Double trouble for Lanka

Double trouble for Lanka

Colombo : India bulldozed Sri Lanka by 168 runs in the fourth ODI after skipper Virat Kohli and opener Rohit Sharma smashed blistering hundreds to put the tourists 4-0 up in the five-match series here today. It’s Sri Lanka’s biggest ODI defeat on home soil in terms of runs and leaves them unable to claim […]

No takers for dera head’s controversial pink robe

No takers for dera head’s controversial pink robe

Bathinda : A pink robe worn by Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh during a congregation at Salabatpura here on May 13, 2007, when he kicked up a row by allegedly imitating Guru Gobind Singh, has been lying dumped in the “malkhana” of Kotwali police station for the past decade.The then Bathinda DSP, […]

DeMo ruined us, say kin of those who died

DeMo ruined us, say kin of those who died

Chandigarh : “Was it all done to get rid of elderly people?” Gurdial Singh asks. Till December 5 last year, neither had he known what black money was nor had he heard the word notebandi. But it snatched away his father, Malook Singh, a 65-year-old ex-serviceman. He had gone to get his pension, but passed […]

Stay on Jat quota Act continues

Stay on Jat quota Act continues

Chandigarh, September 1 : More than a year after the constitutional validity of an Act providing reservation to Jats and five other communities under the newly created BC (C) category was challenged, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday directed that it would be kept in abeyance till March 31, 2018. Sending the matter […]

SC panel to examine SIT decision to close 199 anti-Sikh riot cases

SC panel to examine SIT decision to close 199 anti-Sikh riot cases

New Delhi, September 1 : The Supreme Court has constituted a supervisory body comprising two of its former judges to examine the decision of the SIT to close 199 cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court named its former judges, Justice JM Panchal and Justice KSP Radhakrishnan, as members of the supervisory […]