Patiala: The women’s national hockey camp for the FIH World League Round 3 (semi-final) started at the National Institute of Sports (NIS) here Sunday. The tournament will be held at Rotterdam, Netherlands June 13-23. The three-week-long training camp will continue until June 4 India qualified for the FIH World League [...]

Shimla: Just over a month after the Himachal Pradesh High Court directed the Shimla Municipal Corporation to ensure that the streets of this popular hill resort, once the summer capital of British India, are free of stray dogs, animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has stepped in. She has asked the [...]

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir state police and army troops in a joint operation unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition from a location close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in Poonch district yesterday evening. A defence spokesman in Jammu said the cache was a “war-like [...]

Rohtak (Haryana): Angry mobs clashed with the police and set two buses on fire during a violent protest against the opening of an ashram of a controversial godman near here Sunday, an official said. Some protestors were injured in the violence. The police had to resort to cane charge and [...]

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Sunday that Kashmiris should take a cue from the voters in Pakistan and ignore future election boycott calls in the state. Omar Abdullah posted a comment by Pakistan Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim on his micro blogging twitter site. [...]

Jammu: The Indian Army is training youth from a remote mountainous area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district for a mega recruitment rally beginning May 30, an official said today. A defence spokesman said that under its ongoing Operation Sadbhavna (Goodwill) the army has picked youth from militancy-affected areas of [...]

Chandigarh: Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be installed in all colleges in Haryana to ensure safety of women, a minister said here today. “With a view to ensure safety of women in Haryana and providing a deterrent to the ‘eve-teasers’, CCTV cameras would be installed at strategic points in all [...]

Dharamsala: A four-member French Senate delegation led by Senator Jean-Francois Humbert, President of the Tibet Group, pledged their continued support to the Tibet issue. Addressing a press conference at the Department of information and International Relations of Tibetan Government in Exile, Humbert said, “we condemn the cultural genocide that is [...]

Shimla: A period of a month has passed away but still Himachal University has failed to take any decision on the problem that BCA III students are facing. Students had reported that there were a number of questions in BCA III Math exam held on 12th April which were not [...]

Chandigarh: Rain preceded by a storm gave respite to residents of Chandigarh and surrounding areas Saturday afternoon from the scorching heat of the last one week. Scores of trees were uprooted and their branches were strewn along major roads in Chandigarh following a storm that lashed most parts of the city. [...]