London : Twelve months after shutting down his season in the wake of a devastating semifinal defeat, Roger Federer returns to Wimbledon as favourite to capture a record-breaking eighth title and become the tournament’s oldest champion. The evergreen Swiss, who turns 36 in August, has stunned the critics who wrote him off as yesterday’s man […]
North Sound (Antigua), July 3 : An inexplicable slow batting pushed India to a 11-run defeat in the fourth cricket One-day International against West Indies, who kept the five-match series alive, here today. A second-string West Indies, which never looked like challenging India enough in this series, scored a modest 189 for nine, but sluggish […]
Chandigarh : Even as nonagenarian freedom fighter Mohan Singh recently moved the High Court seeking compensation for the “brutal death” of his grandfather at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919, documents chanced upon during the digitisation of Punjab Archives show that the British had announced “liberal compensation” to the victim families of the massacre. […]
Gurdaspur : The district administration raided several unauthorised centres of travel agents and ordered the immediate closure of more than 100 of these offices. The owners now face prosecution. According to the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act, 2012, agents desirous of sending people abroad should register with the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office. The DC, Amit […]
Chandigarh : The state government has detected that projects worth more than Rs800 crore were allotted through single bidding in the Municipal Corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, said Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is illegal to allot projects through single bidding. “The state has 167 local bodies, besides Improvement Trusts. I have […]