By Abhijit Prashar-MOHALI/CHANDIGARH: A slump in the property market took its toll on the much-hyped auction of commercial sites by Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) when it failed to draw an enthusiastic response from investors.  Out of a total of 66 sites which...

By Abhijit Prashar-MOHALI/CHANDIGARH: Well-known Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Mann has been playing truant ever since he was appointed Chairman...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress has warned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of the nefarious anti-minority designs of the BJP under Narendra Mo...

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Newly-appointed Minister of State for Health Santosh Chaudhary Tuesday said she will try and fulfil the government's plans for the sector as part of her new mandate."I will first see what the states are doing specially for women and children. They are getting a lot...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday asked the Congress to stop communalizing the issue of Sikh memorials in New Delhi and Amritsar through t...

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Prices of 652 widely-used drugs in the country are likely to come down substantially by the end of next month following a noti...

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 prepared to sit in the opposition. "After sharing power with the ruling JD-U for over seven-and-half years, BJP will sit in opposition," Bi...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday that two state ministers will be sent to Uttarakhand to oversee the rescue of ...

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is confident of proving his majority in the assembly Wednesday after dumping the BJP as an ally, party...

NEW DELHI:  Days after he played a key role in stopping a sulking L.K. Advani from quitting key BJP posts, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is to meet the senior leader here Wednesday. The meeting comes as the Bharatiya Janata Party faces turmoil, with key al...

PATNA:  Nearly half-a-dozen people were injured here in a clash, several trains were stopped and roads were blocked Tuesday when the BJP began ...

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who was stuck in Kinnaur district for the past three days since the area was cut off d...

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 by changing the norms relating to its funding pattern and granting property rights to make it more effective. The government had launched...

PATNA: Architects building the Nalanda International University at the ancient seat of learning in Bihar have decided to use the desiccant enhanced ...

TOKYO: A Japanese company has developed a synthetic protein based on spider silk and plans to use it to mass-produce a highly resistant and flexi...

NEW DELHI: Having established itself as the backroom office for global businesses with a flourishing outsourcing industry, India is taking steps to expand its electronics manufacturing base to avoid imports, arrest dollar outflows and add jobs, a top official has said. "We are ...

NAIROBI: India, which has a thriving diaspora in Kenya estimated at 100,000, became the East African nation's biggest trading partner in Asia i...

AGRA: Ending years of uncertainty, union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has cleared a civil aviation terminal at the Kheria Air Force Base in th...

WASHINGTON: Indian-American legal luminary Sri Srinivasan was today sworn in as a judge in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the second most powerful court in the United States after the Supreme Court. With this, Chandigarh-born 46-year-old Srinivasan has become the first Ind...

LONDON: Indian-born Amol Rajan has been appointed editor of the London morning daily The Independent, making him Fleet Street's first non-white edit...

CHENNAI/COLOMBO: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India was working towards finding the rightful place for all communities in Sri Lanka. ...

NEVADA: Hindus are upset with British actor Henry Cavill, who plays Superman  in currently running superhero film “Man of Steel”, for reportedly comparing ‘Superman’ with Hindu gods. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on Tuesday, said that comparin...

DUBAI: Indian man, who had fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after allegedly killing his wife, has handed himself over to police in Dubai. The ...

WASHINGTON: India must make employment a key driver of its growth strategy as higher economic growth by itself does not create more jobs, accor...

AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH: Punjabi actress Neeru Bajwa, in a written letter, has apologized to Sikh clergy for getting a Gurbani verse tattooed on her arm and hurting Sikh sentiments. Her right arm shows hymn “Jao tao prem khelan ka chao, sir dhar tali gali meri aao”. The clergy had...

MUMBAI:Locked away with hardened criminals, Suraj Pancholi seems to be coping well with his condition, according to his sister who met him at the Ar...

MUMBAI:A police officer has termed as "media speculation" that late actress Jiah Khan's six-page letter does not match her handwriting, saying that ...

MUMBAI:Dusky beauty Deepika Padukone is happy that she got to relive the classic "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (DDLJ) moment of chasing a train with superstar Shah Rukh Khan in her forthcoming release "Chennai Express". Deepika will be seen catching a train a la Kajol in the 1995 blo...

MUMBAI: What is Amitabh Bachchan concerned about? The ailing elephant Bijlee. He has appealed to animal lovers to rescue the tusker who had collapse...

NEW DELHI:At 60, Rishi Kapoor left Hollywood action directors Tom Struthers and John Street of "Inception" and "The Dark Knight Rises" fame, stunned...