Ashwin welcomes inclusion of rookies for World T20

Gurgaon : Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Friday welcomed the inclusion of Indian rookies Jaspreet Bumrah and Hardik Pandya in the squad for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20, saying that they deserved to get a national call-up. “I think Bumrah and Pandya did really well. We won that series that pretty much gave us indication […]

Harry Mann resigns as Information Commissioner, to join Congress

CHANDIGARH : Harinder Pal Singh Harry Mann, who resigned who today resigned as Punjab Information Commissioner, is likely to return to the Congress. The second leader who is learnt to be joining the Congress is Deepinder Singh Dhillon.Both of them had joined the Akali Dal from the Congress.It may be mentioned that Dhillon, a close […]

Terrorism impedes Kashmir cause:Pak minister

Lahore, Feb.5 : Pakistan Federal Minister for Information Pervaiz Rashid has said that Pakistan had always kept the Kashmir dispute on the top of the agenda in talks with India.The Nation reported that the federal minister said terrorist activities had dealt a serious blow to the Kashmir cause.However, he said, some terrorist activity just before […]

Hit-and-run-case: Salman Khan’s hearing postponed to Feb.12

New Delhi : Supreme Court will hear Maharashtra Government’s special leave petition against Salman Khan in the hit-and-run-case on February 12th after it was postponed today.Khan had moved the Supreme Court, saying he should be heard before any hearing on the Maharashtra Government’s petition challenging his acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case.The Maharashtra Government had […]

SAD demands apology for racial heckling of Canada’s Sikh defence minister

New Delhi : The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday demanded that the Conservative Party MP who had made a ‘racial comment’ against Canada’s first Sikh Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, must apologise immediately.Targetting Canada’s opposition Member of Parliament Jason Kenney, SAD Delhi unit president Manjit Singh GK said that it was completely inappropriate for Kenney […]