SHARE CONDOLENCES WITH HIS SON SUKIRAT ANAND OVER TELEPHONE Chandigarh, June 20: Punjab chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of Editor-in-Chief of the Punjabi Daily ‘Nawan Zamana’, former Rajya Sabha Member and eminent Communist leader Mr. Jagjit Singh Anand, whoRead More

Chandigarh, June 20: Punjab Revenue & Public Relations Minister Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia today expressed profound grief and sorrow over the demise of Veteran Communist leader and the Chief Editor of Nawan Zamana Mr. Jagjit Singh Anand, who died yesterday in a private hospital at Jalandhar. In a condolence message,Read More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will in late July become the first sitting American leader to visit Ethiopia and the headquarters of the African Union, the White House said today. Obama’s trip to Addis Ababa will come directly after an already announced trip to Kenya, his first as president toRead More

ST PETERSBURG: President Vladimir Putin said today Russia had a “sufficient supply of inner strength” to overcome its economic problems and assured investors that his country remained open to business with the West. Addressing foreign and Russian business leaders at an economic conference in the city of St Petersburg, PutinRead More

WASHINGTON: Terrorist attacks worldwide surged by more than a third and fatalities soared by 81 percent in 2014, a year that also saw Islamic State eclipse al Qaeda as the leading jihadist militant group, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. In its annual report on terrorism, the department alsoRead More

BANGKOK: One of Thailand’s leading hospitals, known for treating medical tourists, said on Friday it had received the country’s first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as authorities said it had taken nearly four days to confirm the illness. Thailand said on Thursday a 75-year-old businessman from Oman, whoRead More

New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje finds herself combatting charges of impropriety on two counts when it comes to Lalit Modi, the former chief of the Indian Premier League, who lives in London. Mr Modi has alleged that in 2011, when he sought to extend his stay in theRead More

NEW DELHI: BJP today rejected the demand for resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over their alleged links with scam-tainted Lalit Modi, saying there is “no technical or legal” basis for it. Party Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said while the party’s top leadership hasRead More

NEW DELHI: Heavy rains on Friday lashed parts of the western coast, especially Mumbai and Konkan areas, even as the Southwest Monsoon showed no signs of advancement over the past six days. The Southwest monsoon has been “vigorous” over Telangana and “active” over Konkan and Goa, Vidarbha, Coastal Andhra PradeshRead More

SEONI, MADHYA PRADESH: A community health centre official was caught red handed by the Lokayukta police on Friday when he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 15,000 from an Asha health worker. Asha Dhurve, who is currently working as Asha health worker in Lutmara village, had applied for theRead More