Charanjeet Singh Brar quit the People’s Party of Punjab. Brar resigned from the post of special duties and from the membership of the party. Brar said he was compelled to take this step as Manpreet Singh Badal had made certain changes in the party constitution, including that on the age of politicians. He also alleged [...]
Rahul Dravid cracked his second consecutive century before Stuart Broad’s hat-trick triggered a dramatic collapse to restrict India’s lead to 67 runs on the second day of the second cricket Test against England here today. The veteran Dravid (117) notched up his 34th century to equaled Sunil Gavaskar’s record but India lost six wickets for [...]
Eleven people were killed and 48 injured when a bus in which they were travelling plunged into a stream in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district today. The bus, heading towards tourist resort Pahalgam from Bijbehara, skidded off the road and rolled down into the stream at Langanbal, 80-km from here, officials said. Four people died instantly [...]
With elections for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) a month away, core committee of ruling Shiromani Akali Dal today unanimously authorised party president Sukhbir Singh Badal and patron Parkash Singh Badal to select candidates. The decision was taken at a meeting of the core committee held here this evening which was presided over by [...]
Farmers in Noida today agreed to suspend their agitation against land acquisition for three months after claiming that authorities have accepted their demands, including giving them developed plot, After talks with Noida authorities, the farmers, on their part, assured that building development activities would not be stopped, said Noida Chairman and CEO Balwinder Kumar. Emerging [...]
Ending three days of suspense, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today sent his resignation to BJP President Nitin Gadkari and expressed his “full support” to the party. Yeddyurappa, who was asked by the Central leadership to quit after the state Lokayukta indicted him in mining issue, faxed the letter to Gadkari who accepted it, [...]
A packed Caribbean Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway as it landed in Guyana at night yesterday, then broke in two at the edge of a ravine. There were no casualties. The Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway and burst through a perimeter fence after arriving at Georgetown’s Cheddi Jagan airport just past midnight from [...]
Officials of Haryana Police Department would be imparted training to deal with the incidents of terrorism, Home Minister Gopal Kanda said. The intelligence wing of the police department would also be strengthened to control such incidents. Kanda in a release issued here said the officers would also be given training on how to deal with [...]
Exercising the right to franchise was super most duty of all citizens to strengthen the vibrant democracy of a country, Himachal Pradesh Chief Justice Kurian Joseph has said. Mr Kurian also expressed concern that only half of the voters of the country cast their vote in elections. He was addressing the Public Colloquium on Fundamental [...]
A local court today sent Punjab woman DSP Raka Gira to a two-day police remand in Arms act. The DSP was arrested by the CBI for taking one lakh rupees as bribe from a builder in Mullanpur from her house in sector 15 in Chandigarh on July 24. After the incident, CBI’s anti-corruption branch personnel [...]
