Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, who is also working president of the ruling National Conference, has directed ministers of his party to be available at NC headquarters to attend to public issues.
A Personal Security Officer(PSO) of Janata Dal (Secular) state president allegedly opened fire inside his house, triggering panic in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
The Sikh clergy here on Wednesday failed to resolve the controversy over militant preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s name inscribed on the Operation Bluestar memorial and the signboard in the ‘parkarma’ of the Golden Temple complex.
Countering the Punjab government's stand in the high court that village houses were not numbered, the state Congress president has pointed out the evidence of it in the delimitation notification in six blocks of Fatehgarh Sahib district.
Even as Dharamsala - a small hill town nestled in picturesque Kangra valley with mighty Dhauladhar in the backdrop - is gearing up to host two Indian domestic league matches, the usual festivities around the event in preceding year is missing this time.
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday announced to waive 2% market fee, 3% rural development fund (RDF) cess and 3% Punjab infrastructure development fund (PIDF) cess on basmati rice production in Punjab.
Sarabdyal Singh, former personal assistant of Punjab animal husbandry minister Gulzar Singh Ranike and key accused in the border area development programme (BADP) fund scam in Amritsar's Attari constituency, approached the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday, seeking bail.
Actor Sanjay Dutt will finally surrender before a court tomorrow, after a TADA court today granted his plea seeking permission for giving himself up in an anti-terror court in Mumbai instead of Pune's Yerawada jail.
Congress-turned-Akali leader Mangat Rai Bansal, who was sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment in a paddy embezzlement case last month by the special CBI court, Patiala, moved the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday, challenging the trial court's order.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender before a special TADA court in Mumbai today to serve the remaining three and a half years of a five-year sentence under the Arms Act.
HT reports.
In a major relief to film actor Salman Khan, Rajasthan high court today rejected the revision petition filed by the state government against him in the 14-year-old blackbuck poaching case.
The disputed Satlok Ashram was today locked after nearly 3,000 followers of self-styled godman Rampal vacated the site in Karontha village, but protestors refused to lift dharna demanding that it be demolished.
Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday convened a high-level meeting to expedite and implement the Rakhi-i-Arth project for early settlement of Dal dwellers.
The Punjab Congress will move the Punjab and Haryana high court for ensuring implementation of promises made by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in its manifesto for the 2012 assembly elections.
An internet portal for receiving complaints and redressing the grievances of the public was launched by the Punjab government on Wednesday.