French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Sunday that the spiralling financial crisis had subsided as efforts to restore stability in the Eurozone had borne fruit.
In a rare judgment, a Chandigarh district court awarded death sentence to a 50-year-old from Amritsar for a drug crime committed five years ago. Usually the maximum punishment in a drug crime is rigorous imprisonment and a heavy fine.
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that the Congress has a unique track record in dealing with corruption which could not be said about other parties.
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said author Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to come to India and given police protection.
Candidates contesting assembly polls have become richer in the last five years with their assets growing manifold. Leading the list of highest jump in assets (percentage-wise) among contestants is Congress candidate from Bholath constituency Sukhpal Singh Khaira.
The proposed special economic zones of Reliance Haryana SEZ Ltd (RHSL), a joint venture of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Ventures Ltd and Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC), reel under dark.
In order to address the issue of groundwater depletion in Gurgaon, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the petitioners to highlight the core issues requiring appropriate directions from the court.
As many as 507 aspirants, including PPP's Gurdas Singh Badal, filed their nominations on Thursday for the state assembly election in Punjab slated for January 30.
Accusing the Congress of following a divisive agenda, the BJP on Friday said that the party is facing a leadership crisis.
Agni-V, the 5,000-km version of the nuclear capable missile, is in the final phase of testing and is soon set for launch, a senior DRDO official said in Chandigarh today.
BSP Supremo Mayawati will address four rallies in Punjab on January 21 and 22 to woo voters, even as the party hopes to fare better in the state assembly elections on January 30.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the chief electoral officer (CEO), Punjab, to ensure that officers likely to be put on election duty should not serve in their home districts and those who have completed three years in that district during the past four years or would be completing three years on or before March 31, 2012, should be transferred immediately.
Army chief General VK Singh, whose statutory complaint to change his date of birth has been rejected by the defence ministry, has faced another turndown — this time from Haryana over a plot he wanted swapped. Navneet Sharma reports.
The scenes outside Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 (GMCH-32) and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in Chandigarh — the two hospitals housing the survivors as well as the victims of Monday’s accident — were heartrending to say the least.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday announced its second list of 21 candidates, making it 111 nominees in the fray for the January 30 Punjab assembly elections that the party would contest in absence of any alliance.