CHANDIGARH: The Centre has sought eight more weeks from the Armed Forces Tribunal to place on record the documents asked by Brig Surinder Singh (retd), the brigade commander in Kargil during the 1999 war. Surinder was sacked from the Army on May 29, 2001 for allegedly leaking documents to unauthorised people ...

SAS NAGAR: Tourism and cultural affairs minister Hira Singh Gabria on Wednesday announced to start a Panj Takht tourist train from Amritsar on January 1. Gabria, who was in SAS Nagar, said the train will cover all five Takhts, including Shri Anandpur Sahib in Rupnagar district, Damdama Sahib in Bathinda, Shri ...

CHANDIGARH: Union minister for civil aviation Praful Patel on Tuesday gave in-principle clearance to the direct Amritsar­ Toronto link with an Air India flight. This flight had been discontinued October 2010. During a meeting with the SAD-BJP delegation led by deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Delhi, the union minister also ...

ROKTAK: Gender-related violence has assumed universal contours. It is not a problem specific to India alone, but has taken international dimensions. Bonour killing is prevalent abroad, stated eminent sociologist from Sweden, Barn Bjorling, at a special lecture on 'Honour Related Violence in a Global Scenario at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) ...

ROHTAK: The residents of Badwasni village in Sonepat district blocked the Gohana-Sonepat road for over two hours on Wednesday in protest against the police taking a woman resident of the village in custody. According to reports, Priti, wife of a resident Ravinder, was whisked away by the CIA wing of ...

CHANDIGARH: Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in pressing upon the Ministry of Civil Aviation not to cancel Air India's Amritsar­ London-Toronto direct flight. In separate letters to the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson, Bajwa has ...

FARIDKOT: Sleuths from the Income Tax Department raided the business premises of Malhotra Group of Industries at Faridkot, Ferozepur and Delhi, reportedly in connection with alleged bungling of funds in the Commonwealth Games contracts. Well known in the region for virtual monopoly over the liquor trade, the owners of the ...

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday urged the banks to charge only 4 per cent interest rate for agriculture advances and for loans raised by Self­ Help Groups in the state. The Chief Minister made the plea in a meeting with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subarao ...

LUDHIANA: In view of security concerns during, the Commonwealth Games, the Railways stopped transporting goods towards Delhi Monday onwards, raising fears of disrupted delivery schedules for the business community in North India, especially this industrial city. The suspension of freight will be for a week, but the period coincides with the ...

CHANDIGARH: Among the Bills passed by the state Assembly recently was one intended to tighten the screws on travel agents and their malpractices, including organised human smuggling. The law to regulate the emigration business has been named the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act, 2010. It was passed in the Assembly ...

CHANDIGARH: The Khamano Municipal Committee is virtually headless and non-functional with its councilors moving from pillar to post for the removal of their president despite a no­ trust move against him for over eight months now. It was on December 18, 2009 that these eight aggrieved councillors in the House of ...

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana MLA and Meo leader Zakir Hussain on Wednesday expressed apprehension that the Muslim community in Haryana could be targeted by miscreants after Allahabad High Court delivers its verdict on Ayodhya title suits on Thursday. In a letter to Gurgaon Commissioner of Police, Hussain has sought adequate security ...

JALANDHAR: A city police on Tuesday detained a local businessman for sending cops on a wild goose chase by claiming that unidentified men threw chilli powder into his eyes and looted over 1 kg gold and Rs 40,000 cash he had withdrawn from a bank. He chose the entry point of ...