WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama plans to bar police from using tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers and large-caliber firearms, in response to accusations that US law enforcement has become too militarized. After controversy over the policing of high-profile protests in Baltimore, Maryland and Ferguson, Missouri, the White House saidRead More

LONDON: One of Britain’s longest-serving Indian-origin MPs, Keith Vaz, kept his promise of delivering a fresh batch of Alphonso mangoes to the British Prime Minister after the ban on their import was lifted by the European Union. Mr Vaz delivered the box at David Cameron’s 10 Downing Street residence-cum-office inRead More

BRASILIA: Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang headed to Brazil today on a three-day visit with a promise of $50 billion in investment for creaking infrastructure as his hosts finalize preparations for next year’s Rio Olympics. Li, who was due to land late afternoon in the capital Brasilia, will hold talksRead More

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed serious concern today after an Egyptian court sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death. Morsi was among more than 100 defendants given the death penalty Saturday for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising. “The secretary-general understands that the verdictRead More

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s supreme court today upheld a two-year jail sentence against prominent opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak for insulting the emir, his group said. “The supreme court upheld the two-year jail term against Barrak,” the Popular Action Movement (PAM) said on its Twitter account, adding that the former lawmaker, whoRead More

Mississauga, With the federal election a little over five months away, a new poll shows the Harper Conservatives are in a very tight race. Nearly 33 percent of respondents to the Nanos Research survey say they support the Tories — sitting right behind them is the Liberal party with aRead More

Chandigarh, Finding serious lapses and dereliction of duty on the part of school administrator and transporter of Stepping Stone School of Sector 38, in the molestation case of a five-year old-child, the Chandigarh Commission for the Protection for Child Rights (CCPCR)today recommended lodging of an FIR against them. Besides, theRead More

Phagwara/Faridkot, It was a harrowing experience for nearly 15,000 students from across the state who had come to appear for the Punjab Pre-Medical Entrance Test-2015 at Lovely Professional University (LPU) here on Sunday morning. Since candidates from all of Punjab had to converge on the lone centre set up byRead More

Muktsar, Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after having failed to maintain law and order in the state was again pursuing the Panthic agenda. Capt Amarinder said the people had two choices before them. They could either opt for economicRead More

* LAUDS NDA GOVERNMENT FOR EXEMPLARY WORK IN SHORT SPAN OF ONE YEAR * HAILS MODI FOR LAUNCHING SEVERAL PRO-POOR SCHEMES * PUNJAB IMMENSELY BENEFITTED FROM NDA RULE * STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTED FOR SPEEDY VAT REFUND TO TRADERS/ INDUSTRIALISTS * BATS FOR CROP INSURANCE SCHEME FOR FARMERS Ludhiana, May 17-Read More