Intent on hoisting the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday invited Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah to “prove his loyalty to the nation” by joining the culmination of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Rashtriya Ekta Yatra on Republic Day.

Chandigarh-based hydro-geologist Ritesh Arya, who holds the Guinness record for drilling the world’s highest tubewell at Siachen, has now found place among the “world’s top 10 small-scale renewable energy innovators” currently showcased at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

Perhaps fearing a repeat of last year’s caste violence that left a 70-year-old and his disabled daughter dead, besides 18 of their homes reduced to ashes, many dalit families have left Hisar’s Mirchpur village in the face of the agitation by upper caste jat khaps or caste councils.

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has sent an SOS message to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking instructions to banking institutions on undertaking strict scrutiny before advancing any more loans to any public enterprise under the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government.

The chairman of Iffco, the world’s largest farm fertiliser cooperative, Surinder Jakhar, was killed early on Monday morning in what the police has described as “accidental gunfire”.

Even as political parties have commenced their campaigns for elections to the new legislature, which are expected to be notified in less than a year’s time, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal h

Citing the facts emerging from the Central Bureau of Investigation and National Investigation Agency’s probes into the bombings at Malegaon, Hyderabad, Ajmer and onboard the Samjhauta Express as “incr

Thousands of upper caste jats took to the streets in Jind demanding a fresh CBI probe into the caste violence at Mirchpur Village last April.

Political conferences at the historic Maghi Mela (fair) of Muktsar, on Friday, witnessed a vitriolic exchange between Punjab’s main rival parties wherein the Congress led by former chief minister Amarinder Singh vowed to exact exemplary retribution when in power, while the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal renewed its rhetoric alleging discrimination by New Delhi.

Fifteen bandits wearing police uniforms looted in excess of `15 crores worth of gold jewellery from an elite watch and jewellery store in Chandigarh on Wednesday.