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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh delivers lecture on 70th Anniversary of our Independence-Strengthening the Roots of our Democracy during the Ist Prof. S.B. Rangnekar Memorial Oration at Punjab University in Chandigarh on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Widespread worry over poll system undermining by money, muscle power:...

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh stressed on the need to effect electoral reforms to check the menace.

11 April 2018 8:53 PM IST

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh delivers lecture on 70th Anniversary of our Independence-Strengthening the Roots of our Democracy during the Ist Prof. S.B. Rangnekar Memorial Oration at Punjab University in Chandigarh on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Atrocities against minorities, Dalits rising in country: Manmohan...

Manmohan Singh said atrocities against minorities, Dalits, if unchecked, could harm democracy.

11 April 2018 7:41 PM IST

Today several are forced to either run with few students on their rolls or close down while the private schools thrive as parents make a beeline for admissions to them despite their steep fee.

Are your parents in 'unclean occupation', Haryana admission form asks...

Commenting on the development, the opposition Congress said the BJP-led state government was indulging in 'racial and...

11 April 2018 9:30 AM IST

Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat. (Photo: Pexels)

RBI clears CCL for purchase of wheat

Central government has fixed the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat at Rs 1,735 per quintal.

11 April 2018 8:50 AM IST

In a complaint filed on Friday, the karate champion said she boarded an auto-rickshaw after her karate class to go home when the traffic constable, who was in uniform, boarded the same vehicle and sat next to her. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

National level karate champion beats up Haryana cop over sexual...

Traffic police cop has been arrested and suspended for sexually harassing 21-yr-old national-level woman karate player...

7 April 2018 2:40 PM IST

Mintoo was arrested by Punjab Police from Delhis IGI airport on November 2014 while he was on his way back from Thailand. (Photo: Twitter)

Punjab: Four ISI-trained men held for planning to disrupt IPL matches

The men were allegedly trained by an ISI agent through social media to disturb communal harmony.

5 April 2018 11:40 AM IST

Earlier on March 23, the Punjab government launched a program named Drug Awareness Prevention Officers under which 35,000 designated officers took an oath to eradicate the drug problem from the state. (Photo: Pixabay)

Punjab govt sets up committee to keep check on songs promoting drug...

The committee is tasked to identify instances of glorification of drug abuse, violence and depiction of any obscene...

31 March 2018 5:28 PM IST

Harjit Masih however, managed to return to India after giving a slip to the ISIS militants suffering gun wound. (Photo: ANI)

Indians made to kneel down, shot dead in front of me, says escaped...

Giving details of the incident, Masih said that Indians were working at a factory in Iraq in 2014.

21 March 2018 1:19 PM IST

External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had told Parliament on Tuesday that all 39 Indians, abducted by the ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies were recovered. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Anger boils over as kin get informed on TV about Indian hostages'...

Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government...

20 March 2018 6:48 PM IST

A special court in Chandigarh on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to Jagtar Singh Tara in connection with assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. (Photo: PTI | File)

Jagtar Singh Tara awarded life imprisonment in Beant Singh...

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000.

17 March 2018 8:57 PM IST

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (Photo: File)

After Kejriwal's apology, Punjab's Lok Insaf Party snaps ties with AAP

Earlier on Friday, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann resigned as the AAP's Punjab chief protesting the apology.

17 March 2018 9:10 AM IST

In his twitter, AAP Punjab co-president Aman Arora said he has resigned from the post due to painful turn of events since Thursday. (Photo: Twitter/@AroraAmanSunam)

Kejriwal apology row: After Mann, AAP's Punjab co-president resigns...

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had apologised for levelling charges of involvement in drugs trade against ex-Punjab min Bikram...

16 March 2018 5:29 PM IST