Incheon: A spirited Indian men’s hockey team defeated arch-rivals and defending champions Pakistan 4-2 in a nerve-wracking shoot-out to end its 16-year gold medal draught in the Asian Games and earn a direct berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics, here on Thursday. It turned out to be a humdinger ofRead More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined millions of schoolchildren, officials and ordinary people who picked up brooms and dustpans Thursday in a countrywide campaign to clean parks, public buildings and streets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the road in a poor neighborhood in New Delhi while launching the CleanRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today felicitated the Indian Hockey team for bringing golden glory to the country by bagging the Gold Medal in the Asian Games. In a congratulatory message to the winning Indian squad, the Chief Minister said that the Hockey team has made everyRead More

Chandigarh,  Surjit Sports Association (Regd), Batala has demanded from the state government that the players from the state who have won gold medals in the ongoing Asian Games at Incheon (South Korea) should be rewarded with respectable cash awards and class I government jobs. The Association members said that ifRead More

Ferozepur, State BJP chief Kamal Sharma today kickstarted the Clean India campaign from Ferozepur by paying tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and thereafter, administering the oath to dedicate atleast 100 hours per year for the cleanliness for the employees of the mini-secretarial Ferozepur. According to a pressRead More

Chandigarh, The world has seen enough of the menace of war. Now is the time to promote peace throughout the globe and the onus to do this largely rests on the shoulders of the youth. Expressing these views here today at the concluding day of the 9th international youth peaceRead More

Samrala (Ludhiana)/Chandigarh, Lambasting the Deputy Chief Minister and the Home Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal for converting Punjab Police into private militia of the Akali Dal, the Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today demanded a time bound probe by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana HighRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee commemorated the 145th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi -The Father of the Nation & 110th Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister Sh. Lal Bahadur Sashtri today at Punjab Congress Bhavan, Sector-15, Chandigarh. Floral tributes to the Father of the Nation were offered by theRead More

Chandigarh,  The CPI(M) has strongly condemned the killing of two young dalit brothers at Jamalpur (Ludhiana) in most high handed manner with the connivance of police and with political motives. Comrade Charan Singh Virdi Secretary Punjab State Committee while releasing the resolution of the State Secretariat meeting held on 1stRead More

New Delhi/Chandigarh,  Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the officials of the Indian Olympic Association and the sports ministry, accompanying the athletes to South Korea for the ongoing Asian games, for not standing by Sarita Devi who was denied an opportunity toRead More