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BARNALA: Coinciding with the centenary of Ghadar Party, some American Punjabis are out to showcase the lives of Ghadarites, including legendary martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha, in a celluloid form. Ghadar Party was formed away from India in USA in 1913 with a motive to get India out of imperial forces’ clutches and many Ghadarites had [...]

GREEN GESTURE: Justice Elipe Dharma Rao of the Madras High Court planting a sapling on the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University campus on the eve of the World Environment Day on Saturday. CHENNAI: The right to life protected under Article 21 of the Constitution is sacrosanct and is always on a high pedestal as [...]

Ghaziabad: Jat leader Satpal Singh was granted bail on Friday in a case of suspending water supply from the Ganga Canal to Delhi last year in protest against the government’s reservation policy. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pushpender Kumar granted bail to Satpal Singh, general secretary of Akhil Bhartiya Jat Andolan Samiti. On June 13, 2010, [...]

NEW DELHI: A quickfire half-century by Sunny Sohal and an equally useful knock of 49 from captain Kumar Sangakkara helped Deccan Chargers register a 16-run victory over Delhi Daredevils in their Indian Premier League match here on Tuesday. Scorecard | Match in Pics Opting to bat, Sohal (62, 41b, 8X4, 1X6) and Sangakkara (49, 35b, [...]

Darjeeling, Sep 28 (ANI): Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee emphasised that she would urge Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit the hills in West Bengal and offer special economic package to the people of the region Banerjee, who flagged off a tourist special toy train on World Tourism Day in Darjeeling, said: [...]

New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): After the visit to Jammu and Kashmir by the All Party Delegation, the Government of India has announced an eight-point package to provide a healing touch to the people of the violence-hit state. The package is expected to make a beginning towards sorting out the internal dimensions of the Kashmir [...]

Vienna, Sep 28 (DPA) Six radical Sikh men received heavy prison sentences Tuesday in Vienna for their involvement in the killing of a senior Indian sect leader last year in Austria’s capital, media reported. The May 2009 attack at the temple of the Dera Sach Khand sect had triggered widespread violence in India’s northern states [...]

Amritsar, Sep. 27 (ANI): Mohammad Rafi Memorial Society organised an award night in remembrance of the singing legend, six awards were presented on the occasion. Tarlochan Singh, a play back singer and President of Mohammad Rafi Memorial Society said on the occasion: “Today, Mohammad Rafi Memorial Society has organised an award ceremony function. Here, we [...]

Raipur, Sep. 27 (ANI): The families of policemen being held hostage by Maoists in Bhopalpatnam, near the Chhattisgarh- Andhra border, have appealed for their release without delay. Maoists abducted the seven policemen last Sunday, including an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Special police officer and three constables. The bodies of three policemen were recovered a day [...]

Lahore, Sep 27(ANI): Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s alma mater in Lahore, Bradlaugh Hall, is facing decay and may become a heap of bricks and building material if Pakistani authorities continue ignore the grand building. Muhammad Iqbal Ashraf, registrar of the Milli Technical Idara (MTI), said that the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) had allotted [...]

Chandigarh, Sep 27 (IANS) The Panjab University will honour eminent author and journalist Khushwant Singh and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee with Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Laws degrees respectively, a varsity spokesman said here Monday. ‘Eminent author and celebrated journalist Khushwant Singh has been recommended for conferment of the Doctor of Literature [...]

Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) lacks internal democracy, rebel party leader Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh said with barely three weeks to go for the first phase of the state assembly polls. Lalan Singh, the JD-U MP from Munger, told IANS that the party had become a private limited company [...]

Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Sep 27 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Police Monday intensified searches in the jungles of Bijapur district to rescue four policemen abducted by Maoists, a day after the rebels set a 48-hour deadline for accepting their demands for their release. ‘We are doing the best to track down the Maoists who are shifting an assistant sub-inspector, [...]

Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) Pakistan’s diversion of US supplied arms against India and export controls on high tech items top Defence Minister A. K. Antony’s agenda here to prepare the ground for President Barack Obama’s upcoming India visit. ‘On the whole, India-US defence relations are steadily expanding and both countries have a stake in strengthening [...]

New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) The bid for the Commonwealth Games 2010 was spurred by an appeal made by students of 120 schools of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), says sports writer and filmmaker Sunil Yash Kalra. ‘They prepared a memorandum, put their signatures and said, ‘Hey, we want the Commonwealth Games’,’ Kalra [...]

New Delhi, Sep 21 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said India wants to strengthen economic relations with her neighbours since a peaceful neighbourhood is mandatory for the ”realisation of our own vision of economic growth”. “Any visualization of India”s global role must begin in our immediate neighbourhood because situational factors in that environment affect [...]

Washington, Sep 21 (ANI): Skygazers got a chance to see the brightest Jupiter Monday night when the planet came closest to Earth since 1951. In fact, for about the next four months the giant planet will be teamed up with a distant relative: Uranus. Jupiter will officially be nearest to our planet—368 million miles (592 [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): The days are long gone when mobile phone use was restricted to just talking and texting, for it is now barging into the territory of PCs, so much so, that people prefer checking their mails on their cellphones instead of their computers. According to a report, half of users in their [...]

Brisbane, Sept 21 (ANI): The probe into the death of an Indian origin woman, Neelma Singh and her siblings has taken a new turn after the Brisbane Magistrates Court heard that an acrimonious message was sent by Singh to a man the night before they were killed in their Brisbane home. Neelma, 24, and siblings [...]

Unnao (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 21 (IANS) Four teenaged members of a family drowned in a pond in this Uttar Pradesh district Monday, police said. The four – Sheebu, Shahdab, Sallu and Roshan – aged around 18 years and residents of the Ravidas Nagar village, drowned in the pond in Gangaghat town while fishing. ‘While the [...]