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...

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Newly-appointed Minister of State for Health Santosh Chaudhary Tuesday said she will try and fulfil the government's plans for...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress has warned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of the nefarious anti-minority designs of the BJP under Narendra Mo...

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 ...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday asked the Congress to stop communalizing the issue of Sikh memorials in New Delhi and Amritsar through t...

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...

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...

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...

PATNA: Architects building the Nalanda International University at the ancient seat of learning in Bihar have decided to use the desiccant enhanced ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...