CHANDIGARH: Releasing the official reports showing merely 68 conviction against more than 35000 proven cases of violence against Sikhs during November 1984, All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) and Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) announced to approach the United Nations urging to take co...

CHANDIGARH: The State Election Commission Wednesday issued notification for the election of Gram Panchayats in Punjab. With the issuance of notifica...

 CHANDIGARH:  The State Election Commission (SEC) has issued strict directions for the compliance of model code of conduct which has come...

CHANDIGARH: The result of Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (PSTET) has been declared which could be seen on the website www.tetpunjab.com. It was disclosed today by an Official Spokesperson of the state government.He said that PSTET-1 was taken for ETT candidates whereas ...

CHANDIGARH: A timely respite from heavy rainfall, which was witnessed over last weekend, over most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday has...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee today welcomed the statement of Punjab BJP President Kamal Sharma supporting Congress party’s demand...

NEW DELHI: Over 62,000 pilgrims and tourists are still stranded in calamity-hit Uttarakhand while 11,000 have been rescued. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are to undertake an aerial survey of the extensive damage. The toll in the havoc caused by ...

PATNA:  Ahead of the trust vote Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sught in the assembly Wednesday, friend-turned-foe BJP has said it is pre...

NEW DELHI: A meeting between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran L.K. Advani was cal...

KOLKATA:  The Calcutta High Court Wednesday refused to order a CBI probe into the Saradha Group chit fund scam, but did not dispose of the matter "in the interest of justice". Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Justice A.K. Banerjee and Justice M.K. ...

KEDARNATH: The heavy rain in Uttarakhand also resulted in washing away compound of Hindu shrine, Kedarnath, though the temple was not damaged s...

NEW DELHI: The muddy, swirling waters of the Yamuna river were flowing over the danger mark Wednesday, leading to the closure of the city's 145...

HARIDWAR/LUCKNOW: Akash and his three friends watched in horror as a rain swollen river in Uttarakhand washed away their car, leaving them stranded. On their return to Haridwar, they said they escaped the nature's fury by taking shelter at a private helipad.  All four fe...

NEW DELHI: The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), billed as the government’s most ambitious scheme for ridding the country of slums, is to be tweaked b...

GULMARG: Like a phoenix risen from the ashes, Kashmir has once again got a five-star luxury resort two decades after the only such property in ...

SOHRA: It has been raining cats and dogs in India's northern states, but Cherrapunjee (renamed Sohra) - known as one of the wettest places on the earth - nestled in the abode of clouds in Meghalaya in is "burning hot" at over 28 degrees Celsius! Residents of the hilltop in nort...

CHANDIGARH: It could have been THE address, north of Chandigarh's upscale areas. However, even before the first brick for the controversial Tat...

NEW DELHI: Having established itself as the backroom office for global businesses with a flourishing outsourcing industry, India is taking step...

LONDON/MUMBAI: Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking system, an official said. By the court verdict, the British government's sanctions on Iran'...

DUBAI:  Around 5,000 expatriate Indians in Saudi Arabia, affected by a new labour policy in the Gulf nation, have found new jobs, the Indian co...

LUDHIANA: Ludhiana District Congress Committee president Pawan Dewan today said that the Punjabis interested in immigration to Canada must always ad...

KATHMANDU:  The third edition of the Nepal-Africa Film Festival opened with the screening of "Earth Anthem", a short film written, produced and directed by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. The screening of the 2.5-minute-long film was held Wednesday at the Russian Cultural Centre i...

SYDNEY: Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurant earlier this ...

WELLINGTON: Two men accused of murdering an Indian-origin man in New Zealand in January have pleaded not guilty and are now headed for trial.Bryne Pel...

MUMBAI:Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who is presenting "Ship Of Theseus", says it would not have been wise to let her filmmaker-actor husband Aamir Khan present the film as he would have managed to pull a crowd, but the film can't take a wide audience. Rao is releasing director Anand Gandhi's...

MUMBAI:Popular stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma, who has turned producer with "Comedy Nights with Kapil", considers his 12-year theatre experience, wh...

MUMBAI:If she played a high-on-fashion girl in "Aisha", she even essayed a simple girl in "Delhi-6" and "Mausam". Actress Sonam Kapoor, who will now...

LOS ANGELES: “Hangover” star Bradley Cooper has been voted 'the man with the sexiest hair' in a survey carried out by hair brand Fudge. He has beaten Canadian actor Ryan Gosling and footballer David Beckham to secure the top position, reports contactmusic.com. The 38-year-old s...

LOS ANGELES:Socialite Kim Kardashian's sister Kourtney has reportedly asked the new mother to be more careful with her lifestyle now. Kim, 32, gav...

MUMBAI:TV actress Esha Kansara, who played the strong-headed Devki in "Mukti Bandhan", says she wanted to break the image of her past character with...