Sultanpur Lodhi (Kapurthala), The 700-year-old pillar of the historic Lahori Gate of Quila Serai building, which collapsed after heavy rainfall on Thursday, has finally managed to catch the attention of the state government. A team from Punjab tourism and heritage department, led by experts from Drona consultancy, visited the site onRead More

Amritsar, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport has virtual turned into a relief camp with as many as 1,500 people evacuating from flood-hit Srinagar landing at the Holy City since late Saturday night. With the air force intensifying the evacuation process, five aircrafts carrying 842 passengers landed here lateRead More

Fazilka, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday called for the “faultless execution” of the master plan to end water logging in the state. Winding up his three-day tour in rain-triggered waterlogged districts of the state, Badal said the master plan conceived by the state government last year, after minutely observingRead More

Chandigarh, Three persons died and 50 were injured when a Haryana Roadways bus (HR 37-C 3414) fell into Began river near Baragaon village under Naraingarh sub division on Monday morning.Locals said 60 passengers were on board the Ambala depot bus which was on its way to Ambala from Naraingarh, addingRead More

Jalandhar, A team of Jalandhar commissionerate police left for India from Sydney after taking custody of Jaskaran Singh Kalsi alias Jassa, an accused in the Yannick murder case, on Monday morning. The team led by additional deputy commissioner of police (special branch) Baljit Singh Dhillon is expected to land inRead More

Vancouver,  The New Democrats are promising to bring back the minimum wage for employees who work in federally regulated sectors. NDP leader Tom Mulcair announced on Saturday that if the NDP forms the next government it would set a minimum wage of $15 an hour for those who work in companiesRead More

Toronto, Last-minute Toronto mayoral candidate Doug Ford won’t hit the campaign trail until Monday, but his political rivals were already on the offensive this weekend. Mayoral candidates Olivia Chow and John Tory slammed Doug Ford’s track record as a city councillor on Saturday, while offering their best wishes to hisRead More

Toronto, The Teranet-National Bank house price index was up almost 0.8 per cent in August, with the strongest gains in Winnipeg, the Ottawa-Gatineau region and Toronto. It was the second consecutive month in which prices were up in 10 of the 11 Canadian metropolitan markets surveyed. Montreal was the only cityRead More

Islamabad , In a major boost to the morale of anti-government protesters, a Pakistani court on Sunday ordered the release of all arrested supporters of Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, a day after the two leaders suspended talks and mounted pressure on the embattled government. Pakistani police arrested several protesters and aRead More

Singapore, Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU +1.96% said Sunday that one of its planes bound for India returned to Kuala Lumpur due to a fault with its autopilot system. Flight 198 left Kuala Lumpur at 10:20 p.m. Saturday for Hyderabad, India, and returned nearly four hours later, Malaysia Airlines said in aRead More