Amritsar, PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa today accused the ruling Akali Dal of raking up its Panthic agenda merely to divert the people’s attention from its misrule of eight years in Punjab. Bajwa said, “Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal is meeting Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today. Why didn’t the AkaliRead More

Amritsar,  Sikh activist Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, who was to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple today, could not make it to Amritsar. There were reports that his supporters were headed towards the city. Apprehending trouble, the police last night took some Sikh leaders into preventive custody. They were let offRead More

Ottawa, Stephen Harper tightened his own belt this week, voluntarily — and quietly — accepting a pension cut that will likely cost him more than a million dollars. The prime minister doesn’t need our sympathy. He’ll still have a very comfortable pension, but he deserves credit for showing leadership andRead More

  Mayor Tory wants ‘the facts’ Toronto, City council will look at privatizing garbage on Toronto’s east side, thanks to a request by Coun. Jaye Robinson on Tuesday. Robinson added an item asking for study of garbage collection east of Yonge Street. The report is due back in April. PrivateRead More

Edmonton, Former Wildrose MLA-turned Tory Rob Anderson will not be running in the next provincial election.   Anderson used social media late Monday night to make the announcement, tweeting a link to his Facebook page where he posted a letter explaining his decision.   The Airdrie MLA was among eightRead More

Paris, Black-hooded gunmen shot dead at least 12 persons, including two police officers, at the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a satirical publication firebombed in the past after publishing cartoons lampooning Muslim leaders and the Prophet Mohammad, the police said. President Francois Hollande headed to the sceneRead More

New Delhi, Visitors to Rashtrapati Bhavan will now be able to get a glimpse of the Nobel Peace Prize received by child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, who dedicated the honour to the nation by presenting his medal to President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday. The medal was dedicated by Satyarthi toRead More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said he will speak to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in the wake of his letter to his counterparts in five states seeking premature release of 13 convicted terrorists. “I will talk to him (Badal) on this issue,” Singh told reporters here.Read More

Chandigarh, Punjab Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini today made it clear that there was no prisoner in the jails in the state who had completed his sentence and was yet to be released. There was only one prisoner in Punjab in Nabha jail who was part of theRead More

* Only a sudden drug test can deliver results against Bajwa Chandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) senior leader and general secretary Bikram Singh Majithia today said Pradesh Congress president Partap Bajwas’s shady past and long history of drug smuggling and links with terror modules had been officially detailed by formerRead More