Chandigarh : For all the tall talk of doing away with stubble burning on two million hectares in Punjab, an investment of just Rs 484 crore is needed with potential benefits of Rs 1,470 crore in two years plus the priceless advantage of a clean environment.Sounds like fiction, but this is what has been calculated […]
United Nations, September 17 : India has said that the UN reforms need to be “broad-based and all-encompassing” and the changes should not be restricted to its Secretariat only. “We feel that reforms need to be much more broad-based. “You cannot have reform only of the Secretariat. Reforms cannot side step issues related to governance of […]
New Delhi, September 17 : A state funeral will be accorded to Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh and the national flag will fly at half mast in all government buildings here tomorrow in his honour, the Home Ministry said on Sunday. The last rites of Singh, who passed away at the Army’s […]
Jalandhar, September 17 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced Maj Gen (Retd) Suresh Khajuriya as its candidate for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bypoll. Khajuriya, who hails from Bungal village in Pathankot, has served two tenures as Brigade and Division Commander in Punjab during his 40 years of service. While announcing this, Opposition leader […]
Panchkula, September 17 : The SIT on Sunday arrested a key functionary of the Dera Sacha Sauda, Pradeep Goyal Insan, from Udaipur in Rajasthan. He was close to dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and Honeypreet. Sources revealed that he told SIT that Honeypreet had already fled to Nepal.The SIT also arrested Prakash, alias Vicky, […]