bhubaneshwar : India took their own sweet time to wake up from the blissful trance they seemed to have gone into after having pushed world champions Australia to the limit on the first day. But just as the spectators screamed their loudest to egg the hosts towards victory, Sam Ward’s stunning on-the-turn strike into the […]
New Delhi, December 3 : Virat Kohli scaled yet another milestone, becoming the first skipper to hit six double centuries in Test cricket. The 29-year-old Indian thus surpassed West Indies great Brian Lara, who held the record previously with five double tons in Tests. India’s current ‘Milestone Man’, who had emulated Rahul Dravid with his […]
Chandigarh : Three farmers commit suicide in a day in six Malwa districts — Sangrur, Bathinda, Mansa, Barnala, Ludhiana and Moga. This is the average of the last 15 years. A door-to-door survey in these districts has found that a total of 14,667 agricultural labourers and farmers committed suicide between 2000 and 2015. The matter […]
Patiala : The Aam Aadmi Party has taken the lead in the municipal poll process by coming up with the first list of 29 candidates today. Of these, 11 are women candidates. While three of the candidates are under-matric, 10 are undergraduates. While the Congress had released its manifesto for these elections in June, AAP […]
Chandigarh : Punjab Documentation and Advocacy Project (PDAP) will move the Supreme Court with what it claims is new information on 8,257 extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances in Punjab during militancy (1980-1995). The group, a part of The Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT), an outfit of human rights organisations, will also be asking the apex court […]