Supreme Court castigated Punjab’s AAP govt for expanding the eligibility criteria for availing 15% NRI quota in admissions to state-run and private medical and dental colleges to include ‘wards’ of NRIs and termed this a “fraud on the education...

Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is set to walk out of jail again ahead of yet another election after the Election Commission approved his parole petition. This will be his third temporary release in the past nine...

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann inducted five new ministers into his cabinet on Monday.

With the Haryana Assembly elections nearing, political parties are trying to employ every measure possible to woo voters, with the ruling BJP and the chief opposition party, Congress, making big promises to the people.

All parties in Haryana are expected to release their full list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections as Thursday marks the last day to file nominations for the polls, which will be held in a single phase on October 5.

Talks between Congress and AAP for a tie-up in Haryana collapsed, with Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit declaring candidates for 20 seats, including 12 for which Congress has already announced its nominees.

The ruling BJP in Haryana released its second list of 21 candidates for the state Assembly elections, dropping seven sitting MLAs, including two ministers and state party president Mohan Lal Badoli.

The Election Commission rescheduled the polling date in Haryana to Oct 5 to secure the voting rights of the state’s sizable Bishnoi community, and accordingly revised the counting date for both Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir to Oct 8.

Five Sikh high priests pronounced SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal guilty of religious misconduct, or “tankhaiya”, in a verdict that requires him to appear before the Akal Takht and seek forgiveness for unspecified “mistakes” when his party was...