Chandigarh, May 29 : Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought the intervention of Union Railways Ministry for halting the Sarai Rohilla-Ganganagar and Sri Ganganagar-Nanded trains at Malout railway station in Muktsar district. In a letter to Union Minister Suresh Prabhu, the Chief Minister apprised him that Malout wasRead More

Chandigarh, May 29: The Punjab government today filed an appeal against the single bench decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court striking down the decision to reserve post of Mohali municipal corporation Mayor for women. The division bench issued notices in this case for July 22.

OTTAWA – Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay will announce Friday his intention to retire from federal politics after nearly two decades and time atop some of the most prestigious portfolios in government. The significance of his departure is reflected by who will stand next to him when he declares hisRead More

TORONTO – A man who once was deputy education minister in Ontario and Manitoba has been sentenced to three years behind bars after pleading guilty to three child pornography-related charges. Benjamin Levin, 63, was originally charged with seven child porn-related offences. In her decision, the judge said Levin, a fatherRead More

OTTAWA — The economy shifted into reverse over the first three months of the year as it contracted at an annual pace of 0.6 per cent amid the global oil slump, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said the weaker-than-expected reading was first time the country’s annualized rate of growthRead More

TORONTO – Ontario’s public education system could be thrown into turmoil in September as the province’s major teachers’ unions have raised the possibility of strikes, setting the stage for a tense summer of bargaining. More than 70,000 high school students returned to class Wednesday after the Ontario Labour Relations BoardRead More

TORONTO – The federal government says an expanded recall of faulty Takata airbags covers about 1.2 million vehicles in Canada. Transport Canada says the recall affects models from Honda, BMW, Ford and Chrysler from the years 2001 to 2014. The list of affected vehicles posted online by Transport Canada includesRead More

NEW YORK: Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old naturalized American of Chechen descent, will be formally sentenced to death in court on June 24, a US judge said today. Judge George O’Toole’s sentencing comes after a jury decided unanimously that Tsarnaev should die for his role in the 2013 BostonRead More

CAPE TOWN: South African President Jacob Zuma will not have to repay any of the millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money spent on upgrades at his private residence, the minister of police announced today. Finding that all the upgrades, including a swimming pool, were for security purposes, Nkosinathi Nhleko toldRead More

ATHENS: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today he hoped Tehran and world powers would reach a final nuclear deal “within a reasonable period of time” but this would be hard if the other side stuck to what he called excessive demands. Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany,Read More