New Delhi: Opening another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that few Chief Ministers, including him, were not allowed to carry mobile phones to the Inter-State Council meet chaired by the PM in the national capital recently. “They made few a Chief Ministers, …

Chandigarh: Former Indian hockey captain and Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh, who has been suspended by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), is reportedly mulling to join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Punjab Assembly Elections 2017. The SAD said in a statement that its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, …

The prospect of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) set off tremors in the Congress camp, but the party not only betrayed the signs, its Punjab chief Captain Amarinder Singh went ahead and invited him to join the Congress. As the party waited anxiously for Sidhu’s next …

Edmonton (ATB): Vivek Ahuja bagged BMO Diamond Club Award third time in a row and got placed among top 5% in the country. This award commenced since last three years. Earlier, he had secured Best-of-the-Best award for five consecutive years. BMO has strict criteria for the presentation of Diamond Club …

Mississauga’s LRT will do for the city what the subway did for Toronto, creating a much denser, tightly knit place than its suburban past. Big skies, wide lanes, lowrise sprawl — that’s the post-’60s identity of Mississauga, burned into the GTA psyche. But this month marked a historic step in …

Persistent rains are being blamed for cumulative attendance of just 1,088,000 at the 10-day show that ended Sunday, the lowest it has been since 1994, when 1,082,000 came through the turnstiles CALGARY—The Calgary Stampede recorded its lowest attendance in 22 years, organizers of the event said Monday, dealing yet another …

Urging players not to trespass for the sake of “catching them all,” signwriter compares game to hammer pants, Crystal Pepsi and George W. Bush. In a “get off my lawn” sign for our modern times, a Vancouverite tried to shoo Pokemon Go players away with an appeal to “seriously think …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s state-run news agency says courts have ordered 85 generals and admirals jailed pending trial over their roles in a botched coup attempt. Dozens of others were still being questioned. Anadolu Agency said Tuesday that those formally arrested include former air force commander Gen. Akin Ozturk, …

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plunder charge against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her immediate release from nearly five years of hospital detention. The justices voted 11-4 to grant Arroyo’s petition seeking to dismiss the plunder case before the special anti-graft …

New Delhi: It’s a massive setback to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in connection with defamation case against him in which he blamed RSS for assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Flaying Rahul Gandhi, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked him to apologise or face trial for blaming RSS for assassination of Mahatma …