* Senior party leaders appointed on these posts Chandigarh, Sukhbir Singh Badal, President, Shiromani Akali Dal and Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab has appointed Senior Leaders as district wise observers of the party. Disclosing this from party headquarters here today, Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema, Secretary and Spokesman of the party saidRead More

* So-called rift between SAD-BJP merely media hype * Youth akali dal to have five zonal presidents * Attends sports day funcation of a private school in Khanna today Khanna (Ludhiana), Punjab Revenue, Information & Public Relations minister Mr Bikram Singh Majithia has said that all is well between bothRead More

Toronto/Auckland, On the eve of a G20 summit in Australia expected to focus in part on the crisis in Syria and Iraq, Stephen Harper says Canada does not support war on the Syrian government or any Middle East nation — only war against the Islamic State. “The government of CanadaRead More

Toronto, Andrea Horwath faces a crucial vote on her leadership Saturday as New Democrats from across Ontario meet for the first time since they placed third in the June 12 election, when the Liberals won a majority government. The leadership review is automatic, held every second year, but there areRead More

Brantford, The family of an 11-year-old aboriginal girl with cancer has a constitutional right to opt for traditional medicine over chemotherapy, an Ontario judge ruled Friday in what some observers called a landmark decision. A hospital that had been treating the First Nations girl sought to have the child apprehendedRead More

Halifax, Police in Halifax say charges will not be laid against people who published the name of the victim in a high-profile child pornography case that was subject to a publication ban. Investigators have wrapped up seven files of possible breaches of a court-ordered ban on the identity of theRead More

Toronto, A clinical trial of the made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine will be conducted in this country, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Friday. The location of the trial — Halifax — comes as a serious disappointment to Ebola researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. At leastRead More

Moscow: On the eve of G20 summit in Australia, Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday lambasted the US for violating core principles of multilateralism by imposing sanctions on his country over its conflict with Ukraine. “The sanctions and not only counter to the activities of the G20 and its principles, theyRead More

Kiev: Ukraine`s top priority is to build an army strong enough to stop Russian military aggression, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday, as he made recommendations for top positions in a new coalition government. The prospect of an all-out war returning to eastern Ukraine has piled pressure onRead More

Seoul: Marzuki Darusman, the UN`s special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Friday said the country`s leader Kim Jong-un was guilty of “complicity in crimes against humanity” and “should be held responsible” by international justice. Darusman made the remark at a press conference in Seoul, in reference to aRead More