The decision to send 12 legislators on a trip to distilleries in Scotland while Punjab desperately grapples with an unprecedented flood situation has raised a huge storm with politicians of all hues crying foul over the “blatant abuse of authority and taxpayers’ money”.

A young woman posing as the daughter of the Sultan of Dubai was arrested in Punjab after she tried to extort large sums of cash from families of the 17 Indians currently on death row in Sharjah for the murder of a Pakistani national.

The Army’s decision to seek a review of the Armed Forces Tribunal judgment ordering a rewrite of the official Kargil War history to accurately reflect Briggadier Devinder Singh’s execution of the vict

Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao has concluded a series of meetings with top functionaries of the Tibetan government-in-exile, including the Dalai Lama, at McLeodganj (Dharamsala) in Himachal Pradesh.

Multiple breaches along the incomplete Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal, which has been at the focus of the longest-pending dispute between Haryana and Punjab, and the largely seasonal Ghaggar river tributaries, have emerged as the cause for much misery in both of India’s main food-producing states.

Thousands of ecstatic Tibetan exiles quite literally poured out from their homes to join a common celebration to mark the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday in McLeodganj, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile since 1960.

The world’s most photographed monk Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and perhaps the best-known in a celebrated succession of the Dalai Lamas, turns 75 today, including the six tum

Two more teenagers were poisoned to death early on Sunday morning in Haryana’s Fatehabad district adding to the growing list of honour killings in the caste and tradition-bound state.

Film actor Kareena Kapoor’s vintage style, red crash helmet as she rides a scooter to meet Amir Khan in the final sequence of the Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots appears to have achieved the impossible in Punjab.

Already struggling with jat-dalit conflicts and honour killings ordered by the khaps or caste councils, the Haryana administration now faces an communal situation in a Jind village where Muslim residents have been prevented from burying their dead.