Dehra Dun : It is official now, for not only the Opposition is talking of the rampant corruption prevalent in Uttarakhand, but even vidhan sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal, who belongs to the ruling Congress party, has openly voiced his concern saying that political, social and official corruption had become [...]

Dehra Dun: In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital. While [...]

Dharamsala: The BCCI will take strongest possible steps against the cricketers found engaged in business of match fixing. Giving detailed information about this the Joint Secretary of the BCCI Anuraag Thakur said, “We have already suspended the three players arrested by Delhi Police a day before we are waiting for the [...]

New Delhi: A Delhi court today granted bail to suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital. Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Judge I.S. Mehta granted bail to Shah on a personal bond of Rs.20,000 with a surety of [...]

Chandigarh: A top Congress leader displaying the manifesto of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab may appear odd, but that’s exactly what is happening in Punjab these days. Newly-appointed Punjab state Congress president Pratap Singh Bajwa carries a copy of the Akali Dal election manifesto everywhere he visits as [...]

Washington: Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan has moved a step closer to making history as the first South Asian judge on the US Court of Appeals for the American capital. Srinivasan, 46, who in August last year was named principal deputy solicitor general of the US, succeeding another Indian [...]

Dharamsala: Kings XI Punjab kept their faint hopes of making the play-offs alive by beating Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League here today. Contributions from skipper Adam Gilchrist (42), Shaun Marsh (45) and David Miller (44 not out) ensured Punjab post 171 for four. The bowlers were able to restrict [...]

New Delhi/ Mumbai: Pakistani links and the involvement of the Mumbai underworld have surfaced in the investigations into spot-fixing in Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in which Indian fast bowler S. Sreesanth and two of his Rajasthan Royals teammates have been arrested, police said today, adding more arrests are expected. [...]

New Delhi: Signalling apossible realignment of his party’s alliance in Haryana, BJP president Rajnath Singh today met INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital here, party sources said. They said Rajnath Singh, accompanied by party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, met Chautala at the Ram Manohar Hospital here. The [...]

Shimla: Tearing into the duplicity of Congress party over curtailing cement industry, opposition BJP lashed out saying that when the government had decided to allow new plants then why it did state in the Vidhan Sabha that no new cement unit would be permitted in Himachal Pradesh. Pointing out the [...]