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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...
SHIMLA/ CHANDIGARH: The country's largest hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh remained shut for the fourth consecutive day Wednesday following a hi...
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has hired a private Helicopter to airlift the pilgrims stuck at Sri Hemkunt Sahib and its surrounding areas. Di...
HOSHIARPUR: Dal Khalsa has asked the Home Secretary, Punjab to order the release of 95-year-old prisoner Assa Singh on parole as his condition is reported to be very serious. Notably, Assa Singh is currently serving a jail sentence of 10 years in infamous 1987 robbery of Rs 5.7...
LAHORE/CHANDIGARH: A Pakistani judicial commission conducting probe into the brutal murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhp...
By Abhijit Prashar-NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Death-row convict Davinderpal Singh Bhullar appears to have won another reprieve following a reported decisi...
NEW DELHI: Over 62,000 pilgrims and tourists are still stranded in calamity-hit Uttarakhand while 11,000 have been rescued. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are to undertake an aerial survey of the extensive damage. The toll in the havoc caused by ...
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 pre...
NEW DELHI: A meeting between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran L.K. Advani was cal...
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court Wednesday refused to order a CBI probe into the Saradha Group chit fund scam, but did not dispose of the matter "in the interest of justice". Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Justice A.K. Banerjee and Justice M.K. ...
KEDARNATH: The heavy rain in Uttarakhand also resulted in washing away compound of Hindu shrine, Kedarnath, though the temple was not damaged s...
NEW DELHI: The muddy, swirling waters of the Yamuna river were flowing over the danger mark Wednesday, leading to the closure of the city's 145...
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...
WELLINGTON: Two men accused of murdering an Indian-origin man in New Zealand in January have pleaded not guilty and are now headed for trial.Bryne Pel...
SYDNEY: Police in Australia charged a man Wednesday in connection with a vicious gang attack on the owner of an Indian restaurant earlier this ...
LUDHIANA: Ludhiana District Congress Committee president Pawan Dewan today said that the Punjabis interested in immigration to Canada must always adopt the legal route.Dewan, who returned from his two week to US and Canada, today said, that he was told by the Conservative MP from Don Va...
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...
MUMBAI:Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who is presenting "Ship Of Theseus", says it would not have been wise to let her filmmaker-actor husband Aamir Khan present the film as he would have managed to pull a crowd, but the film can't take a wide audience. Rao is releasing director Anand Gandhi's...
MUMBAI:Popular stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma, who has turned producer with "Comedy Nights with Kapil", considers his 12-year theatre experience, wh...
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...
LOS ANGELES: “Hangover” star Bradley Cooper has been voted 'the man with the sexiest hair' in a survey carried out by hair brand Fudge. He has beaten Canadian actor Ryan Gosling and footballer David Beckham to secure the top position, reports contactmusic.com. The 38-year-old s...
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: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...
