Chandigarh, After having received the “Most Progressive State in Tourism” award from GoI, Punjab has yet again earned the international acclaim when it was selected as the “Best Rural Tourism Initiative Award for the Farm Tourism” at International Tourism Conclave & Travel Awards (ITCTA) held in Shimla to mark WorldRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today gave nod to grant further extension in the term of nine Chairpersons of the District Planning Committees for another year. Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the CMO said that Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal cleared theRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today strongly condemned the cold blooded killing of two brothers by the Khanna police in Jamalpur village of Ludhiana district in a fake encounter. In a statement, the PPCC chief said no bigger evidence was needed to prove that the lawRead More

Toronto, Toronto will be the centre of the universe next week. The city will host the 65th International Astronautical Congress, a conference aimed at helping companies in the space business. As well as looking at where man has gone and may go in the future, the meeting will examine howRead More

Incheon, Star wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt notched up India’s fourth gold medal, while Khushbir Kaur became the first woman from the country to win a medal in 20km Race Walking by clinching a silver as India shot up to eighth in overall standings on the ninth day of competitions in theRead More

New York, A delegation of Sikh-Americans has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove the hurdles faced by them while applying for visas or renewal of passports, particularly by those who had applied for political asylum in 1980s. “The NRI Sikh community feels alienated as Indian Embassies refuse them visasRead More

Washington, Russia’s foreign secretary said relations between Moscow and Washington need – in his words, a new “reset” – referring to U.S. President Barack Obama’s effort to improve ties with Russia in the early days of his administration. In a Russian television interview airing Sunday, Sergey Lavrov blamed the UnitedRead More

SANLIURFA: Airstrikes likely carried out by a U.S.-led coalition struck an oil refinery in Syria held by the Islamic State group Sunday, a witness said, shaking buildings and sending flames shooting into the air near the Turkish border. Explosions lit the sky “for two hours” at the refinery in theRead More

Monrovia, Doctors are in short supply. So are beds for patients. Six months into the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is needed is huge. Even as countriesRead More

New York, Prime Minister Narendra Modi debuted on the international stage on Saturday with a swipe at Pakistan, making a pitch for a united fight against terrorism, even as he took a dig at the various factions within the UN and pushed for reforms of the Security Council by next yearRead More