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......

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......

Punjab polls: Former Army chief JJ Singh joins BJP

Ahead of the Punjab assembly polls, former Army chief Gen Joginder Jaswant Singh on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chandigarh in the presence of the party leadership, including Union......

Mann to take oath as Punjab CM today, only AAP leaders to attend

Aam Admi Party's Punjab face Bhagwant Mann is all set to be sworn in state's chief minister at 11.30 am at Khatkar Kalan, Bhagat Singh's ancestral village, in the presence of the party convenor......

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,......

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......

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......

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Vijender to return Khel Ratna if farms laws not withdrawn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,......

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......

Sidhu, Sikdar, Jindal triumph

Former Test opener Navjot Singh Sidhu, Asian Games gold medallist athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar and South Asian Federation Games silver medallist skeet shooter Naveen Jindal will be making their debut......