Chandigarh, Nov 22 (IANS) The health department here has directed the school and college authorities to compile data of students who took off from the educational institutions due to swine flu, an ...

New Delhi/Agartala, Nov 21 (IANS) Former Orissa chief minister Janaki Ballabh Patnaik was Saturday appointed the governor of Assam and Tripura governor Kamla, transferred to Gujarat for remaining period of her term. D.Y. ...

Ludhiana, Nov 21 (IANS) It was a big surprise for a businessman based in this Punjab city Saturday when he found packets of contraband mixed with a consignment of goods from New ...

Amritsar, Nov 20 (IANS) This is one "success" that has left the customs department in Amritsar sector embarrassed. Over 14 months after they seized fake currency from a woman coming from Pakistan, ...

London, Nov. 20 (ANI): Indian-origin Rajinder Singh, who blames Muslims for killing his father during the Partition of India in 1947, is set to become the first non-white member of the racist ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Three swine flu deaths, two from Rajasthan alone, were reported Thursday, taking the toll in India to 537, health authorities said here. Also, 118 new cases were recorded ...

Lucknow, Nov 18 (IANS) Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly central jail have come up with a new idea to reform criminals - cow service! Now prison inmates will have to regularly bathe, ...

Hey! It's last week in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Mega Challenge because from the next week, 4 winning states will be stepping towards the semi-finals followed by finals which will ...

Amritsar, Nov 16 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will arrive in this Punjab city Tuesday and visit the famed Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines. Harper will arrive here by a ...

Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Pakistani intelligence agencies have captured a top leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from a major city of Punjab after tracking him for a week. The leader who ...

Chandigarh, Nov 15 (IANS) Chandigarh Police Sunday claimed to have busted a gang of vehicle lifters, with the arrest of four men. Nearly a dozen cars and four motorcycles were recovered from ...

Viveck Vaswani's much awaited film Dulha Mil Gaya has acquired negative rights for an unrevealed amount. Morpheus Media Ventures recently inked the deal to get hold of the rights. Confirming the news ...

Chennai, Nov 13 (IANS) City-based engineering, procurement and construction company BGR Energy Systems Ltd has bagged three orders worth Rs.45 crore, taking its order book position to Rs.12,200 crore, the company said ...

Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) Overcast conditions and a fall in temperature Friday forced the residents of Chandigarh and neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana to take out their woollens. "Clouds are prevailing all ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Morpheus Media Ventures (MMV), a boutique media firm, has acquired half ownership rights to Shah Rukh Khan's forthcoming film "Dulha Mil Gaya". MMV has acquired 50 percent ...

By Vishal Gulati Nahan (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) Recovering from a knee surgery, popular World Wrestling Federation (WWF) wrestler The Great Khali can't do what he's best at right now. But injury ...

Abohar, Nov.12 (ANI): Having become known the world over as the epicentre and haven of terrorism, Pakistan is now projecting through the Punjabi Darbar programme that India has not been cooperating ...

Abohar (Punjab), Nov 12 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 15 injured Thursday when a tractor-trolley collided with a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing near Punjab's Abohar town. The ...

By Vishal Gulati Nahan (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) Recuperating from a knee surgery, popular World Wrestling Federation (WWF) wrestler The Great Khali can't do what he's best at right now. But injury ...

Ludhiana (Punjab), Nov 12 (IANS) Social activist and founder of Sulabh International sanitation movement Bindeshwar Pathak was Thursday awarded the Sat Paul Mittal National Award 2009 for services to humanity. Himachal Pradesh Chief ...

Chandigarh, Nov 11 (IANS) The daughter of an IAS officer, who committed suicide last year, has lodged a complaint of harassment against her husband and in-laws , police said Wednesday. According to the ...

Abohar, Nov.11 (ANI): Despite having initially blamed the Talibans and Lashkar-e-Toiba for causing trouble across its country, Radio Pakistan in its recent Punjabi Darbar programme has blamed India for carrying out ...

Lahore, Nov.10 (ANI): Despite the heightened extremist threat in the region and repeated appeals, authorities have failed to provide a proper security cover to the Punjab Emergency Services Academy (Rescue 1122), which ...

Patiala (Punjab), Nov 9 (IANS) Searches were conducted at various places in Punjab and Haryana to arrest the kingpin of a multi-million Rupee racket in the global online English proficiency test exposed ...

Chandigarh, Nov 8 (IANS) Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) leadership Sunday kept up the pressure to seek justice for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Eight people, including four women, were booked for taking a loan of Rs.2.5 crore (Rs.25 million) from a bank by providing fake documents, police said Saturday. "We have received ...

New Delhi, Nov. 7 (ANI): CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday asked the Union Government to withdraw the new ordinance, which requires the State Government to bear the expenses if ...

Bhopal, Nov 6 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Friday clarified that he had never said people of other states should not come to Madhya Pradesh, and stressed that all ...

Guwahati, Nov 6 (IANS) Assam captain and Mumbai discard Amol Muzumdar became the highest scorer in Ranji Trophy, surpassing Punjab's Amarjeet Kaypee, when he scored nine runs in the second innings against ...

Islamabad, Nov 6 (IANS) The string of recent terror strikes in the country has affected development work and hampered revenue generation for the government, a Pakistani official has said. The terror attacks ...