An allegedly drunk young woman who fled after the Honda Accord she was driving knocked down and killed a six-year-old boy and his older cousin Tuesday night has been arrested.

The Punjab government will deploy an armed guard and closed-circuit television cameras to prevent miscreants from stealing the pistol from Shaheed Udham Singh’s statue in Rajpura Town.

Two villages in Haryana’s Bhiwani district are preparing to re-establish familial and social ties after more than a century of animosity forced by tradition.
The pre-dominantly Brahmin residents of Jhuppa Kalan have called a “historic panchayat meeting” on August 29 to finally scrap the customary rules preventing them from serving food or water to the people of neighbouring Barwas, also a Brahmin village.

The police in Chandigarh has arrested a young woman who fled after the car she was driving knocked down and killed a six-year-old boy and his older cousin on Tuesday night.

Ten very fortunate Pakistani prisoners will be released and repatriated to mark the 63rd Anniversary of Independence from imperialist British rule as also the Partition of India. A similarly symbolic number of Indians incarcerated in Pakistan are also expected to return home.

A gang of kidnappers in Punjab’s Jalandhar district have demanded a ransom of Rs 55 lakhs to release a 17-year-old school boy who is a US citizen of Indian (Punjabi) origin.

The Bhakra-Beas Management Board has sounded its intent to increase the discharge of water following continuing rainfall leading to unacceptably high levels in its reservoirs.

The Bhakra-Beas Management Board has sounded its intent to increase the discharge of water following continuing rainfall leading to unacceptably high levels in its reservoirs.

Adding a completely fresh dimension to Tibet’s five decades old democracy-in-exile, a woman politician has for the first time announced her decision to make a bid for the Kalon Tripa or Prime Minister’s office in the elections in 2011.

An influential, upper caste khap panchayat or caste council in Haryana’s Bhiwani district agreed to withdraw the social boycott of a village family 22 years after it had imposed the damning diktat during which both, the head of the victim family and his younger brother passed away.