New Delhi/Chennai, Ahead of the 2015-16 Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said there was a need to rationalise all subsidies and ensure stability in policies to attract investment and drive growth. “From January 1 LPG subsidy is going though banks…We have to gradually rationalise all possible subsidies,” theRead More

Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday alleged that successive Congress governments at the Centre had pursued the policy of “excessive centralisation” of power due to which states have suffered. He was interacting with media on the sidelines of ‘Sangat Darshan’ programme in Lambi Assembly ofRead More

Chandigarh/Kolkata, Notwithstanding the fact that it apparently indicts late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for India’s military defeat in the 1962 war with China, Congress MP and former army Captain Amarinder Singh has called for the release of the Henderson-Brooks report. “The report should have been out a long time ago.Read More

Chandigarh,  Arvind Khanna, Congress MLA from Dhuri yesterday resigned from the Punjab Assembly and active politics citing personal reasons. “I have decided to go ahead with my resignation from the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and active politics to devote my time to my family and business. I had decided to resignRead More

New Delhi, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today alleged that the BJP-led Union Government had transferred Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) main investigator in the drug money-laundering case in Punjab at the behest of its ally, SAD. It claimed that an attempt was being made to make Delhi the “drug capital” ofRead More

Jalandhar,  As many as 754 NRIs are wanted by the Punjab Police, most of them from the Doaba region. Sources said 843 NRIs were declared POs (proclaimed offenders) by the state police last year. But the names of 89 were deleted for various reasons such as death and quashing ofRead More

Ludhiana,  On the third and concluding Sangat Darshan for NRIs, only 174 persons from seven districts, Ludhiana, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur, Ropar and SAS Nagar- appeared with their complaints. Most of these were regarding land disputes and marital discord. As many as 233 complaints were receivedRead More

Toronto, Rob Ford is endorsing Progressive Conservative MPP Monte McNaughton in his bid to become the provincial party’s next leader. The former mayor made the surprise endorsement on Friday. “I’m supporting Monte McNaughton because he’s a family man — he’s the conservative in the PC leadership race,” Ford said aboutRead More

Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne continues to be dogged by questions about her handling of the appointment of a Liberal candidate in a byelection in Sudbury. The provincial Conservatives have called for Ontario Provincial Police to re-open an investigation into how former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault was picked for theRead More

Markham, Police are looking for two men they say stole a vehicle in Markham during a carjacking. York Regional Police say two men, one of them armed with a handgun, approached a man in his white Mercedes-Benz shortly before 11 a.m. Friday. The men pointed a gun at the car’sRead More