Over 50 trucks laden with prized onions cultivated across the border in Pakistan drove across the Attari-Wagah border over Monday and Tuesday as part of a private initiative by Amritsar-based traders, which is expected to ease the skyrocketing onion prices across north Indian states.

In a move that could have far reaching consequences for the most basic democratic institutions, the Punjab government on Wednesday quietly issued an ordinance that omits Section 19 of the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act (1994) which gives elected members of any village panchayat the power to pass a vote of no confidence to remove a “corrupt” or “no-performing” sarpanch

Punjab’s usually reticent bureaucracy, well-known for its almost legendary reluctance in parting with official records under the Right to Information Act, has turned curiously forthcoming on handing o

The Haryana government has ordered the mandatory profiling of all drivers, security guards and other service sector personnel employed with private firms located in Gurgaon.

The lawyer appointed to defend India’s Sarabjit Singh, who has been languishing between life and death in Pakistani prisons, wants New Delhi to make a more active intervention to secure the early release and repatriation of the prisoner.

The government on Saturday said Parliament was “ill-equipped” to probe 2G spectrum allocation and ruled out adjourning sine die the winter session of the House ahead of its scheduled end due to the lo

Rejecting defence minister A.K. Anthony’s contention that her son had in fact committed suicide, Shaurya Chakra winner Capt.

In a precedent-setting judgment with a direct bearing on the right to privacy of Indian citizens, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday dismissed a petition by a former Haryana director-general of police seeking directions to the Registrar General Census Operations to make public the “religion and faith” professed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her children.

A group of displaced Kashmiris, incensed over what they perceived as “anti-India” remarks, assaulted the Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while he was addressing a seminar in Chandigarh on Thursday morning.

Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Bilal Lone were on Thursday manhandled allegedly by a group of Kashmiri Pandit activists who stormed a seminar being attended by them here.