Three members of Awaaz-e-Punjab on Friday said they will attend the special session of the Punjab Assembly on November 16 on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue and thereafter resign as lawmakers.
A teacher of a government school allegedly raped a 15-year-old student twice by threatening to fail her in exams in Mirjapur village in Kota, police said today.
Congress Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded imposition of President's Rule in the state in the wake of the SYL verdict and sought early elections, claiming Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal may try to create trouble to further his vested political interests.
Income Tax and Central Excise Intelligence sleuths are conducting raids at jewellery outlets across Tamil Nadu following information that there were heavy gold purchases after the demonetisation of high-value currencies.
In a setback to Punjab, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional its 2004 law intended to deny Haryana its share of Sutlej-Yamuna water
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said India should say it will use its nuclear powers "responsibly" instead of stressing on "no first use", but stressed that this was his personal view.