Three persons were reported to have died and several were injured in an alleged grenade attack on a religious congregation in Amritsar on Sunday, police said.The grenade was lobbed by bike-borne perso...

A WhatsApp photograph flashed on Vijay Kumar's phone screen at 3am Saturday, confirming his worst fears -- his 18-year-old son Manish was one of the revellers mowed down by a train while they were wat...

Tight reinAll battles have winners and losers. But defeat can be hard. For many member of the Grand Old Party, the temptation to blame electronic voting machines as soon as the trends showed a BJP swe...

Kim A. Wagner’s recently-published Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre was hailed as “the best book I have ever read on the Empire” by the journalist, Sathnam Sanghera,...

Terror strikeSir — The Punjab police should be lauded for solving the case regarding the grenade attack on Nirankari Bhawan that took place recently in Amritsar. The chief minister of Punjab, Amarin...

Two bike-borne armed men forced their way into a Punjab prayer hall brimming with devotees on Sunday and tossed a grenade before speeding away, leaving three persons dead in an attack police said they...

Two bike-borne men snatched the handbag of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s niece Damayanti Ben Modi in north Delhi’s Civil Lines area on Saturday morning, police said. Damayanti, the daughter of ...

In the relationship of history with the past, it is generally believed that the total volume of the past, both remembered and not remembered, is much larger than history and that no amount of historic...

Alarmed by the train tragedy in Amritsar on Dussehra that left around 60 dead, Tatanagar railway police have started taking precautionary measures to prevent a similar incident along its tracks.They h...

The railways were not informed about the trackside Dussehra event, nor was permission sought from the civic body, officials said a day after a train mowed down 59 revellers during a Ravan Dahan near A...