Toronto, Running for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives is something Christine Elliot says her late husband, former finance minister Jim Flaherty, would have wanted her to do. “I feel sure that he would have been happy with my decision,” the provincial Tory member from Whitby, Ont., said when sheRead More

Toronto, Ontario’s minister of community and social services can’t say whether the government will have to shell out more money to fix a support payment system that has already cost the province an additional $29 million. The Social Assistance Management System, which is responsible for welfare and disability support payments,Read More

Ottawa, The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled a B.C. man can use the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to pursue a lawsuit after being wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for several sexual assaults he did not commit. The landmark ruling clarifies the circumstances under which criminal prosecutors could beRead More

Mumbai, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who undertook a ‘padyatra’ in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha district to obtain a first-hand account of the agrarian crisis in the region, told mediapersons that the situation has worsened in the past few years. The Congress leader, who first tried to connect with farmers several years ago, toldRead More

New Delhi, With its membership crossing the 10-crore mark, party president Amit Shah today officially announced the BJP as the world’s largest political party. “I feel pride in saying the BJP with around 10.5 crore members has become the largest party in the world. We are happy about it,” he said.Read More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today advocated that SAARC countries should conduct regular exercises on disaster relief and rescue operations, an idea appreciated by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who suggested it be taken forward. The conversation took place when the Pakistani Prime Minister called up Modi to condole theRead More

New Delhi, Heated exchanges were witnessed between various Opposition members and members of the Treasury Benches during zero hour in the Rajya Sabha today over Baba Ramdev’s infertility medicine ‘Divya Putrajeevak Seed’ and the discrimination against the Dalits in Gujarat. As the zero hour started after the initial administrative business, JD-URead More

Peshawar, Ten Pakistani Taliban militants were today sentenced to 25 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court for their 2012 gun attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage child rights activist who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize. The ATC in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province announced the judgment afterRead More

Washington, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has dismissed as conspiracy theory claims made by a new book that cash donations from India swayed her stance as a senator on the landmark India-US nuclear deal. “Clinton Cash is attempting to rewrite history to fit a pre-determined partisan narrative,” Clinton campaign spokesman Josh SchwerinRead More

Washington, Religious minorities in India have been subjected to “violent attacks, forced conversions” and ‘Ghar Wapsi’ campaigns by groups like RSS after Narendra Modi-led NDA government assumed power in 2014, a US Congress-established panel has said.In its 2015 annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked the ObamaRead More