Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress would launch massive ‘Save Punjab’ anti-drug awareness campaign from tomorrow in the state to combat this menace which has spread like a virus afflicting particularly the youth. Announcing this here today, the state party chief Mr Partap Singh Bajwa said the programme had ben chalked outRead More

Chandigarh, South Carolina Governor Niikki Haley today said her State would like to support Punjab in establishing aero space, Pharma, tourism and agro processing industries while visiting Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here. Ms Haley, who called on the Deputy CM at his official residence here, said South CarolinaRead More

Toronto,  Sears Canada has dramatically reduced its workforce amid declining sales, but newly appointed acting CEO Ronald Boire insists he hasn’t come to Canada to play the retailer’s swan song. “If you look at my past that’s not what I’ve done,” he said in an interview Wednesday at the company’sRead More

United Nations, The United States told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday there needs to be greater international pressure on Russia to abide by a ceasefire in Ukraine, as Russia denied it was a threat to its neighbour. The 15-member council held its 26th meeting on Ukraine. A ceasefireRead More

WASHINGTON: Two US-based rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the US Army for allegedly not enlisting a Sikh student in the Reserve Officer Training Corps programme, unless he shaved his beard and cut his hair. The lawsuit, filed by United Sikh and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) yesterday, inRead More

Jerusalem: US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Jordan on Thursday for talks aimed at calming a wave of violence gripping Israel and the occupied territories. The meeting in Amman came hours after fresh clashes broke out in east Jerusalem where Israeli police fired tearRead More

Jerusalem, Israel will not cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into its 50-day war with rocket-firing militants in Gaza this summer, a government spokesman said today. “Since the Schabas commission is not an inquiry but a commission that gives its conclusions in advance, Israel will not cooperate with the UNRead More

NEW DELHI: Paving the way for implementation of trade facilitation pacts at WTO, India and the United States have resolved an impasse over food security-related issues while safeguarding interest of Indian farmers. With the US agreeing to support India’s proposal on public stockpiling of food, it would now go forRead More

MUMBAI: A day after the Devendra Fadnavis led government won the floor test by a voice vote, its former ally Shiv Sena on Thursday accused the Maharashtra government of violating constitutional provisions by proving its majority amid high chaos and strangulating age-old traditions of the state. The Sena also saidRead More

  NEW DELHI: The government today raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 1.50 a litre, but consumers will be spared of any price increase as oil firms would adjust it with a reduction in retail rates that was due this weekend. The move will boost government revenueRead More