Sec 307 against Akalis stands: Jakhar

Sec 307 against Akalis stands: Jakhar

Jalandhar : State Congress president Sunil Jakhar today said the cases registered against SAD leaders under Section 307 (attempt to murder)of the IPC and for holding dharna and disrupting traffic on the national highway still stand and won’t be withdrawn. In response to the former Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal’s dare to the Punjab Government to arrest […]

Seeking damages, Sikh body preserves ‘scars’ of Op Bluestar

Seeking damages, Sikh body preserves ‘scars’ of Op Bluestar

Amritsar : To keep a ‘live evidence’ of the Operation Bluestar, as many as 147 bullet marks on the façade and sidewalls of the historic Teja Singh Samundri Hall at the Golden Temple complex have been preserved by the SGPC. Besides, a decrepit ‘Darshani Deodi’ (entrance of the sanctum sanctorum), leading to Atta Mandi near […]

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar turns 95; wife Saira plans get-together

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar turns 95; wife Saira plans get-together

Mumbai, December 11 : Legendary actor Dilip Kumar turned 95 on Monday, and to celebrate this day, a restricted get-together of family members and close friends would be organised, said wife and veteran actress Saira Banu. The ailing actor has just been treated for mild pneumonia. “On Dilip Saab’s birthday, as we get together as […]

‘Pak interference’: Apologise to Manmohan, Ansari, Cong tells Modi

‘Pak interference’: Apologise to Manmohan, Ansari, Cong tells Modi

New Delhi, December 11 : The Congress on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to former Vice-President Hamid Ansari and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for “insinuating” that they were colluding with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the Gujarat Assembly elections. Perceiving a “clear defeat” in Gujarat, the Prime Minister was “frustrated […]

Rahul Gandhi elected Congress president

Rahul Gandhi elected Congress president

New Delhi, December 11 : Rahul Gandhi has been elected unopposed to the position of Congress president, the party’s Central Election Authority announced after Monday’s deadline for withdrawal of nominations. Central Election Authority Chairman Mullapally Ramchandran said the committee had received 89 nomination papers, all proposing Gandhi’s name for the position. “Eighty-nine nomination papers proposing […]