Gurdaspur : Two masked persons fired shots at Dera Baba Nanak AAP candidate Gurpartap Singh Khushalpur late last night following which the police tightened the security in the area. Khushalpur and his four supporters escaped unhurt. Senior police officers of Batala police district, including SSP Deepak Hilori, rushed to the spot around midnight.The SSP said […]
London : British Prime Minister Theresa May today vowed to stick to her party’s pledge to cut the migration figures down to “tens of thousands”, evoking a strong reaction from Liberal Democrats who warned that her tough stand will damage ties with countries like India. The Prime Minister said it was important to hit this target […]
Chandigarh : The Aam Aadmi Party today appointed Sangrur Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann as the new Punjab convener as part of its strategy to shore up the party’s organisational structure following its disappointing show in the recent Assembly elections. Sunam MLA Aman Arora will be Mann’s deputy. The move, however, triggered fresh trouble for […]
New Delhi, May 9 : A Delhi court on Tuesday will pass an order on the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea seeking permission to conduct a lie-detector test on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who was given a clean chit by the agency in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, and arms dealer Abhishek Verma for further […]
Washington, May 9 : India’s growth is expected to rebound to 7.2 per cent in the 2017–18 fiscal and 7.7 per cent in 2018-19 after disruptions caused by demonetisation, the IMF said on Tuesday, while recommending the removal of long-standing structural bottlenecks to enhance market efficiency. The temporary disruptions (primarily to private consumption) caused by […]