Walnut farmer Sarabjit (Sarb) Johl was 13 when he migrated with his parents to the US in the early 1960s. Today, he presides over a 1,000 acre farm and a growers' collective that recorded exports of $20 million last year. The icing on the cake, as it were, came earlier this year when he was named Agriculturist of the Year by the California State Fair....
It is a long weekend for the employees of the government-owned banks and general insurance companies in Tamil Nadu and other parts of the country, starting October 8. ...
One of th e amendments proposed to the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act is to cap third-party liability at Rs 10 lakh in accident cases, according to insurance industry sources. Currently, the liability is unlimited....

Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has declared a virtual war on the people of Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday....
Kashmir's season of pleasure and plenty, the autumn, is here, but alas, the tragedy of the beleaguered valley this year has overshadowed everything that is good about the golden-brown season....
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday offered a golden crown worth Rs.3.5 crore to Hindu goddess Bhadrakali in Warangal. ...
A day after resigning from the BJP, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur on Sunday questioned the party's silence on the mafia rule in Punjab. ...

Dozens of US Republican leaders have abandoned presidential nominee Donald Trump after the release of a video showing him speaking about women in vulgar sexual terms, delivering a punishing blow to his campaign and plunging the party into crisis just a month before the election. ...
With India ratifying the world's first comprehensive climate agreement earlier this month, another global treaty that eventually aims to phase out a heat-trapping substance -- hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs - and replace them with climate-friendly alternatives, will require India's leadership role, say environmentalists. ...
So the Sidhu couple -- cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and his doctor-turned-politician wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu -- have finally exited the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)....