Separatist shutdown affects life in Srinagar
bySrinagar: Life across Srinagar and other towns of Kashmir Valley has been affected today by a shutdown called by hardline senior separatist leader Syed…
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Badal largesse at Punjab exchequer expense appoints 21 CPS
byChandigarh: Setting a record of sorts, there will be 21 chief parliamentary secretaries in Punjab’s Parkash Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Poll defeat, knives out in Punjab Congress
byChandigarh: It has lost but it is still fighting. Ironical as it may sound, that is the state of affairs in the Punjab Congress…
430 acres under contraband opium cultivation in Uttarakhand
byDehradun : Fears have been expressed by the Narcotics control Bureau that opium produced from clandestinely grown poppy plants in the state was either…
Unplanned growth mars Uttarakhand development
byDehradun : The latest report of the Uttarakhand census department only confirms the worst of fears. The green spaces are being taken over by…
Himachal lawmakers set to hike their own salaries
byShimla: Himachal legislators are set to hike their own salaries today as four bills introduced in the Vidhan Sabha yesterday sought to increase the…
Himachal asks center to bill BBMB arrears
byShimla: With Supreme Court having dismissed a review petition filed by Punjab and Haryana governments, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal laying claims to about…
Himachal introduces bill to empower Lokayukta
byShimla: With the intention of having a stronger ombudsman, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today introduced HP Lokayukta Bill, 2012 with powers to initiate…
Tibetan among US shooting victims
byWashington:A recent Tibetan immigrant from India, the latest identified victim of Monday’s shooting rampage at a small California university, worked for five years in…