BEIRUT: At least 33 people, including 10 children, were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria today, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in three incidents, in Aleppo province in the north of the country and Idlib province in theRead More

New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Wednesday directed CBI to reply on the allegations that Congress leader Jagdish Tytler tried to influence a witness in a 1984 anti Sikh riots case in which the agency has filed a closure report. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate SPS Laler sought CBI’s response onRead More

Mumbai, Jun 3 : Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari today said he has asked state-run Shipping Corporation of India to scout for used LNG ships in the international market, which will help in transportation of the fuel till the country starts building such vessels indigenously. “I have given orders toRead More

Madurai, June 3 : Two months after his arrest on charges of abetting the suicide of a government engineer, former Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister S S Agri Krishnamurthy was today granted conditional bail by the Madras High Court. Granting the bail, Justice K.Kalyanansundaram of the Court’s Madurai bench directed KrishnamurthyRead More

New Delhi : Four Bihar Police officers deputed to Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch at the request of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, are now caught in a political crossfire between the Aam Aadmi Party government in the capital and the Union Home Ministry. At least one of them, Deputy Superintendent of PoliceRead More

New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today expressed concern over the sale of arms to Pakistan, ahead of his meeting with visiting US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter. “I will not comment on specifics but any arms sale to Pakistan is a concern to India,” he told reporters in Delhi. HeRead More

* SSPs/CPs TO ENSURE COMPLETE CRACKDOWN AND NON-AVAILABILITY OF DRUGS * 1243 PERSONS ARRESTED, 1181 FIRs REGISTERED * FOCUSING ON INTELLIGENCE LED OPERATIONS FOR INTERCEPTING NARCOTIC ASSIGNMENTS Chandigarh, June 3:  The Punjab Police has launched a second phase of its concerted drive againstdrugs since May 23, 2015 to eradicate theRead More

* POWERCOM all set to prepare disaster management plan Chandigarh, June 3 – In a major move to deal with any kind of unforeseen natural calamity like earthquake, flood, sabotage or grid failures the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. (PSPCL) and Punjab State Transmission Corporation Ltd. (PSTCL) are all setRead More

Chandigarh June 3:  Over 100 villages of Punjab are all set to become rural model village with Punjab Government selecting them for total infrastructure upgradation under Prime Minister Adarsh Gram Yojna. Disclosing this here Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Mr. Sikander Singh Maluka said that 50 villages of the districtRead More

* BATS FOR CROP INSURANCE SCHEME FOR THE FARMERS * REITERATES THAT BAJWA MUST RENAME HIS YATRA AS ‘PASCHAATAP YATRA’ * PAYS HOMAGE TO BABA PREM SINGH MURAALEWALE Begowal (Kapurthala), June 3- Terming that Punjab was rightfully demanding economic package from the centre, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash SinghRead More