AMRITSAR: India's commerce secretary Rahul Khullar said on Monday that he would meet his Pakistani counterpart with an “open mind", and hoped that trade relations between the neighbours improve. Khullar and Pakistan commerce secretary Zafur Mehmood are slated to meet in Islamabad on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss trade relations. "There is ...

SRINAGAR: The Sikh community of Kashmir on Monday criticised the chief minister Omar Abdullah for being "insensitive" to their demands for a fresh probe into the Chittisinghpora massacre, in which 35 members of the community were massacred by unidentified gunmen in March 2000. A Sikh organisation, the All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee headed ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Congress will hold a meeting on March 30 to decide its strategy and programmes for the current year. The meeting to be held at the party office here will be addressed by the newly­ appointed AICC general secretary (in-charge of party affairs in Haryana) and MP BK ...

JALANDHAR: Lok Bhalai Party president Balwant Singh Ramoowalia has said that he disapproved of the assertion by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar that he would take up with Barack Obama issues of US Sikhs during his visit to Harmandar Sahib. Ramoowalia said in his view, the issues, if any, can be ...