Tibetan Parliament spokesperson Mr Tenzin Norbu said prime minister Kalon Tripa’s responsibilities will now include the selection of representatives and special envoys to hold talks with China.

Even as Punjabi politicians of all hues sought a reprieve for Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar and called upon Delhi to commute his now confirmed death sentence to

Reserving most of her venom for the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance the Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Ms Mayawati accused Congress leaders of deliberately fue

Thousands of affected people followed Punjab’s best known eco-activist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, on Wednesday, to block the intensely polluted Kala Sanghian Drain which is known to dump lakhs of tons of poisonous industrial effluents directly into the river Sutlej.

In what is widely being seen as a bid to resurrect its image ahead of the Assembly elections in Punjab next February, the Bharatiya Janata Party has denied Cabinet berths to two of its seniormost min

Avtar Singh Nagla, a Punjabi politician-farmer who perched himself atop a tall eucalyptus tree exactly 30 days ago, demanding restoration of land acquired from local villagers, including his own grandfather’s land over four decades back, is finally back on the ground.

Swami Aseemanand, a key suspect in multiple bomb attacks, targeting the Muslim community at Ajmer, Hyderabad and Malegaon, on Thursday, denied a hand in the February 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing, which killed 68 passengers, the majority of whom were Pakistan nationals returning to Lahore after visiting relatives in India.

Prompted by the BJP’s national leadership all the five party ministers and two chief parliamentary secretaries resigned from their positions in the Punjab government in what is being seen as an attempt to limit damage amidst allegations of corruption.

The Central Bureau of Investigation will question two senior Bharatiya Janata Party ministers to try and determine if they were the intended recipients of a `1.5-crore bribe intercepted during a dramatic entrapment that led to the arrest of chief parliamentary secretary Raj Khurana (also BJP) and an accomplice on Wednesday.

Officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s anti corruption unit, on Thursday, arrested Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Raj Khurana who holds a Cabinet rank in the state government as chief pa