External agency to conduct survey and independent audit of STPs Asks DCs to submit status report of land acquisition within 2 days Chandigarh,  Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed the local bodies department to ensure coverage of all towns of Punjab with ultra modern sewerage systemRead More

Chandigarh,  The Punjab Government would spend Rs. 20 crore to construct 17391 toilets free of cost in rural areas for the families living under below poverty line. Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Mr. Sikander Singh Maluka said that he has already given his nod to a proposal to provide sanitationRead More

Badal for Zero discharge treatment technology for industrial effluents   Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal would take up the serious matter of flowing heavy discharge of industrial effluents and domestic waste into the drains with the Punjab Governor Mr. Shivraj V Patil, who is also the AdministratorRead More

Edmonton ,Jim Prentice is the new leader of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party, after winning more than three times as many votes as his two competitors combined. Mr. Prentice spent much of his 20-minute acceptance speech acknowledging many Albertans have lost trust in the Tories and promising to clean up theRead More

Vancouver, A court ruling at the centre of British Columbia’s protracted teachers’ strike, which has delayed the school year for half a million students, robs the government of its ability to set education policy, the province argues in documents related to an upcoming appeal. The provincial government also denies a judge’sRead More

Washington,  President Barack Obama says that the surge of immigrant children entering the US illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off a pledge to use executive action that could have shielded millions of people from deportation. Immigration reform advocates criticised Obama afterRead More

Chandigarh-  Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday urged the central government to review the procedure for fixing the minimum support price (MSP) for crops to make it more remunerative and improve the viability of farming. Dwelling on the formula to be evolved for fixing the MSP, Badal saidRead More

Ottawa,Stephen Harper has offered up a defence in the face of an onslaught of criticism from former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Mulroney sternly rebuked the government for its approach to foreign policy in an interview with CTV. On the 30th anniversary of his historic majority election win, the 75-year-old MulroneyRead More

Toronto,John Tory used a mayoral debate hosted by the Toronto Region Board of Trade Thursday to tout the benefits of his SmartTrack proposal while Rob Ford repeatedly called the rapid transit plan “backtrack” and preached that “subways are the way to go.” The debate at the Hilton on Richmond StreetRead More

New Delhi, It seems social media is too impressed with PM Narendra Modi as he has been rated as the world’s second-most followed politician on Twitter after Barack Obama. After being appointed as the Prime Minister of the country, he has added more than 2 million followers in the firstRead More