Showing the way out of yet another potentially explosive situation, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday advocated “pausing” all further progress on Maharashtra’s Jaitapur nuclear power project to give the government time to formulate a transparent nuclear energy policy.

An engineering graduate who topped his course in 1992 is likely to get his gold medal now, with the Punjab and Haryana high court directing Panjab University here to honour him.

Rubinderjit Singh Bra

An Akali Dal MLA's nephew and sitting party councilor shot and killed a leading hotelier in full public view in Jalandhar city late Wednesday night.
Prince Makkar, who represents the ruling party in the Jalandhar city corporation and is a nephew of Akali le-gislator Sarabjit Singh Mak-kar, shot Grand Hotel proprietor

Infuriated over a traffic police official stopping her, a women on Friday bit his hand. She has been charged for the offence.

According to the police, Shilpi, a Sector 37 resident, was talking over h

In an all-encompassing order provoked by the growing incidence of honour crimes in Punjab and Haryana, the high court at Chandigarh, on Wednesday, directed both state governments to institutionalise systems to ensure liberty of couples who choose to marry against the wishes of their parents.

A convicted rapist on parole and his friend battered to death two young widows in Haryana’s Bhiwani district late Sunday night.
The police arrested Naresh Kumar, serving jail time for rape, and his friend Subhash after they attacked and killed Suman, 35, and Shakuntala, 40, in full view of

A convicted rapist on parole and his friend battered to death two young widows in Haryana’s Bhiwani district late on Sunday night.
The police arrested Naresh Kumar who is serving jail time for rape and Subhash after they attacked and killed Suman (35) and Shakuntala (40) in full view of residents in Bhiwani’s Ranila Village. Eyewitnesses told the police the two men began thrashing the women with wooden staffs and kept battering them until they fell dead.

The Haryana government will go ahead with acquiring land for a controversial nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district despite continued protests from farmers and residents of the area against the pro

Evidently inspired by the huge success of Anna Hazare and his hunger strikers at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, a little known Punjabi politician has perched himself on a tall eucalyptus and refuses to climb down until his demands are met by the government.

The manufacture, disposal and usage of polythene bags made of virgin plastic in Punjab will get tougher from May 1. Rigorous imprisonment up to three months would be given to the offenders.

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