Chandigarh, November 20 – Punjab Government has given its final touches to arrangements for successful conduct of 5th World Cup Kabaddi Punjab-2014 at 14 different locations in the state. During this mega event 10 national teams in men and 8 in women would compete to win prizes amounting to Rs.Read More

Malout (Sri Muktsar Sahib), Preliminary Meetings cum orientation programme of all Schools Heads, Block Primary Education Officers (BPEO’s) and Center Head Teachers (CHT’s) has been held here under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Programme. A total of 235 participants attended the orientation programme organized under the dynamic leadership ofRead More

Chandigarh, Nov20: The Punjab Government has issued fresh instruction pertaining to the foreign visits of IAS officers. All the departments have been asked to put up the cadre clearance recommendations, regarding IAS officer’s foreign visit, to the personnel department 15 days prior to the visit. Disclosing this here today anRead More

Chandigarh, A day after his arrest, evasive ‘godman’ Rampal was on Thursday produced before the Punjab and Haryana high court in a contempt of court case and was sent to judicial custody. The two-judge Bench posted the matter to November 28 with a direction to Haryana Police chief to file an affidavit giving details of theRead More

Chandigarh,The Punjab today forcefully raised sought a package on the pattern of Ganga river for rejuvenation and cleaning of all rivers of Punjab besides seeking a one time allocation for relining and redesigning the archaic canal system that was responsible for success of Green Revolution in country. Speaking to aRead More

Khanaura (Hoshiarpur), Terming the various Centers of Excellence being set up by the state government as ‘Harbingers of Second Green Revolution’, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that these ultra modern centers would help in giving the much needed push to second green revolution in theRead More

Chandigarh, November 20: The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today condemned the police lathi-charge on the agitating students of the Punjabi University, Patiala. In a statement, Mr Bajwa said the tyrannical government of Mr Parkash Singh Badal was out to crush every section of society raising voice forRead More

Paris: World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear programme are united in their search for an agreement and are not discussing an extension of the deadline, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. “Yes, we do want an agreement but not any agreement,” said Kerry. “We areRead More

Krzyzowa: Russia is key to ensuring European security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday as she marked a quarter century of reconciliation with neighbouring Poland. “We are aware that Europe’s security can only be ensured, in the medium and long term, with Russia,” Merkel said at a ceremony withRead More

Ankara: The Islamic State (IS) group of jihadists has “impaled itself” on Kobane by pouring fighters into the strategic Syrian town so they can be bombed by the US-led coalition, a senior US envoy said on Thursday. Retired General John Allen, coordinator of the coalition against IS in Iraq andRead More