* EDUCATION MINISTER DR. CHEEMA SHOWERS ACCOLADES ON PLAYERS AND COACHES * PUNJAB FENCING TEAM BAGS 9 GOLD, 5 SILVER AND 4 BRONZE MEDALS IN U-14 and 19 CHANDIGARH, MAY 17: Punjab has again put up an excellent show in fencing competition of 60th National School Games, being held atRead More

TORONTO — The widow of an American special forces soldier killed in Afghanistan and another soldier partially blinded by a hand grenade have moved to finalize a default civil-suit judgment against former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr. Court documents filed in Utah April 24, the day an Alberta court grantedRead More

SAINT PETERSBURG: A group of supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday presented a bust of the strongman depicting him in the heroic guise of a Roman emperor. “We wanted to immortalise Vladimir Putin as a conqueror and statesman who returned Crimea to Russia,” said Andrei Polyakov, the headRead More

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday there was still time to stop an Iranian agreement with world powers that he says would give Tehran nuclear arms. “It’s still not too late to retract the plan that gives Iran an agreement which will pave it a road toRead More

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday ordered government forces to “hold their positions” in Ramadi, after the Islamic State group said it overran the strategic city, his spokesman said. Abadi said troops, tribesmen and other elite forces “must hold their positions and preserve them and not allow DaeshRead More

Islamabad: Recalling the Kargil conflict of 1999 between India and Pakistan, former military strongman Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said New Delhi would never be able to forget the three-month-long battle when his armed forces “grabbed India by the throat”. “There was a second line force, too, which caught India byRead More

LONDON: With more female, gay and ethnic minority background lawmakers than ever before, the new House of Commons following May 7’s general election has never looked more diverse. Nearly one in three MPs (29 percent) are women, making up 191 out of the 650 lawmakers who will return for theRead More

New Delhi: Corruption has come down in Delhi by 70-80 per cent, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday, adding his party will try to fulfil its election promises within four years. Addressing thousands of auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader also announced the launchRead More

Hyderabad: Taking a dig at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his foreign visits, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said Modi’s schedule is in public domain and not a secret. Defending Modi against Congress’ barbs over his “frequent” foreign tours, NaiduRead More

Siliguri: Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday held the West Bengal government responsible for the closure and the pathetic condition of the tea gardens in North Bengal. A day after visiting the closed tea gardens of Dooars, Sitharaman on Sunday attended the stakeholders’ consultationRead More