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By Abhijit Prashar-MOHALI/CHANDIGARH: Well-known Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Mann has been playing truant ever since he was appointed Chairman of Mohali district planning board last year. While developmental projects worth lakhs of rupees await his clearance, he has been...
CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday asked the Congress to stop communalizing the issue of Sikh memorials in New Delhi and Amritsar through t...
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress has expressed serious concern over rising graph of crime against women and children belying tall claims by SAD-BJP gover...
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress has warned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of the nefarious anti-minority designs of the BJP under Narendra Modi. Party spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira has urged Akali Dal to take a cue from JD(U) to protect the interests of the minorities incl...
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...
CHANDIGARH: Heavy rainfall has alarmingly increased the water level in Himachal Pradesh's Pong and Bhakra dams, officials said Tuesday. The monsoon ...
KEDARNATH: The heavy rain in Uttarakhand also resulted in washing away compound of Hindu shrine, Kedarnath, though the temple was not damaged stated the temple authorities. About 500 people, including several pilgrims are said to missing in the area, according to top government sou...
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...
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is confident of proving his majority in the assembly Wednesday after dumping the BJP as an ally, party leaders said Tuesday. Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leaders said Nitish Kumar was "calm and cool" and spent the day in office Tuesday, not w...
LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday criticised the Akhilesh Yadav government and accused it of indulging in communal and appease...
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday that two state ministers will be sent to Uttarakhand to oversee the rescue of ...
AGRA: Ending years of uncertainty, union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has cleared a civil aviation terminal at the Kheria Air Force Base in this Taj city, raising hopes of increased tourist traffic, a senior tourism industry official said. Once it is functional, passengers will n...
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 aw...
LUCKNOW: Policemen in Uttar Pradesh are under attack. Literally! Amid spiralling crime, policemen now face threats of assault. More than a dozen ...
NAIROBI: India, which has a thriving diaspora in Kenya estimated at 100,000, became the East African nation's biggest trading partner in Asia in 2012, surpassing China, a government document says. India exported to Kenya goods worth $240 million, way ahead of Asia's biggest eco...
WASHINGTON: Siding with the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court has tossed out a provision in an Arizona state law requiring proof of citizen...
TEHRAN: Iran's president-elect Hassan Rouhani has said his country would try to be more " transparent" in its nuclear issue to "build confiden...
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...
