By K S Chawla-CHANDIGARH: The Congress President Sonia Gandhi has rightfully recognized the political potential of Amarinder Singh former Chief Minister of Punjab and inducted him as permanent invitee to the highest policy making body of the congress working committee and thus accorded ...

By K S Chawla-CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal may be the next convener of the NDA after Sharad Yadav, President, Janata Dal (Un...

By Abhijit Prashar- KALANAUR (YAMUNANAGAR): As many as 700 passengers aboard the Chandigarh-Chennai Super Fast Express found themselves stranded wit...

By Harcharan Bains-It’s the funny nature of history that the more we try to force a manufactured closure on its traumatic aspects, the more forcefully they keep coming back. Right now, we are in the midst of this ideological and political see-saw on Operation Bluestar. There is absolu...

By K S Chawla-LUDHIANA: The sudden transfer of Ishwar Singh, Commissioner of Police Ludhiana has sent shockwave among the Ludhianvis. Ishwar Singh ha...

GURDASPUR: With monsoons making it early to Punjab this year, once again foodgrains are set to rot because of lack of proper and adequate stora...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday expressed his readiness to make way for Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and hoped he would be the leader of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the future.Speaking to reporters after the swearing-in of eight new ministers at Ra...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday questioned "yet another" cabinet reshuffle of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governm...

PATNA: It is difficult to work with Bharatiya Janata Party's new era leaders, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Monday, a day after his Ja...

NEW DELHI: The telecom regulator Monday reduced national roaming calls and SMS tariff ceilings from next month and said it would allow telecom service providers to offer national mobile roaming to subscribers for a fixed fee from the same date.However, GSM operators sounded their strong di...

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's belated bid to soothe the family of a murdered gang-rape victim in North 24 Parganas Monday turn...

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday kept key policy rates, including cash reserve ratio and repo rate unchanged, saying the weakness in r...

NEW DELHI: Lathi-charge, the familiar term for mob managment by police forces in India, is set to become history. Delhi Police will be doing away with its colonial-era bamboo lathis (staves) for a lighter and easier to wield plastic baton that will "hurt less" when it comes in con...

NEW DELHI:A woman who filed a negligence complaint against St. Stephen's Hospital here for a botched up sterilisation has been shown the door by the...

NEW DELHI:Meenu Nageshwaran, 53, felt she had been handed a life sentence when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012. What followed was nev...

LUCKNOW: Policemen in Uttar Pradesh are under attack. Literally! Amid spiralling crime, policemen now face threats of assault. More than a dozen policemen have been attacked in the last one year in the state while half a dozen have been shot dead by criminals. The dead include a depu...

SAWAI MADHOPUR (RAJASTHAN): Miles away from their classrooms, playstations and social networking sites, a group of teenaged students from eight...

GUWAHATI:It's a region that has produced acclaimed directors like Jahnu Barua and Utpal Borpujari, singers like Bhupen Hazarika and actors like Dann...

BRAMPTON (ON): Brampton Member of Parliament Parm Gill issued a statement applauding the decision by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to extend the exemption granted to hijabs and other religious head coverings under to Law 4 of the Laws of the Game to tur...

For seven utterly terrifying years, I lived with a woman who had planned and executed a cold-blooded murder. She was my mother-in-law — and I fear...

OTTAWA (CANADA): District Congress Committee, Ludhiana (Urban) Pawan Dewan has the Punjab Government must resolve the pending issues of NRIs, so tha...

POINTE-À-PITRE (GUADELOUPE): From nature lovers to history buffs to those who wish to get away 'far from the madding crowd', picturesque Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean with a large Indian immigrant population has it all. Discovered by Christopher Columbus during his second voyag...

HYDERABAD: A software engineer has lodged a dowry harassment case against her NRI husband at Banjara Hills on Friday.  Banjara Hills police s...

DUBAI: An Indian man, who was accused of raping a six-year-old schoolboy in Bahrain, has been acquitted by a court there for lack of evidence. Pr...

NEW DELHI:Yash Raj Films (YRF) has settled for a quirky title for its project starring actors Sushant Singh Rajput and Parineeti Chopra. The movie, directed by Maneesh Sharma, is titled "Shuddh Desi Romance". The movie will be a "fresh and very real love story about the hair-raising ...

MUMBAI:Actress Vidya Balan was set to promote her forthcoming film "Ghanchakkar" in a mall here Sunday, but she had to cancel the plan thanks to the...

CHENNAI:Southern actress Tamannaah Bhatia, known for films such as "Tadakha" and "Rachcha", has landed a role opposite superstar Mahesh Babu. They w...

MUMBAI:Actress Sonam Kapoor says she loved delivering catchy dialogues in her forthcoming film "Raanjhanaa". "The writer, Himanshu Sharma writes very catchy dialogues. The trailer tells you all about it and dare I say, the dialogues are very local in taste. I loved speaking them. Lik...

NEW DELHI:Sonali Bendre stays away from the big screen but she made an exception for Milan Luthria directed "Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara" (OU...

LOS ANGELES:Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl. This is her first child with her beau, rapper Kanye West. Tmz.com repor...