By Abhijit Prashar- CHANDIGARH: Even as thousands of Punjabi pilgrims, including cricketer Harbhajan Singh, are stuck in Uttarakhand following widespread floods and landslides in the hilly state, yet the Badals continue to holiday in London.  Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal i...

HOSHIARPUR: A 95-year-old inmate was allegedly attacked on Monday night by few prisoners in a Hoshiarpur jail. He is currently serving a jail senten...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has hired a private Helicopter to airlift the pilgrims stuck at Sri Hemkunt Sahib and its surrounding areas. Di...

LAHORE/CHANDIGARH: A Pakistani judicial commission conducting probe into the brutal murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail has recorded statements of 38 witnesses. Sarabjit, a death-row convict hailing from Bhikhiwind village of Tarn Taran district su...

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

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 Ar...

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...

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...

NEW DELHI: Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was "dismayed" by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Co...

SINGAPORE:  The organisational elections of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) will be held within this year as against the party's earlier de...

MUMBAI: Subhash S. Ediga's first birthday last month was bereft of any lavish celebrations in Metuchen, New Jersey. Instead, the $4,000 (Rs.232,000)...

SINGAPORE: Ravi Kumar, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology -Madras (IIT-M), has been appointed dean of the Nanyang Business School (NBS) in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), it was announced Tuesday. In a press release issued by the university, Kum...

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 mo...

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 ...

MUMBAI:Sonakshi Sinha says her father, veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha is very happy with the promotional trailer of her forthcoming film "Lootera", and that he is eager to watch the movie. "He (dad) is very happy. The promo of 'Lootera' first came on internet, till that time it was n...

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:Tusshar Kapoor has tried his hand at a different type of comedy with "Bajatey Raho" and says the film's team worked really hard on the script...

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 be seen in her forthcoming film "Raanjhanaa", says she considers it a big achievement that she has escaped being typecast in the film ind...

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...

MUMBAI:Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee is set to close the August 23-27 winter-festive edition of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) as the grand finale des...