Edmonton ,Jim Prentice is the new leader of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party, after winning more than three times as many votes as his two competitors combined. Mr. Prentice spent much of his 20-minute acceptance speech acknowledging many Albertans have lost trust in the Tories and promising to clean up theRead More

Vancouver, A court ruling at the centre of British Columbia’s protracted teachers’ strike, which has delayed the school year for half a million students, robs the government of its ability to set education policy, the province argues in documents related to an upcoming appeal. The provincial government also denies a judge’sRead More

Vancouver, British Columbia’s government has turned down a proposal to try to end the province’s teachers strike, rejecting a suggestion to enter into binding arbitration. Education Minister Peter Fassbender said government negotiator Peter Cameron advised against such a move. Fassbender issued a statement on Saturday saying he agreed, calling theRead More

Saskatoon,A nine-year-old boy in Saskatoon may get a stern talking to from his parents, but won’t be charged with an offence after stealing and crashing a city bus on Saturday morning. Saskatoon Police say no one was injured after the boy hopped into an empty bus that was parked outsideRead More

Washington,  President Barack Obama says that the surge of immigrant children entering the US illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off a pledge to use executive action that could have shielded millions of people from deportation. Immigration reform advocates criticised Obama afterRead More

Tehran, Iran on Sunday accused the US of not taking the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria seriously, and charged that US aid had previously helped the jihadists. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif levelled the accusations despite an expanding US air campaign in Iraq since August 8Read More

New Delhi: As new permutations and combinations are building up to form government in the nation’s capital, the BJP is set to hold a Central Election Committee meet on September 9 which may likely to put an end to political deadlock in Delhi, as per reports on Sunday. The BJPRead More

New Delhi,Putting to rest the debate on printing of one rupee notes, the Law Ministry has opined that the Government of India has all the powers to print currency notes of this denomination. While the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has the authority to issue bank notes of denominational valuesRead More

New Delhi: A day after the Aam Aadmi Party sought President Pranab Mukherjee’s intervention in not allowing Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to invite BJP to form a government in Delhi, Congress, too, said that they will protest against the BJP on the issue of government formation in Delhi. Delhi PradeshRead More

Gurdaspur: At least six border villages across the Ravi river remained cut off following flooding of the Basanter Nullah. The affected villages are Ghania ke Bet, Kassowal, Puranawal, Lallowal Gunia, Saharanpur and Mansore. The flood waters also breached an embankment on the Indian side after the flow of water increasedRead More