Amit Sood

Punjab Government on 31 August 2013 declared Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala as Smoke-Free districts in the state. The declaration was made based on the study conducted by PGIMER, which revealed the absence of active smoking in more than 96.4 percent of public places in Kapurthala and 91.3 percent in Hoshiarpur districts. The PGIMER was entrusted with…[Read more]

Former SAD leader Kharaiti Lal Katna and his daughter-in-law Monika Katna, who is a municipal councillor, today joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during the ‘Punjab Jodo’ campaign here today.

The Punjab Police today promoted policemen who displayed “valour and bravery” in neutralising the three militants who attacked the Dinanagar police station on July 27.

If leaders in the state Congress are to be believed, Manpreet Badal, the estranged nephew of CM Parkash Singh Badal, is set to formally join the Congress. Manpreet, who was expelled from the SAD in 2010, had floated People’s Party of Punjab.

Though the Chandigarh Administration is allotting tenements under the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme-2006 to slum dwellers, a wage earner from Mauli Jagran is running from the pillar to post to get the allotment done for his bedridden son Raj Sharma.

As the Union Ministry of Urban Development has chosen Chandigarh among 98 cities for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Smart City Mission, the UT Administration will now hire a consultant to prepare a smart city proposal to ensure the City Beautiful makes it to the stage two of the competition and finds a place among top 20 smart cities of t…[Read more]

Fatehgarh Sahib has become the first district in the state where all information related to arms licences and weapons is being uploaded and digitisation has been made mandatory. The district administration had initiated the campaign, said Deputy Commissioner Kamaldeep Singh Sangha. The NIC has developed a software for the project. The Centre has…[Read more]

High drama prevailed on the Punjab Technical University (PTU) campus on Tuesday when its employees created a ruckus after they came to know that the varsity authorities had ‘secretly’ transferred Rs 75 crore to the newly set up Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University in Bathinda.The employees under the banner of the PTU Mulazam Front wer…[Read more]

Four persons wearing police uniforms allegedly looted Rs 1.68 crore from a vehicle of a private bank near Nanksar village on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur national highway, about 45 km from here on Monday, police said.The armed men came in a car and stopped the van, which was carrying cash to Ferozepur following which they looted the cash box at…[Read more]

In view of heavy rains which have lashed many parts of Punjab over the past few days, authorities at the Ranjit Sagar Dam have sounded an alert for villagers residing near the banks of River Ravi.
The water level of the dam today touched 523.90 metres as against the storage capacity of 527.91 metres, the highest this season, according to the control room.

From tenses to spellings, every thing they wrote was wrong, resulting in a rap on their knuckles from Education Minister Dalit Singh Cheema. They may now find themselves back in schools to unlearn the wrong.
Sample these: “Leak of interest”, “Staff of our school was vacant” and “Our school has situated remote area”.
These are some of the shocking…[Read more]

Renowned artist and sculptor Shiv Singh, who had been ailing for the past few days, died at a Panchkula hospital this morning. He was 77. Singh, who suffered a heart failure, was battling cancer. A painter and designer, Shiv Singh was born in 1938 at Hoshiarpur and studied at the Punjab College of Arts, first in Shimla and then in Chandigarh.