Chandigarh, Punjab Congress Legislature Party chief Sunil Jakhar today announced that the party MLAs would gherao official residence of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on April 30 in protest against harassment of farmers in the mandis. He also threatened rail roko agitation on May 2. Talking to the media personsRead More

Chandigarh, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today advised union minister and Bathinda MP Ms Harsimrat Kaur Badal to better pose her questions on the plight of farmers to her father in law and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal instead of criticising Rahul Gandhi forRead More

Chandigarh,  The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today gave a call for Rail Roko on May 2 for one hour from 12.00 to 1.00 PM in protest against the open loot of the farmers in the mandis in the state for which the Parkash Singh Badal government wasRead More

Chandigarh,  Shiromani Akali Dal General Secretary and MP from Anandpur Sahib Prof. Prem Singh Chandumajra demanded immediate transfer of Chandigarh to Punjab which was built as its capital and end injustice to the state. Participating in the discussion on grants for home ministry in the Lok Sabha late last evening,Read More

Khanna/Sirhind, Flush with newfound confidence post his 56-day break, Rahul Gandhi today traveled ‘general class’ by Sachkhand Express slicing through Haryana before reaching grain bowls of Punjab to see “with my own eyes” the “sufferings” of farmers unable to sell their produce to state agencies in remunerative prices. At Khanna grainRead More

New York, Raja Rajeswari has been sworn-in as a criminal court judge here by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in the New York City. Rajeswari, 43, who had immigrated to the US from India as a teenager, previously worked with theRead More

Washington, An undocumented Indian origin-immigrant has attended the State Dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama at the White House for visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Bupendra Ram, who came to the US at the age of two from Fiji, attended the dinner along with his partner Kamala Ram. InRead More

United Nations, Asserting that nuclear-armed states have not made progress in eliminating their atomic weapons stockpiles, Iran has asked such countries to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernising and extending the life span of their nuclear arsenal. “The nuclear weapon states have not made progress in eliminating theirRead More

Cilacap, Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly on Tuesday, media said, but a Filipina who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute. There was no immediate official confirmation that the eight men had been executed. Earlier, JakartaRead More

Dubai/Riyadh, The frontlines of Yemen’s messy civil war have barely moved after weeks of Saudi air strikes and fighting between rival factions, but behind the scenes there are faint signs of shifts that could alter the balance on the ground.At stake is the stability and political future of a country thatRead More