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Amritsar No Cakewalk For Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion. IMAGE:......

Zardari elected as Pakistan President for a historic 2nd term

Asif Ali Zardari was overwhelmingly elected as the 14th President of Pakistan on Saturday, becoming the only civilian President of the coup-prone country for a second time. IMAGE: A 2013......

Pak parties strike deal to form govt; Shehbaz Sharif to be PM, Zardari Prez

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party have finally agreed on a power-sharing deal to form a coalition government led by former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, a move that......

Retiring SC judge says tolerance must for each other's opinion

People must have tolerance for each other's opinion at a time when the tolerance level has gone down internationally, Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said on Friday. IMAGE: Supreme......

Pannun 'Plot': 'US and India have bent backward...'

'...to prevent this episode from disrupting ongoing cooperation.''The discovery of this plot had the potential to derail much of what has been achieved in the relationship during this......

FM defends GST hike on essentials

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the mass consumption items such as pulses, wheat, rice, flour, and curd will not attract the 5 per cent goods and services tax (GST) when......

Winter rain won't cause large-scale damage to most rabi crops

For potato farmers in the north and wheat growers in the eastern parts -- particularly in Jharkhand, Bihar, and Odisha -- the recent rains could in fact be beneficial. An extended winter, with......

State of economy spooks BJP allies, but no one's listening

Its governing allies are not happy on the economy and complain of ignored concerns but find themselves unable to be assertive. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent address to company......

GST rollout on July 1; deadline for filing tax returns extended by 2 months

India will turn into one market at the stroke of mid-night between June 30 and July 1, with the rollout of the unified GST along with liberal tax filings rules for first two months to tide over any......

BJP's 23-point charter to get back black money

The Bhartiya Janata Party will pressure the United Progressive Alliance government in the upcoming Parliament session to act on a 23-point charter formulated by its 'task force' for following......

Welcome to Palekar cinema, Sonali

Nobody believed me when I said I was going to a reading of the script of Amol Palekar's newest venture Anaahat to see how well Sonali Bendre speaks Marathi.The wife could not stop smirking as I......

Major centres stunned as ODI WC ignites venue controversy

Photograph: Kind Courtesy ICC World Cup/Twitter The officials of major cricket centres, which have not been allocated an ODI World Cup matches, have expressed their disappointment at missing out......

Harbhajan's allegations pull the plug on PCA President's term

IMAGE: Photograph: ANI Photo On Thursday, the President of the Punjab Cricket Association, Gulzar Inder Singh Chahal resigned just days after former India spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed:......

South Africa's Faf du Plessis to captain T20 World XI in Pakistan

The squad includes representatives from seven nations for the games, which will have international status, in Lahore on September 12, 13 and 15. IMAGE: South Africa's cricket captain Faf du......

International cricket set to return to Pakistan... on a wing and a prayer

With security measures in place, Pakistan to host World XI next month Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi said getting security clearance had put the wheels in motion but he was......

BCCI adopts Lodha panel reforms but...

BCCI adopts Lodha panel reforms barring five contentious ones The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday adopted Lodha panel recommended reforms, barring the five contentious ones, at......

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