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.

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

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s “main man” in Punjab is quietly forging a revolution of sorts by employing an almost forgotten means of reaching out to his constituents — simply walking the length and breadth of the border state.

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.

Punjab’s former finance minister Manpreet Badal, who was unceremoniously ousted from the Cabinet and the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, on Sunday vowed to resurrect Punjabi pride by ridding the state of its myopic and corrupt politicians.

A Chandigarh-based scientist, who holds the Guinness Record for successfully drilling the highest tube well in the world at Siachen, has been appointed Indian coordinator to head a tri-nation — Norway, Iceland, India — initiative aimed at evolving new green technologies based on geothermal energy resources in the Himalayas.

Taking charge as the new Punjab Congress president amidst a huge crush of supporters and a galaxy of senior politicians on Friday, former chief minister Amarinder Singh promised his cadres that he would exact retribution from those responsible for fabricating thousands of criminal cases against Congress workers during the tenure of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government.

A Himachal Pradesh court on Thursday sentenced four young medical students to four years of hard labour for causing the tragic death of freshman Aman Kachru by ragging in March last year.

Former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh, who was recently appointed Punjab Congress president, was given an enthusiastic reception by common citizens and party workers as he drove in to seek blessings at Amritsar’s Golden Temple on Tuesday morning.