Alok Sharma, an Indian-origin former UK minister, has been knighted for his contribution to combatting climate change through his leadership at the COP26 summit by King Charles III in his first New......
A special court in Chandigarh, which was to announce the quantum of punishment to six convicts in the 1995 assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, deferred it to Monday when......
A young woman said to be a follower of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect immolated herself at her house in a village near Bathinda on Friday, allegedly as she was upset due to the Dera-Sikh row. Prabhjit......
Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader, Rasheed Masood, was sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court in a corruption case on Tuesday, becoming the first MP to lose his seat after a recent......
Unidentified persons hurled stones at a Gurudwara in Kuala Lumpur, damaging a front window of the building, adding to religious tensions over a series of attacks on churches in this Muslim-majority......
Government has nominated Financial Services Secretary Hasmukh Adhia as a director on the central board of directors of the Reserve Bank of India. His nomination is effective from November 11, 2014,......
Economic Affairs Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi was designated as Finance Secretary. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved that Mehrishi, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre,......
As part of the strategy to contain bad debts, the Finance Ministry has directed all public sector banks to accord top priority to cases of fraud and wilful default and take legal action against......
In first major Secretary-level shuffle by the Narendra Modi-government, Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram has been transferred out of the Finance Ministry to a low profile Tourism Ministry. Mayaram,......
"I want to make intelligent Punjabi cinema," says debutant director Gurvinder Singh, and proves it with Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan. On a cold morning in Bathinda, Punjab, an old man wakes up to make......