New Delhi: The Union government on Wednesday decided to leave it to the “wisdom of the Supreme Court” on declaring IPC Section 377 criminalising consensual gay acts of two adults as unconstitutional or not. Additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta made this submission before a five-judge Constitution Bench comprising the ChiefRead More

Hyderabad: Sri Peetham pontiff Swami Paripoornananda of Kakinada was externed from Hyderabad for six months for making “provocative statements”. He was escorted by the police to an ashram in Kakinada on Wednesday. The police said that the pontiff was externed from Hyderabad under the Telangana Prevention of Anti-Social and HazardousRead More

Chennai: J Jayalalithaa was against weight loss surgery to improve her health, a doctor said during her deposition before a one-man panel probing the former Tamil Nadu chief minister’s death. During cross-examination, Dr Jayashree Gopal, a diabetologist with a leading hospital, deposed that Jayalalithaa had said “no” to surgery andRead More

Chandigarh, The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) General Secretary Mr. Manjinder Singh Sirsa today talked to Gulab Singh Shaheen, a sikh police officer of Pakistan who was thrown out of his home in Pakistan and was also manhandled by some miscreants, and assured all help to him from DSGMCRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday expressed disappointment at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to address any of the major concerns of the farmers at his Malout rally, while lashing out at the Akalis for betraying Punjab by allowing the Haryana Chief Minister to be present onRead More

Chandigarh, AAP Legislative Wing Spokesperson and Kharar MLA, Mr. Kanwar Sandhu has demanded that all admissions being done in government and government-aided colleges in Chandigarh for the coming 2018-2019 academic session should be halted and fresh admissions done on the 60:40 ratio between Punjab and Haryana students. Since Chandigarh isRead More

Malout: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress, alleging that it had betrayed the peasantry and used them as vote bank to further the interests of “one particular family”. PM Modi said that despite toiling hard, farmers could not think of a comfortable life and thatRead More

Chandigarh; Punjab Education Minister Mr. Om Prakash Soni today said that corruption in teachers’ transfers will not be tolerated at any cost. He announced that any whistle-blower, who gives information with concrete proof of bribe in the teachers’ transfers, will be rewarded with Rs.5 lakhs. He said that transfers are beingRead More

Chandigarh, Less than 24 hours after the matter was brought to his notice, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday cleared a German company’s project for setting up a Rs.100 Crore bio-gas CNG plant, which had been lying in cold storage for the past three years. Though the erstwhileRead More

Chandigarh, Adopting a policy of far reaching effects, The Punjab Government would promote the animal of indigenous breeds like Sahiwal & Gir cows and Murrah & Nili Ravi buffalos, Beetal Goats and Kadaknath Chicken breed. It was disclosed by Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and FisheriesRead More