Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away on Tuesday afternoon after a two-year battle with cancer at Chandigarh’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research.
The chief minister, his son deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, daughter Preneet Kaur and daughter-in-law

In a bid to revive the higher education system, new state higher education minister Bratya Basu asserted that higher education would be made free from political influence and even a search committee would be constituted to look into the appointments made by the previous Left Front government.

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti has dubbed the ruling National Conference (NC) as a political deadwood and urged the people to weed it out which, she insisted, was in their interest.

Two CPI(M) workers — a man and his son — were burnt to death and three others injured at Kapasdanga village under the Beldanga police station area in Murshidabad on Monday night.

The crime branch has arrested three members of an organised gang who were allegedly involved in carrying out a broad daylight robbery at east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar branch of Muthoot Finance on May 10.

The impasse over the construction of the Joka-BBD Bag proposed Metro rail connection was resolved on Tuesday after the state transport department gave its NOC (no objection certificate) to the Railway ministry to implement the project. The construction work will resume on Wednesday.

A 75-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a young florist in northwest Delhi’s Keshavpuram area, the police said on Tuesday. The police said the accused identified as Prahlad, 22, has been arrested in the case. According

A young software professional was stabbed by unidentified assailants and fled away with his car and other valuables in northeast Delhi’s Harsh Vihar on Tuesday.

A young software professional was stabbed by unidentified assailants and fled away with his car and other valuables in Delhi’s Harsh Vihar on Tuesday.

The BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government continues to stick to a 1997 order which discriminates between the general category government officers and staff on the one side and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities on the other when it comes to holding an officer accountable after departmental inquiry.