Chandigarh : The Punjab Police have started pruning the security cover of VVIPs beginning with MPs and MLAs and their special officers even as a report by the committee formed for the purpose is to be submitted on March 24. In the first list of downsizing of security, the state police withdrew security men from […]
Chandigarh : Local Bodies, Tourism and Culture Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu is having the last laugh. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has been made to understand that the office-of-profit law does not bar Sidhu from continuing with his innings as a celebrity-judge on a popular TV comedy show. A day after Amarinder officially threw the […]
Seoul, March 23 : Nearly three years after it capsized and sank into the violent seas off South Korea’s southwestern coast, workers slowly pulled up the 6,800-ton ferry Sewol from the water on Thursday, an emotional moment for a country that continues to search for closure to one of its deadliest disasters ever. More than […]
Paris, March 23 : Militants are increasingly turning to vehicle-ramming attacks, like the one staged near Britain’s Parliament on Wednesday, because they are cheap, easy to organise and hard to prevent.Experts say the tactic of mowing people down avoids the need to obtain any explosives or weapons and can be carried out by a “lone-wolf” […]
New Delhi, March 23 : The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned hearing on the conspiracy charges against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti in connection with the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case by two weeks. The SC has also asked all parties concerned to file written submissions […]