Appealing industrialists of the town to come forward against corrupt practices being adopted in any of the concerned department, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vigilance Diljinder Singh Dhillon today vowed that Zero per cent tolerance should be adopted against the corruption by all walks of societies.

NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday called on Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan here to seek central support in settling the unsustainable debt burden of whopping Rs 31,000 crore. He also requested a review committee to examine the matter afresh.

PATNA: The flood situation in Bihar remained grim with the death toll reaching 341 on Tuesday, an official said.

NEW DELHI: The Muslim women who challenged the practice of triple talaq which was struck down on Tuesday by the Supreme Court expressed joy, with one saying that this was a "great day" for them.

CHANDIGARH: Cricket stadoum, sector 16 Chandigarh devlated temporary Jail keeping in view the verdict of panchkula Court in casenod dera Sacha Sauda

Amritsar: Former minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) general secretary Bikram Singh Majithia today said truth would prevail in the criminal defamation case filed by him against AAP Convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and two other AAP leaders and that no amount of lying, double faced statements and attempts to derail the trial would save the trio from a jail term.

Washington:  Divers searching for 10 missing American sailors have located some bodies inside the stricken US destroyer, a day after it collided with a merchant's vessel near Singapore, a US Admiral said on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: Noted Punjabi poet Surjit Patar was nominated as the Punjab Kala Parishad Chairman on Tuesday, state Tourism and Culture Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said.

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Punjab is on high alert ahead of a Haryana court verdict this week in a rape case against Dera Sacha Sauda chief and has received 75 companies of central forces to maintain law and order, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom Nawaz was diagnosed with throat cancer on Tuesday, the media reported.

New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has warned against any attempts to disrupt the state’s law and order in view of the upcoming court verdict in the rape case against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

Batala: Three members of a family including mother and her two daughters received  burn injuries when their LPG cylinder caught fire while preparing meal at their house in Staff Road area today,

Gurdaspur: Naya Bharat Sankalap Yatra led by BJP state president and Union minister Vijay Sampla, was accorded a warm welcome on its arrival in border district Gurdaspur. The yatra was started from historic Jallianwala bagh today in an order to eradicate corruption, poverty, castism ,terrorism and communalism.

CHANDIGARH: Following the best workplace and people practices, FieldFresh Foods, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises & Del Monte Pacific Limited, has been felicitated with 2 prestigious awards from the Great Place to Work® for the year 2017.

NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narinder Modi hailed the Supreme Court verdict on the practice of triple talaq announced by a five-judge constitution bench earlier Tuesday. The top court, in a 3:2 ruling, had set aside the practice of Islamic divorce, terming it ‘unconstitutional’, ‘null’ and against the basic tenets of the Quran.

CHANDIGARH:Rajesh Kumar from Chandigarh, Mangat Chandel from Ludhiana and Satish Kumar from Delhi emerged as the top three winners of the Castrol Super Mechanic regional round held in Delhi, and have qualified for the all India finals to be held in Mumbai in September 2017.

New Delhi:  The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central government, Facebook, Google and Yahoo on a plea seeking direction to the internet majors to take down the links of the Blue Whale game.

NEW DELHI; Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court's judgement striking down triple talaq, saying that it was an indication of an emerging new India.

WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI; President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited Afghanistan policy, warning the US will take action within Pakistan if it did not stop backing terrorists battling American forces. And in a first for an American President, Trump brought India directly into the equation by assigning a strategic role for New Delhi.

CHANDIGARH: Akali  Supremo and  former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal today blasted what he described as “the unholy and anti-Panthic combine of  immoral  ‘Massarangarhs’, the anti-Sikh Congress party  and the self-styled  “alternative Jathedars” for vitiating the atmosphere in Khalsa Panth’s  holy shrine ,Gurdwara Ghallughara Sahib at Kahnuwan Sahib”