Chandigarh, June 4: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today placed under suspended party secretary Mr Parminder Mehta from Ludhiana with immediate effect. Condemning strongly the views expressed by Mr Mehta yesterday, Mr Bajwa said the party had nothing to do with such inflammatory  utterances. He said itRead More

Chandigarh, 4 June : Dal Khalsa has strongly condemned the killings of a Sikh Jagjeet Singh .who was protesting against the detention of some youths by city police. Party leaders Satnam Singh and Kanwar Pal Singh said the BJP has a complete hold on Jammu administration and it was thisRead More

TORONTO — The federal government is giving more money to Canada’s spy agency. The plan calls for $137 million over five years for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and $41 million a year afterward. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it’s all part of an attempt to beef up publicRead More

TORONTO — Ontario plans to move its fixed elections from October to June and could even hold them on Saturdays to increase voter turnout, but Premier Kathleen Wynne isn’t ready to try online voting just yet. “I am not opposed personally to using technology in the election process, not inRead More

Ontario: The Toronto Police Service’s gun and gang task force says more than two dozen people were arrested this morning after 50 search warrants were executed in Toronto and across southern Ontario. Speaking at a news conference at 23 Division Thursday morning, Insp. Bryan Bott said that more than 700Read More

Toronto, Public sector workers in Canada enjoy about a 10 per cent wage premium on average when compared to workers doing the same job in the private sector, a Fraser Institute study has found. The study also found that even after factoring in higher rates of unionization in the publicRead More

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande said today a deal to help prevent Greece from defaulting on its debt was days, or even hours away. “We are days, even hours away from a possible resolution,” Hollande said, adding that “asking too much of Greece would prevent the return of growth …Read More

WASHINGTON: Former US President George W Bush is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC poll released today. The survey said 52 per cent of Americans polled have a favorable opinion of the former Republican president who was in office between 2001 and 2009, whileRead More

BRUSSELS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed for last-ditch talks with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels today to lay the ground for a deal that will keep the country from bankruptcy. Tsipras warned European leaders against sowing divisions ahead of the meeting, which will discuss rival reform plansRead More

JIANLI, CHINA: Rescuers searched a sunken cruise ship in the Yangtze River today for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading in what could be China’s worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years. State television showed rescuers, some standing gingerlyRead More