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...
PUNJAB
Will try to fulfil UPA's health sector plan: Chaudhary
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Newly-appointed Minister of State for Health Santosh Chaudhary Tuesday said she will try and fulfil the government's plans for...
Cong warns Badal of nefarious anti-minority designs of BJP under Mod...
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress has warned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of the nefarious anti-minority designs of the BJP under Narendra Mo...
95-yr-old convicted in '87 bank rob...
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 sentence of 10 years in infamous 1987 roobery of Rs 5.70 crore at PNB Dholewal Chowk Branch in Ludhiana. However, the jail authorites claimed ...
SAD asks Congress to stop communalizing issue of Sikh memorials
CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday asked the Congress to stop communalizing the issue of Sikh memorials in New Delhi and Amritsar through t...
Over 650 popular drugs set to be up to 50 per cent cheaper from July...
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...
BJP to sit in Bihar opposition
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...
NATIONAL
Mamata sends ministers on rescue mission to Uttarakhand
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday that two state ministers will be sent to Uttarakhand to oversee the rescue of ...
Ahead of vote, Nitish confident of proving majority
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is confident of proving his majority in the assembly Wednesday after dumping the BJP as an ally, party...
RSS chief to meet Advani
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...
Half-a-dozen hurt as BJP imposes Bihar shutdown
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 ...
Himachal CM, dozen tourists airlifted
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...
Slum removal scheme tweaked to make...
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...
FEATURED
Unique, green air-cooling system for Nalanda University
PATNA: Architects building the Nalanda International University at the ancient seat of learning in Bihar have decided to use the desiccant enhanced ...
Japanese firm to mass-produce synthetic spider silk
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...
India eyeing $400-bn electronics ba...
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 ...
India becomes Kenya's largest Asian trading partner
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...
Decks cleared for civil terminal in Taj city Agra
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...
PM conveys dismay over Sri Lanka mo...
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...
NRIs
Malaysian Indian Congress party polls this year
SINGAPORE: The organisational elections of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) will be held within this year as against the party's earlier de...
Indian fugitive hands himself over to Dubai police
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 ...
IIT-ian becomes dean of top Singapo...
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...
Hindus upset with Cavill comparing 'Superman' with Hindu gods ...
NEVADA: Hindus are upset with British actor Henry Cavill, who plays Superman in currently running superhero film “Man of Steel”, for repor...
Chandigarh-born Srinivasan sworn in as top US court judge
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...
Dad Shatrughan eager to watch Sonak...
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...
ENTERTAINMENT
Kourtney's motherhood tips to Kim
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...
'Bajatey Raho' was re-written many times: Tusshar Kapoor
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...
My biggest achievement is not getti...
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...
With 'Meri Bhabhi', Esha Kansara wants to break past image
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...
Sabyasachi Mukherjee named LFW grand finale designer
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...














