Jalandhar/Amritsar, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today revoked the expulsion of its 23 leaders from Punjab, in a development that invited sharp reactions from a section of the leadership in the state.Sanjay Singh, AAP political affairs committee member and national spokesman, sent an e-mail to Punjab convener Sucha Singh ChhotepurRead More

Dhuri, With SAD (Amritsar) candidate Surjit Singh Kalabula managing to secure considerable support during campaigning, the Dhuri Assembly bypoll is likely to witness a triangular contest between the SAD, Congress and the SAD (Amritsar). The campaigning for the April 11 byelection, necessitated after the resignation by Congress MLA Arvind Khanna, concludedRead More

Dhuri, A truck carrying sports kits with pictures of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was today allegedly seized by Congress activists at Jahangir village, 16 km from here, in the bypoll-bound Dhuri Assembly constituency. After the recovery, the Congress activists were quick to approach the poll officials and demandedRead More

Chandigarh, Elaborate arrangements have been made for holding free and fair by poll to be held in Dhuri on April 11. Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Electoral Officer said that about 166 polling booths have been set up and 6 battalions of military and para-military forcesRead More

Chandigarh, Accusing PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa and CLP leader Sunil Jakhar of misleading people of Punjab, BJP national secretary Tarun Chugh today came out with facts and figures to counter the malicious propaganda unleashed by Congress leaders. Chugh said that the government led by Punjab chief minister Sr.  ParkashRead More

* BJP to celebrate birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar on April 14 at block level Chandigarh: The Punjab BJP would once again give impetus to its ongoing membership campaign in the state by re-launching this drive from April 15. In this special drive, all wings of the party would onceRead More

Ottawa — Canadian warplanes have bombed their first targets in Syria, Defence Minister Jason Kenney announced online late Wednesday. The milestone event came out via the minister’s Twitter account and even seemed to get out ahead of the military, which had not posted news of the strike on its websiteRead More

Lahore: The mastermind of the 26/11 attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, has been released from a jail in Pakistan, drawing immediate condemnation from India. “This is a serious setback, it’s deeply disappointing,” said Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Lakhvi was first granted bail in December, but was kept in prison by theRead More

Panama city: The United States and Cuba, moving to restore ties after decades of Cold War enmity, made progress on Thursday in historic talks, a US State Department official said. The official was referring to discussions between Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, the first ministerial-levelRead More

Aden, Iran’s leader on Thursday condemned the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabia in Yemen as genocide, sharply escalating Tehran’s rhetoric against the two-week-old campaign of air strikes. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saudi Arabia would not emerge victorious from the war in Yemen, where Iran-allied Houthi fighters whoRead More