CHANDIGARH : As the Punjab assembly elections draw closer, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its leadership are grappling with a host of political skirmishes — both within and outside. The party, which is the newest entrant on the Punjab political scene — dominated largely by the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress over […]
Chandigarh : The thought of gaining power can corrupt too. Or so it seems. As many as 16 sitting Congress MLAs, former MLAs and senior leaders, lobbying for the party ticket, have laid a ‘siege’ to the Punjab Bhawan in Delhi. Not willing to concede defeat to the “Opposition” just as yet, the ruling dispensation […]
Lagos(Nigeria), December 14 : Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die if they don’t get treatment in the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising, the UN Children’s Agency warned. “What is already a crisis can become a catastrophe,” UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake […]
Islamabad : Pakistan is encouraged by growing support in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for establishing criteria for membership of non-NPT countries, but are wary of “big powers” pressurising smaller countries into granting exemptions for India in the admission process, media reported on Wednesday. “There are a lot of countries that now recognise the need for […]
New Delhi, December 14 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to put in place within six months a national action plan to curb the rising drugs and alcohol abuse cases among schoolchildren, observing that they are encouraged to become “drug peddlers once they get addicted”. A bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur […]