CHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 8: Punjab has finalised all the preliminary arrangements for the Punjab State Teachers (TET) scheduled to be held on December 13, 2015. To guard 333 examination centres coordination with District Civil and Police administration has been established so that 1,73,975 students could appear in TET-1 and TET-2. Disclosing thisRead More

OTTAWA — NATO wants to see Canada play a role in its reconstituted military mission to train Iraqi security forces — an idea the alliance’s secretary general pitched directly to Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, The Canadian Press has learned. Jens Stoltenberg’s approach, made on the sidelines of last week’sRead More

OTTAWA — The Senate’s spending rules didn’t need to spell out every detail of what was allowed to be expensed because much of it was “self-explanatory” and “intuitive” for senators, the upper chamber’s new Speaker told court Monday. Two independent auditors — those from Deloitte who were tasked with reviewingRead More

Patiala, The voices of dissent have started erupting over the issue of possible induction of senior BJP leader and former MP Navjot Singh Sidhu into the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). With speculations rife that Sidhu and his wife Dr Navjot Kaur, who is Chief Parliamentary Secretary, may join AAP, Patiala MPRead More

New Delhi: In a blow to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, the Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed their pleas challenging summons issued to them in the National Herald case. Petitions are dismissed,” Justice Sunil Gaur said in his judgement while also declining another of theirRead More

New Delhi, December 7 : Urging the Union Minister for Water Resources (MoWR) Ms. Uma Bharti, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today sought early clearance of various irrigation projects pending with the Ministry at different stages worth Rs. 5236.71 crore including the re-lining of Rajasthan and SirhindRead More

CHANDIGARH, December 7: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today expressed grave concern over the fears expressed by the Kings XI cricket team about the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab. Holding the Akali government responsible for the sense of fear and uncertainty, Capt Amarinder said, thisRead More

Chandigarh, December 7: People’s Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today said Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is also the home minister, has failed to remove the perception of this state being unsafe as evident from the decision of IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab to move outRead More

Amritsar, December 7:  Dal Khalsa has decided to submit shocking revelations made by former police official-cum-cat Gurmit Singh Pinki into blatant violations of human rights to UN seeking international probe into extra-judicial killings in Punjab during militancy. Taking a dig at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief MinisterRead More

Amritsar, December 5: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today said that Aam Aadmi Party has committed fraud with the people of country and exposed itself as organized gang of looters who were bent upon robbing the exchequer in a well planned way by misusing the tag ofRead More