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New Delhi, November 1External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday underlined the need for better connectivity in the SCO region, built on the centrality of interests of Central Asian states.Respect integrityConnectivity projects should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of member states and respect international law. S Jaishankar, External Affairs…

Saurabh MalikChandigarh, November 1For the first time since it was established more than a century ago, the Punjab and Haryana High Court will have 13 women judges with the President appointing nine judicial officers from Punjab and Haryana. The appointment of advocate Kuldeep Tiwari, too has been notified. The High…

New Delhi, November 1Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited the site of the Morbi suspension bridge collapse that claimed over 130 lives and directed a detailed probe into all aspects of the tragedy even as the Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea seeking judicial inquiry into the mishap.135…

Thiruvananthapuram, November 1Flight operations were suspended for five hours and a number of services rescheduled at the airport here on Tuesday to enable the traditional “Aaratu” procession of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple pass through the runway, in lines with a decades old practice involving the local Royals.At least 10 flights of…

New Delhi, November 1External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday underlined the need for better connectivity in the SCO region built on the centrality of interests of Central Asian states.He also spoke on the need to pay attention to Iran’s Chabahar port in order to step up connectivity to the…

Aman Sood Tribune News Service Patiala, November 1 The Congress on Tuesday demanded a high-level probe in alleged liquor smuggling from Punjab to poll bound Gujarat. Senior Congress leader and Punjab’s leader of the opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa asked the Election Commission of India to intervene and check inflow…

IANS New Delhi, November 1 Some Indian students in Canada are accusing the country of using them as a cheap source of labour and discarding them once they are no longer needed, a media report said on Tuesday. Amid labour shortage and high unemployment rate, which fell to 5.2 per…

Tithwal (Jamp;K), November 1A neat white line drawn in the middle of a suspension bridge that sits right on the Line of Control separates the border village of India’s Tithwal and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The bridge has seen wars and tumultuous phases of history in the heavily militarised region.With a…

New Delhi, November 1The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would list for hearing on November 14 a PIL seeking constitution of a judicial commission to probe the Morbi bridge collapse incident in Gujarat which claimed over 130 lives.According to the latest reports, the death toll in the collapse of…

New Delhi, November 1The government will come out with proposed modalities and terms of references for setting up grievance appellate committees to address social media users’ complaints in the next 10-12 days, and expects the panel to be in place by November 30, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday.The…

Jagraon, November 1 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced to spruce up the government healthcare infrastructure across the state for providing state-of-the-art medical treatment and diagnostic services to the people. “During the run-up for elections we had promised a guarantee of quality healthcare to the people and no…

New Delhi, November 1 Giridhar Aramane, a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, on Tuesday assumed charge as Defence Secretary. He has been appointed as OSD in the Ministry of Defence on October 19. He succeeded Ajay Kumar as the Defence Secretary. Before taking charge, Aramane…

Vibha Sharma New Delhi, November 1 Aam Aadmi Party’s jailed minister Satyendra Jain and conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar are “close friends”, the BJP alleged on Tuesday, accusing AAP of “conning the conman by extorting protection money from him”. Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly election and the MCD polls, the AAP on…

Chandigarh, November 1 Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer AP Dhillon has been hospitalised after suffering an injury while he was on the US tour. Dhillon took to his Instagram where he posted an apology to his fans who were to attend his concerts in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the first…

Saurabh MalikChandigarh, September 12For the first time since it was established more than a century ago, the Punjab and Haryana High Court will have 13 women Judges with the centre notifying the appointment of nine judicial officers from both the states of Punjab and Haryana.The appointment of an advocate, Kuldeep…