Chandigarh,  May 8 :Congress Deputy Leaderin the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today demanded immediate release and withdrawal of cases against 12 students from Faridkot who have been jailed for protesting against the Moga molestation and murder. “By putting students behind bars and slapping them with serious charges of attempt toRead More

* State government sets ‘six -pont’- agenda for providing world class civic amenities to these towns Chandigarh, May 8- In a major step aimed at providing world class civic amenities to residents of the cities across the state, the Punjab government has embarked a major scheme providing the facility ofRead More

Dharmik darshan yatra gets a rousing welcome on entering bathinda district Mansa/ Maur Mandi/ Talwandi Sabo, May 8: Punjab government and Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee‘s collaborative efforts Dharmik Darshan Yatra today passed from the areas of district Mansa and entered into Bathinda district from village Bhai Desa of the MaurRead More

London, Millions voted in the UK today in the country’s closest polls in decades as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party and opposition Labour were locked in a dead heat electoral battle with migrant voters, including the Indian diaspora, expected to be the deciding factor. The prospects of a hungRead More

WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to pass a bill giving Congress the right to review, and potentially reject, an international nuclear agreement with Iran. The 98-1 vote sent the measure to the House of Representatives, which is expected to consider it as soon as next week. TheRead More

WASHINGTON: The US government is moving too slowly to counter the Islamic State group’s fast-paced online propaganda and vast recruitment efforts, experts and lawmakers said Thursday. The large scale and the lightning tempo of the IS group’s social media campaign poses a daunting challenge, particularly for a government bureaucracy ill-equippedRead More

LONDON: Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland. Voters casting their ballots in the closest contest in decades faced a choice between a government led by Prime MinisterRead More

Moscow , Russia said an unmanned supply ship set for the International Space Station will fall back to Earth on Friday and burn up in the atmosphere, after the spacecraft suffered a communications failure. The Progress supply ship is expected to “end its existence on May 8,” between 1:23 amRead More

New Delhi, The Rajya Sabha privileges committee will revisit the report that said unauthorised access of Arun Jaitley’s call data records in 2013 was not a breach of privilege and consider enlarging its scope to include phone-tapping of MPs. Deputy chairman P J Kurien, who heads the committee, said heRead More

New Delhi, Amidst rare scenes of bonhomie, Rajya Sabha on Wednesday unanimously passed a Constitutional Amendment bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh that enables exchange of over 60 land ‘enclaves’ in each others’ territories. Apart from their whole-hearted and unconditional support to the bill, members, across parties,Read More