Chandigarh, BJP national secretary Tarun Chugh has hailed the successful tour of US President Barack Obama and termed it as a diplomatic win for honourable prime minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister’s invitation to US President and Obama’s acceptance of the same had drawn the attention of entire world towards indiaRead More

Jalandhar, The body of gangster Sukha Kahlwan, who was killed near Phagwara last week while in police custody, was cremated amid tight security at his native village Kahlwan near Kartarpur today.At least 150 policemen from three police stations at Lambra, Maqsudan and Kartarpur were deployed at all five entries to theRead More

Chandigarh, The state’s fiscal mess could not get worse than this. Even as the entire top brass of the ruling alliance is busy in Delhi to campaign for the crucial Assembly elections, the government barely averted falling into the trap of fiscal profligacy. Had it not been for the loan ofRead More

Chandigarh, In a significant judgment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the medical examination of a rape accused is a must. It has acquitted an accused after holding that he was not subjected to a medical examination. “As per the admitted case of the prosecution, noRead More

Moga, Moga MLA Joginder Pal Jain and senior Akali leader and Agriculture Minister Jathedar Tota Singh are at loggerheads to accommodate their loyalists in the Municipal Corporation elections, which are due next month. The party in-charge for the local body polls, Irrigation Minister Sharanjit Dhillon, held a meeting with Jain andRead More

Chandigarh, The crucial Delhi elections will see the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) playing the Sikh card to the hilt. The stakes are high for the SAD — which wants to emerge as a national player — and its alliance partner the BJP, which hopes to capture power in the national capital.Read More

* More than 4,500 flights cancelled; no trains or buses in New York, Boston or New Jersey Boston/New York, A blizzard dropped more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, falling short of the massive predicted snowfall that prompted officials across the region toRead More

New Delhi, National Conference has decided to join hands with Congress and pitch Ghulam Nabi Azad as a joint candidate for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha polls to be held next month in Jammu and Kashmir. The decision was arrived after a meeting between Congress President Sonia Gandhi dand National ConferenceRead More

New Delhi, Hitting the campaign trail, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held a road show in south Delhi during which he asserted that Congress will stage a comeback and accused the government of neglecting the poor for the sake of “three to four” corporates. The Congress Vice President was also dismissiveRead More

New Delhi, Taking “serious note” of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s repeated remarks asking voters to accept bribe from the Congress and the BJP but vote for his party, the Election Commission on Tuesday directed him to desist from making such comments in future and warned of stern action in caseRead More