Nine people flee US border patrol to seek asylum in Canada

Champlain (New York), February 18 : Nine asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a US border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene. As a US Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front […]

CBI arrests Punjab joint director, technical education, for graft

Chandigarh, February 18 : The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a joint director of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000. A case was registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the Joint Director working in the Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training […]

Shahabuddin brought to Patna on way to Tihar

Patna, February 18 : Two days after the Supreme Court ordered the shifting of former RJD strongman Mohammad Shahabuddin from Bihar’s Siwan jail to Delhi’s Tihar Central Jail, he was brought to Patna on Saturday amidst tight security. He would be taken to Delhi by the Rajdhani Express on Saturday evening, the police said. Shahabuddin […]

SC no to policy on ‘Vande Mataram’

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a direction to the government to frame a national policy to promote “Vande Mataram”, saying there was no concept of a National Song in the law. “We do not intend to enter into any debate as far as the National Song […]

Panneerselvam camp appoints Semmalai as party Whip

Chennai, February 18 : The O Panneerselvam camp has appointed sitting MLA Semmalai as the party whip and sent a letter to the Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal to this effect. AIADMK Presidium Chairman E Madhusudhanan and AIADMK Treasurer O Panneerselvam in the letter said they had appointed S Semmalai as the party whip, prior to […]