Paris, A corruption investigation against French former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been suspended, French media say. They quote judicial sources as saying that Paris appeals court will now study a request by Mr Sarkozy for the case to be dismissed. Mr Sarkozy, 59, is still facing several other judicial investigations.Read More

Bangalore, India Wednesday made history by becoming the first country in the world to enter the Martian orbit in its maiden attempt. “The spacecraft (Orbiter) was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit at 515 km away from the red planet’s surface and 215 million km away from the earth inRead More

Bathinda, Congress leader and former MP Surinder Singla today said voices within the party to replace Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa were getting louder with each passing day. He claimed a number of senior leaders had conveyed their sentiment to the party high command. He said he had recentlyRead More

Chandigarh , Punjab and Haryana High Court will have 12 new additional judges who would be sworn in on Thursday. Stating this, an official spokesman said the new judges, who will be sworn in, are Bawa Singh Walia, Raj Mohan Singh, Jaishree Thakur, Amit Rawal, Deepak Sibal, Hari Pal Verma,Read More

Chandigarh, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi toady resolved that to fulfil the dream project of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for including sanitation on top of the government agenda and his pledge to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, by making the cities of indiaRead More

Chandigarh,  After failing to buy cars for ministers and MLAs last year due to paucity of funds, the cash-starved state has started the process of buying 113 luxury cars by calling tenders. The cars would cost Rs 18 crore to the state exchequer. The deal would be finalised only whenRead More

Chandigarh,  The Punjab government would soon promote 645 teachers as Headmasters under Promotion quota by 31st October this year. Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s office said that direction to this effect was given by the Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal during a meeting withRead More

Chandigarh, Underscoring the need for strengthening Cooperative labourfed and construction societies in the state for making them self sustainable, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that these societies should be judiciously allocated government work, so that small and marginal societies could be benefitted from it. PresidingRead More

Chandigarh,  Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today lauded the exemplary workdone by nearly 56000 enumerators and supervisors involved in the Census- 2011 in the state thus making Punjab as No. 1 state in the country for accomplishing this gigantic task diligently and in a time bound manner. Addressing the gatheringRead More

* Delegates from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh and other countries to participate * Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha Dr. Charanjit Singh Atwal reviews arrangements Chandigarh,  The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association London has chosen the agrarian state Punjab to host its prestigious workshop of Parliamentary Agriculture Committees from October 29Read More