Why are Indian international students in Canada rushing to learn French? Chandigarh: The pathway to Canadian permanent residency has become more difficult in recent years, despite the country admitting a historic high of 500,000 permanent residents annually. However, the widening pool of applicants hasn’t kept pace with demand. Canada issuesRead More

Patanjali advertisements: SC comes down hard on Ramdev, Acharya Balkrishna for ‘absolute defiance’ New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down hard on yoga guru Ramdev and managing director of Patanjali Ayurved Acharya Balkrishna for their “absolute defiance” in not filing proper affidavits of compliance in the misleading advertisement caseRead More

8 Naxalites killed in encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur Raipur: In a major anti-insurgency operation, eight Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, police said. Bijapur district comes under the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in theRead More

New Delhi: The 14-day bilateral tri-service exercise between India and the US, ‘Tiger Triumph-24’, has concluded, officials said on Sunday. The exercise that began on March 18 aimed at developing interoperability for conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations and refining standard operating procedures to enable rapid and smoothRead More

BJP declares candidates in Punjab, fields Preneet Kaur, Hans Raj Hans New Delhi:  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released another list of 11 Lok Sabha candidates for Odisha, Punjab, and West Bengal. In the latest list, the saffron party has announced three candidates from Odisha, five from PunjabRead More

Indian Tejas Mark 1A jet makes maiden flight New Delhi: The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Mark 1A fighter jet, an upgraded version of the existing Tejas jet, completed its maiden flight today, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said. However, the expected schedule of deliveries of the plane to the Indian AirRead More

  Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a precocious talent Jaipur: Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a precocious talent as he struck a stunning 84 not out off 45 balls to set up a 12-run win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals in their IPLRead More

Gangster Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest in Jail Banda, UP: Jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari, 60, died due to a cardiac arrest at a local hospital in Banda on Thursday. A medical bulletin issued by Rani Durgavati Medical College, Banda, put the time of his death at 8.25 pm. ItRead More

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann blessed with baby girl Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his wife Dr Gurpreet Kaur on Thursday welcomed a baby girl. Mann shared the news on X with a post written in Punjabi. “God has given the gift of a daughter…Both the mother and theRead More

Rescuers lose hope of finding survivors from bridge collapse BALTIMORE: Rescuers have lost hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse, the US coast guard said as efforts switched on Wednesday to looking for bodies of the missing and more answers to why a container ship smashed intoRead More