A serious attempt was made to destabilise Punjab’s power supply on Saturday by removing at least 1200 clippings from the rail tracks between Sarai Banjara and Rajpura thermal power plant. While two rakes carrying coal passed through the tracks this morning, luckily there was no untoward accident. This has been done on the day there […]
Union home minister Amit Shah will meet the family of Punjabi singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala, whose murder last week sent shockwaves across the country. He will meet the family at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Chandigarh or at a private hotel in Sector 35. The minister visited the city to inaugurate Khelo […]
Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday registered a big victory in the crucial by-polls held for the Champawat constituency seat. This was a must-win election for Dhami to keep his CM’s seat. He managed a huge margin of over 55,000 votes as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader defeated Congress’s Nirmala Gahtori. Speaking […]
External affairs minister S Jaishankar said India’s foreign policy is not sitting on the fence, just because its policy may not be agreeable to some other countries. “I am not sitting on the fence just because I don’t agree with you. It means I am sitting on my ground,” the foreign minister said taking part […]
Alleged gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in remand of Delhi Police, has reportedly confessed to having ordered the killing of Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu alias Sidhu Moosewala. Bishnoi has told investigators that his gang members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, hatched a conspiracy and killed Sidhu Moosewala, officials said on Friday.The confession in front of […]
Ex-Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel – set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of elections in prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state this year – performed a puja at his residence Thursday morning before his induction ceremony. Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed Patel participating in a small ceremony with two others. Other […]
The foreign ministers of India and Canada held a telephonic conversation on Wednesday ahead of a potential bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau this month. That meeting is yet to be finalised but, if it does occur, will be on the margins of either the Commonwealth Heads of […]
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday issued summons to interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul in connection with the alleged National Herald money laundering case. The central probe agency has summoned Sonia to join the investigation on June 8 in New Delhi, a case which was closed by the agency in 2015. The […]
Mansa SSP on Wednesday briefed the media for the first time on Punjab singer Sidhu Moosewala’s killing.Mansa SSP Gaurav Toora said the Bathinda IGP has constituted a SIT in Moosewala case. Moosewala was on Sunday killed by unknown men some distance away from his house at Musa village in Mansa. Meanwhile, Sidhu Moosewala’s bhog will be held […]
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram expressed concern over “no sign of promised” recovery after the National Statistical Officer (NSO) provisional estimates put India’s GDP growth for the last quarter of the financial year 2021-22 at 4.1%, 0.7 percentage points lower than the February projections. The former Union minister said that the “most striking graph” of […]