*      KEEN ENTHUSIASM IN YOUNGSTERS OVER DHARMIK DARSHAN YATRA *         SANGAT APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS OF GOVERNMENT *       YATRA’S NEXT HALT AT GURUDWARA SRI SUKH SAGAR SAHIB KHANNA Ludhiana/Dehlon/Sahnewal: June 7:   The Dharmik Darshan Yatra, carrying relics of Guru Sahiban, today saw a seaRead More

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany — Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived at the G7 summit Sunday where he will face discussions on a topic he has been repeatedly criticized for not doing enough about — climate change. Germany, with the firm backing of neighbour France, is linking climate change to global securityRead More

EDMONTON — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is promising Canada’s cities an extra penny from the gas tax. Mulcair told the Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention in Edmonton Saturday that an NDP government would provide an extra $1.5 billion each year for roads, bridges and other infrastructure through the existing gasRead More

MONTREAL — Jacques Parizeau will lie in the state today at the Quebec legislature, giving Quebecers a second day to pay their respects to the former premier. Hundreds of people lined up in Montreal yesterday to pay their respects to Parizeau, who died last Monday at the age of 84.Read More

MUNICH, GERMANY: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touched down at Munich airport today, the first world leader to arrive for the G7 summit in southern Germany. Abe flew fresh from Kiev where he met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be briefed on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, likely to beRead More

ISTANBUL: If cockroaches infest someone’s house or office, they might put down some poison or maybe call in the pest-controllers. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had a more radical solution. The presence of cockroaches in his old offices, he revealed in an interview, were the reason why heRead More

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte for cooperation in water management and land reclamation in Mumbai. “We have signed an MoU in which they will be helping us in creating a coastal road. It is not onlyRead More

DHAKA: India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed an agreement to simplify their 4,000-km (2,500-mile) border and clarify the identities of 52,000 living in enclaves, over four decades after the neighbours first tried to untangle complex territorial rights set down in 1713. Under the deal, signed in the presence of PrimeRead More

MOSCOW: Two Russians held hostage in the Sudanese region of Darfur since January were freed on Friday, Russia’s foreign ministry said today. The ministry said the hostages, employees of airline UTair, were in good health and had been freed as a result of co-operation between the ministry, the Sudanese authorities,Read More

Mumbai, Jun 6 : Though the Centre will consider the collective view of the Joint Parliament Commitee on the Land Bill, it is not ready to compromise on the basic purpose of the Act, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said today. “The new Bill is currently before the joint committee ofRead More