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The United States imposed 50 per cent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products on Saturday. Canada immediately said it would retaliate and suspended trade negotiations with the US after last-minute changes to Washington’s proposed terms, with Prime Minister Mark Carney saying the terms were “unfair” and “uneconomic”. Carney said Canada had made significant […]
A father-daughter duo from Alampur in Kangra district has set an inspiring example by completing their three-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) course together and securing top positions in the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) examination. Anshika Rana topped the LLB examination while her father, Praveen Rana, secured the third position. Both pursued their law degree together […]
The Edmonton police arrested a 27-year-old man after he allegedly stabbed two men, including a priest, with a screwdriver at the Nanaksar Gurdwara early Friday morning. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the incident, calling the attack “appalling”. He expressed his thoughts for the injured and the wider community shaken by the incident. “No one […]
Haryana’s Urban Local Bodies Department is set to revise water tariffs across municipal areas, introducing a 5 per cent annual increase and bringing rates at par with those charged by the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP). Under the revised tariff, metered domestic consumers in municipal areas will be charged Rs 3 per kilolitre (KL) for […]
A Panama-flagged cargo ship carrying 24 crew members sank in the Bay of Bengal off Odisha on Saturday. While two sailors were found alive on a life raft on Saturday night, a massive search operation is on to locate the 22 other sailors at sea. The Panama-flagged vessel, MV Ocean Winner, lost communication with the […]
The ruling BJP on Saturday firmed up its political and electoral strategy, placing a national-level push for Gen Z outreach and Vande Mataram at the centre. The first meeting of the newly appointed national office-bearers of the party finalised a plan for active youth engagement, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent nudge to […]
India has moved to deepen its energy footprint in the Indian Ocean region with a five-year agreement to supply Mauritius’ entire import requirement of petrol, high-speed diesel and aviation turbine fuel, positioning New Delhi as the island nation’s anchor fuel supplier.The agreement was signed during Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s official visit […]
Amid a political controversy over allegations that Dr Gurpreet Kaur Mann, wife of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, had sought Rs 5 crore to allegedly scuttle a rape case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today dismissed the charges as “baseless and politically motivated”. It accused the Opposition of resorting to personal attacks as it had […]
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar will visit Russia on August 23 and 24 to co-chair the 27th session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), even as the two strategic partners seek to deepen economic ties and expand cooperation across key sectors.He is visiting Russia at the […]
A divide has emerged within the Congress over the legacy of former MP Sajjan Kumar, with former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi calling it a “sin to talk about him”. Kumar, who was serving life sentence in cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, died at a Delhi hospital on Thursday. The controversy erupted after […]
In a major overhaul of its organisational structure, the DMK on Saturday introduced age and tenure limits for party functionaries and increased the number of organisational districts from 77 to 110. The move follows the party’s defeat in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections held in April, and is aimed at strengthening its organisational machinery and […]
The Tamil Nadu Government has issued work orders for nearly 1.28 lakh gold rings, costing approximately Rs 220 crore, to two jewellery retail chains under Maternal Uncle Gold Ring Scheme for newborns, a poll promise made by TVK, an official said on Saturday. Over one lakh gold rings are required to implement the scheme for […]
The BJP-led Maharashtra government on Saturday turned over a new leaf by deciding to let retired police dogs stay with the forces after their retirement. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took the call amid growing demands to change the practice of giving away retired and trained canines for adoption after they retire. Under present rules, […]
In further signs of a possible pre-poll alliance in Punjab, senior BJP leader and Punjab BJP core committee member RP Singh today met Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal in New Delhi. RP Singh called on Sukhbir at the latter’s residence in Sultanpur to enquire about his health. Sukhbir Badal has been recuperating at […]
Amid a row over an alleged attack on members of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) during a visit to a government school in Jaipur, the outfit and local villagers have lodged FIRs against each other, accusing one another of assault and creating a ruckus. The CJP team on Friday reached Rampura Kanwarpura village to inspect […]
Punjab Congress president and Ludhiana MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring has served a legal notice on former Director General of Police (DGP) Mohammad Mustafa, accusing him of making false, defamatory, derogatory and malicious statements against him during a recent interview with a private channel. Mustafa is the husband of former cabinet minister Razia Sultana and […]
Several people have died after a collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England between a police car and a passenger car, the local police force said on Saturday. Cleveland Police said the incident took place at around 3.39 a.m. (0239 GMT) on a main road near the South Bank area to the east of Middlesbrough. “Sadly, […]
The BJP’s full meeting of national office bearers on Saturday passed a resolution condemning the recent Congress Working Committee resolution to sing only two stanzas of the National Song Vande Mataram. Noting that the complete song represents national consciousness, the BJP stressed that Parliament has now passed a law granting Vande Mataram equal national status […]
A 19-year-old third-year student of Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) at IIM, Dhaula Kuan, in Paonta Sahib died by suicide on Friday afternoon. He has been identified as Prabhat Shukla, a resident of Jabalpur. His body was found under suspicious circumstances in his room. Upon receiving information about the incident, a police team rushed to […]
The Gurugram Police Commissioner has taken strict action following the disruption of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s convoy and a VIP security lapse on Friday. Taking serious cognisance of the matter, Police Commissioner Sibash Kabiraj issued show-cause notices to two Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) for negligence. Eighteen police personnel, including the Civil Lines […]
A complete bandh was observed across the Doaba region on Friday on a call given by the Qaumi Insaaf Morcha in support of the release of Bandi Singhs. Highways connecting Jalandhar with Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Pathankot and Kapurthala remained blocked, with supporters of the morcha sitting in the middle of the roads. All private educational […]
For the first time since parting ways with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in September 2020, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today batted for a reunion with its former partner saying the “people of Punjab wanted the SAD and the BJP to come together for the sake of peace and harmony in the state”. Making […]
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was shifted back to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Friday morning after undergoing a medical examination at the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) where doctors from privately owned Shifa International Hospital were also present, the government said. Earlier in the day, Khan’s international media spokesperson Zulfi Bukhari had […]
For a long time even after Independence, Vande Mataram was not accepted from the core of the heart by some people, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.Addressing a gathering of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at Siliguri, Shah recalled that despite the strategic significance of Siliguri Corridor (also known as the Chicken’s Neck), former […]
Two foreign-flagged commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian seafarers have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Somalia and Yemen this week. Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday asserted that all Indian nationals were safe. The incidents have renewed concerns over a resurgence of Somali piracy in the western Indian Ocean and […]
In a rare retraction on Friday, the President House withdrew a statement issued earlier in the day linking the cancellation of a customary Saturday event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with preparations for Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed India visit. Rahman’s visit has not yet been confirmed, with Bangladesh insisting on former Prime Minister Sheikh […]
After over seven hours of high drama outside the Parliament Street police station, with Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi refusing to leave until an FIR was registered over pellet gun injuries suffered by a 19-year-old student, Sahil Lochab, the Delhi Police finally registered a case on Friday evening. The FIR was registered under Section […]
Punjab has witnessed an explosive rise in traffic challans, with their number surging from just 53,973 in 2021 to 20.47 lakh in 2025, a nearly 38-fold increase in four years, before more than doubling again to 41.38 lakh in barely seven months of 2026. But behind this enforcement boom lies a striking paradox: While challans […]
After the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA), Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is set to hire a merchant banker to raise Rs 10,000 crore through a bond. The selected banker will be paid an arranger fee ranging from Rs 150 crore to Rs 177 crore. Earlier this week, The Tribune had highlighted that […]
A proposed meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was among the factors that led the Centre to deny political clearance to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s proposed visit to the US, top diplomatic sources told The Tribune on Friday. The MEA, however, did not officially spell out the reasons for withholding clearance, […]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal seeking quashing of a 2017 criminal defamation complaint against him. Badal had moved the apex court challenging an October 2025 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash the complaint and a March 2020 […]
In an unfortunate turn of events, three members of a family died in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Friday afternoon after a domestic dispute over a mobile phone ended in a sequence of fatal falls from a hilltop, police said. The tragedy unfolded in the Tisgaon area under the jurisdiction of Waluj MIDC in the afternoon, […]
As part of its post-Operation Sindoor transformation, the Indian Army on Friday announced the raising of a dedicated battalion for drone operations along the western front with Pakistan. The newly raised unit will operate under the command of the Army’s 11 Corps, headquartered in Jalandhar, Punjab. The Army has named these dedicated drone-operating units ‘Baaz […]
In a rare retraction on Friday, the President House withdrew a press statement that had linked the cancellation of a customary Saturday event at Rashtrapati Bhavan to the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Rahman’s visit is yet to be confirmed, with Bangladesh insisting on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition before the visit […]
A little girl from Arunachal Pradesh is winning hearts online for making a cute, but deep appeal to everyone. The girl, wearing a purple T-shirt and speaking innocently, starts by saying that a man asked her if she was a Chinese, to which she replied she was an Indian. In her baby talk, she explains, […]
A 105-year old murder convict will now be able to live as a free man after the Supreme Court on Friday closed the case against him and waived the remaining period of his life sentence, taking into account his age. Born in 1920 in West Bengal’s Malda district, Rasik Chandra Mondal was convicted in 1994 […]
SAD leader Bikram Majithia on Friday said the people of Punjab want the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP to reunite and the leadership of both parties will sit and talk. The situation will be clear in the future, Majithia said, adding that the two parties separated after the farm law controversy but now given […]
Super-emitters (SEs), which are vehicles that pollute far more than normal vehicles, account for only 11 per cent to 28 per cent of Punjab’s vehicular fleet. However, they contribute to more than 70 per cent of the state’s transport emissions. This high-emitter paradox is highlighted by a study titled ‘Pathways for Clean Transportation in Punjab’ […]
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday sat on a dharna outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) at Parliament Street Police Station after accompanying a student allegedly injured by pellets during the July 20 student protest, with the Congress accusing the Delhi Police of refusing to register […]
The Supreme Court on Friday modified its May 2025 verdict by reducing to one year the earlier mandatory requirement of three-year legal practice for law graduates for taking entry level judicial service examinations. However, the selected candidates will have to undergo training at the judicial academy and a further one year clerkship, a bench of […]
The Supreme Court has formed a five-member high-powered committee headed by former top court judge Justice R Subhash Reddy to examine allegations of police excesses against student protesters in Delhi recently and violence against police personnel. Also read: Ground report: Inside the CJP protest, surging crowds, police crackdown A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and […]
Panjab University will hold the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council elections on August 31, according to the schedule announced by the university on Thursday. As per the election schedule, filing of nominations will begin on August 24 from 9.30 am to 10.30 am, followed by scrutiny from 10.35 am. The list of candidates will be […]
The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday stayed the operation of notifications cancelling the appointment of government employees through 11th to 13th Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) examinations. The High Court also stayed the operation of the order cancelling the appointments of food safety officers. While hearing a petition against the government notifications, the court asked […]
Gangster Vinod Pannu alias Vinod Kana of Thurana village in Hisar district was shot dead by two unidentified assailants at the main entrance of the Hisar court complex on Thursday afternoon. According to reports, Pannu, along with some aides, was leaving the court complex after appearing in a criminal case. As he stepped out near […]
A video showing an Indian tourist confronting Army personnel over a road closure in the Drass area of Ladakh’s Kargil district has triggered a debate online, with retired Indian Army officer Lieutenant General KJS Dhillon responding to the woman’s remarks. According to a viral video, the incident took place on July 25 near the Minimarg […]
More than three months after the Supreme Court Collegium cleared the name of 10 advocates for elevation as Additional Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Centre on Thursday notified the appointment of nine, including Haryana Advocate-General Pravindra Singh Chauhan. They will be administered oath by Acting Chief Justice of the Punjab and […]
Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday said the party high command allowed him to skip the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting as he was to appear in an examination at Panjab University here. The meeting of the CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, was held in Delhi on Wednesday. Congress president Mallikarjun […]
A collection of 688 autographed reflections by Mahatma Gandhi on truth, ahimsa and service among other subjects to his close associate and freedom fighter Anand T Hingorani was sold for Rs 16.20 crore at a Saffronart auction, setting the world record for an Indian historical document sold at an auction. Written over a span of […]
A day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolved to sing only two stanzas of the National Song Vande Mataram in line with the party’s decision in 1937, the BJP slammed the move as ‘anti-national.’ Union Home Minister led the offensive against the Congress saying the Opposition party has again chosen “politics of appeasement over […]
Former Congress MP from Outer Delhi Sajjan Kumar, convicted of murder and abetment to murder in cases pertaining to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, died on Thursday. Safdarjung Hospital confirmed his death. Kumar was serving a life sentence in Tihar Jail for his involvement in the riots and was rushed to the hospital after he took […]
