New Delhi, India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was re-elected as one of the seven members of the International Shooting Sport Federation’s (ISSF) Athlete Commission. Bindra, who was first elected during the 2010 World Shooting Championships in Munich, was re-elected during the just concluded Worlds in Granada, Spain.Read More

Mumbai, Khoobsurat may not have performed as expected at the box office but the film was received quite well. Sonam in particular was charming in the Disney film and the little fashionista almost looked like the perfect Disney princess. Apparently, even Disney seems impressed by Sonam’s Khoobsurat performance and haveRead More

Paris, A corruption investigation against French former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been suspended, French media say. They quote judicial sources as saying that Paris appeals court will now study a request by Mr Sarkozy for the case to be dismissed. Mr Sarkozy, 59, is still facing several other judicial investigations.Read More

Bangalore, India Wednesday made history by becoming the first country in the world to enter the Martian orbit in its maiden attempt. “The spacecraft (Orbiter) was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit at 515 km away from the red planet’s surface and 215 million km away from the earth inRead More

New Delhi, In a massive shuffling exercise of an unprecedented scale, many as 38 officers were appointed as joint secretaries at one go. In some cases, there were lateral shifts. In others, fresh appointments were made, in which officers serving as directors will soon join as joint secretaries, for theRead More

Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Wednesday said the alliance with NCP for next month’s Assembly elections would be difficult to sew up if “impossible” conditions were laid down. “Congress is keen on continuing the alliance with NCP to keep the communal forces at bay. But if impossible conditions areRead More

Bathinda, Congress leader and former MP Surinder Singla today said voices within the party to replace Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa were getting louder with each passing day. He claimed a number of senior leaders had conveyed their sentiment to the party high command. He said he had recentlyRead More

Chandigarh , Punjab and Haryana High Court will have 12 new additional judges who would be sworn in on Thursday. Stating this, an official spokesman said the new judges, who will be sworn in, are Bawa Singh Walia, Raj Mohan Singh, Jaishree Thakur, Amit Rawal, Deepak Sibal, Hari Pal Verma,Read More

Chandigarh, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi toady resolved that to fulfil the dream project of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for including sanitation on top of the government agenda and his pledge to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, by making the cities of indiaRead More

Chandigarh,  After failing to buy cars for ministers and MLAs last year due to paucity of funds, the cash-starved state has started the process of buying 113 luxury cars by calling tenders. The cars would cost Rs 18 crore to the state exchequer. The deal would be finalised only whenRead More