Toronto, May 17: US-based Indian filmmaker Tirlok Malik is delighted after his Punjabi film "Khushiyaan" was selected for a screening at the first Punjabi International Film Festival (PIFF), starting May 18. The four-day festival will be held in Ontario province with events planned for the cities of Toronto, Brampton and Mississauga. "The ...

Hyderabad, May 17: Tightening the noose around YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the Andhra Pradesh government Thursday granted permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to attach the properties of his three companies while a special court directed CBI to provide copy of the first chargesheet to the ...

Lucknow, May 17: The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday released a road map - 'Samagra Vikas' - for overall development of the state, which aims to fulfil promises made by the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the recent state assembly elections. The long-term agenda of the vision document is aimed at better facilitation in ...

Chennai, May 17: The houses of former Tamil Nadu minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam, his relatives and his two personal assistants were Thursday raided by officials of the anti-corruption wing, the probe agency said. DMK leader and former agriculture minister Arumugam's house in Salem, around 330 km from here, was raided by vigilance ...

New Delhi, May 17: Lok Sabha members were in for a pleasant surprise Thursday when Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is fluent in Tamil and English, spoke a sentence in Bhojpuri, earning praise from Speaker Meira Kumar. Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to give Bhojpuri the ...

Agartala, May 17: India's three northeastern states of Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya would get their own full-fledged high courts by October this year as the required amendment bill was passed by both houses of parliament, an official here said Thursday. "With the passing of the necessary amendment bill by parliament, now the ...

New Delhi, May 17: Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday said it will support former Lok Sabha speaker P.A.Sangma for the president's post. Chief Minister and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik said he has also discussed the matter with AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa. "We will support Shri Sangma. ...

Chandigarh, May 16: The Punjab Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Commission Wednesday issued a notice to the Jalandhar police commissioner and sought a report within three weeks about a runaway husband who allegedly duped a New Zealand-based NRI woman. The NRI Commission issued the notice after taking suo moto notice of media reports about ...

Dubai, May 17: An Indian couple from Kerala, who came on a visit visa to the UAE and later entered Oman illegally, was arrested during a raid and deported to the Emirates, police said. The couple had reached Buraimi area of Oman through the Rowdha-Madham-Mahala route to visit their relatives and was ...

New Delhi, May 17: The government has decided to set up shelter homes for Indian women in distress in 17 countries, most of which are in labour intensive Gulf region. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, replying to a question in Lok Sabha, said his ministry has issued instruction to the ...