Panniwala (Sri Muktsar Sahib), Envisioning the Crop Insurance Scheme as the remedy of all the ills faced by the farmers, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that the Union Government must introduce this scheme at the earliest for protecting the peasantry from the vagaries of the weather.Read More

Amritsar, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar today lambasted the SAD-BJP coalition government for delay in announcing relief package to farmers whose standing crops got damaged due to untimely rain. Talking to the media, he said crops such as wheat, vegetable, fodder, cereals over 3 lakh hectares of land wereRead More

Ottawa, Canada’s largest companies want employers to put more emphasis on training and making sure their employees’ skills are up to date. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives is using a conference in Ottawa on Monday to kick off what it hopes will be a national discussion on the importanceRead More

Vancouver, Anticipation of an Indian prime minister’s first visit to Canada in 42 years is building as fans and foes of Narendra Modi see him as either a rock star of economic development that could benefit both countries or a suppressor of minority rights. Modi’s three-day trip starting Tuesday isRead More

Tokyo, Candidates backed by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc won two key governor elections on Sunday, setting the stage for him to push through divisive policies to boost defence and restart nuclear reactors shut after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Exit polls showed incumbent governors backed by Abe’s Liberal DemocraticRead More

Berlin, Germany’s foreign minister welcomed Democrat Hillary Clinton’s expected announcement that she will run for the US presidency in the 2016 election race, saying she had showed herself to be a strong partner for Europe. Clinton is expected to officially open her campaign later on Sunday as her party’s prohibitive frontRead More

Doha, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned today of the growing links between organised crime and extremist violence, saying they are feeding off each other “like never before”. Speaking in Doha at the opening of a UN anti-crime meeting, Ban said more needed to be done to tackle both crime andRead More

New Delhi, The Centre has put restrictions on the travel of governors saying they have to stay in their respective states for at least 292 days in a year and not leave station until or unless approved by the President. The fresh diktat from the Narendra Modi government came afterRead More

Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over CBI notice to her party asking for details of its accounts, saying “nothing happens without his orders”. “The CBI is the Prime Minister’s department, nothing happens without hisRead More

New Delhi, Fighting population explosion back home, Pakistan has expressed keen interest in India’s family planning programme. The Pakistan delegation raised the issue during the bilateral meeting with the Indian side at the just-concluded gathering of the SAARC Health Ministers in New Delhi. Top sources in the government today told TheRead More