDIGARH, June 21: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder today said, the party high command was well aware of the ground realities in Punjab as he had already briefed the Congress president Ms Sonia Gandhi during his meeting recently. Besides, he added, he had later provided herRead More

Chandigarh June 21: swearing-in ceremony of newly appointed PPSC member Mr. Sukhwant Singh Sarao scheduled to be held on June 22 has been postponed. Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the government said that the swearing-in ceremony of PPSC member Mr. Sukhwant Singh Sarao would now be held onRead More

* SUSCEPTIBLE 21 TOWNS OF PUNJAB COVERED UNDER URBAN MALARIA SCHEME Chandigarh June 21: With the declaration of June as Malaria Month, the Punjab government has intensified its ongoing operations to check the outbreak of malaria in urban as well as rural parts of Punjab. The Punjab Health department inRead More

* MASSIVE STEPS TAKEN BY STATE GOVERNMENT TO STAMP OUT THIS CURSE FROM PUNJAB * LAUDS MODI FOR CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY * EXHORTS PEOPLE TO SUPERVISE DEVELOPMENT WORKS * SANGAT DARSHAN IN LAMBI ASSEMBLY SEGMENT Channu (Sri Muktsar Sahib), June 21- Slamming the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) ChiefRead More