Sukhbir Badal ordered to clean shoes at Golden Temple

Pronouncing 'tankhah' (religious punishment) for Sukhbir Singh Badal and other leaders for the 'mistakes' committed by the Shiromani Akali Dal government in Punjab from 2007 to 2017, the Sikh......

NDA stands for 'New India Development Aspiration': Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the new opposition front on Tuesday, saying alliances built on negativity have never succeeded and asserting that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will......

Why BJP And SAD Need Each Other For 2024

For Sikhs, they say, honour is the bottom line; and whatever the state of the SAD's political fortunes today, arrogance will not be helpful in the negotiation, points out Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE:......

Ex-Punjab CM Amarinder Singh to join BJP next week

Former chief minister and Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh will join the Bharatiya Janata Party next week, a party spokesperson said on Friday. Singh will also merge his newly formed......

Foodgrain production pegged at 220 mn tonnes

There is adequate food stocks in the country despite a 37 million tonnes shortfall in achieving the foodgrain production target of 220 million tonnes last year, the Rajya Sabha was informed on......

India eyes global role in speciality chemicals

India could emerge as a global player in the speciality chemicals sector, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa said in New Delhi on Wednesday. "Like information technology,......

The strange case of privatising Paradeep Phosphate

Imagine the controlling interest in a fertilizer corporation in which public funds in excess of Rs 670 crore (Rs 6.7 billion) have been invested being sold to a private company for barely Rs 15......

CII Partnership Summit in Hyderabad from Jan 5

The ninth Partnership Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry will be held in Hyderabad from January 5 to 8 with the theme of'Networking Business: Linking Nations.'To be inaugurated by the......

SEE: AAP picks Harbhajan Singh for Rajya Sabha

Photograph: Kind courtesy Harbhajan Singh/Twitter The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday nominated former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, IIT Delhi faculty Sandeep Pathak,......

Vijender to return Khel Ratna if farms laws not withdrawn

IMAGE: Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh joined the farmers' agitation at the Haryana-Delhi border on Sunday. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh,......

Calls grow for Kalmadi, Chautala's ouster from IOA

Former Sports Minister Ajay Maken termed IOA's decision 'sad and painful', and urged the ministry to take act against the move. CWG scam-accused Suresh Kalmadi appointed Life President of IOA A......

IOA, NSF officials meet PM to discuss tenure issue

Miffed by the Sports Ministry's new regulations limiting their tenures, IOA chief Suresh Kalmadi and National Sports Federations' officials on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New......

Sports chiefs want unlimited tenure: Gill

Sports Minister MS Gill on Tuesday said the new regulation that seeks to limit the tenure of sports administrators has the backing of all political parties and is in fact a softer version of the......