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Akal Takht Jathedar who had excommunicated the Dera Sacha Sauda start Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh from the Sikh group of people on charges of blasphemy today made an U-turn and exonerated him without securing his individual exterior before te clergy.

Heavy shower on Tuesday has caused extensive spoil to the paddy and basmati crop in the border districts of Amritsar and Tarn Taran.We are still assessing the spoil caused to the paddy and basmati crops, teams have been sent out for this task,” Amritsar chief agriculture officer Balwinder Singh Chinna told HT here on Wednesday.

Despite the one-day ban compulsory on the sale of non-vegetarian things during Jain festival of ‘Samvatsari’ on September 17 by the Ludhiana police commissionerate, different hotels and meat shops were found selling and serve meat and eggs on Thursday.

The economics and contract team of the municipal corporation on Friday approved 127 proposals out of 128, during a meeting held at Mayor House.The developmental project proposals are worth more than Rs 60 crore.MC secretary Hartej Singh established the development, but said the total estimate of the accepted projects was yet to be finalised.

In a conclusion that will envelop above 6.50 lakh government employees and pensioners, the Punjab cabinet on Thursday gave nod to “cashless health insurance scheme “replacing the offered policy of reimbursing medical expenses.The scheme would be made necessary for employees and pensioners,but it would be optional for All India Service Officers, s…[Read more]

The Supreme Court ordered a stay on the law that makes educational qualification required for contesting panchayat elections in Haryana.The three-phase elections to PRIs in Haryana, which has practically 72,000 posts in panchayat samitis and zila parishads, that will be held on October 4, 11 and 18.

The upcoming Punjab Vidhan Sabha assembly start September 18 will have four sittings.According to the uncertain programme issued by the Vidhan Sabha secretary on Wednesday, the House will get together on September 18 afternoon for obituary references.While September 19 and 20 would be holidays, the House will meet in the afternoon on September 21…[Read more]

After completed three years,now finally, Panjab University (PU) has finished its investigation against Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College,Hoshiarpur,Mahilpur recommending action against to the principal on the charges of misappropriating the University Grants Commission (UGC) money and production a fake suggestion to it.

The Panjab University status details has put the quantum of the pension cell scam at Rs 2.08 crore with the inspection of financial statement of the financial year 2013-14.The varsity is reproving daily pay clerk Pooja Bagga for the rip-off and has also got a case registered next to her for cheating and forgery. Her anticipatory bail application…[Read more]

The society centres which the police vacated following a long legal fight with a councilor are now weeping for awareness of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA). Congress councilor Kuljeet Singh Bedi, who fought the legal fight with the police to get all the 11 group of people centres vacated, maintain that all the centres are in…[Read more]

The Jalandhar leather manufacturing is in the doldrums. Annual global orders, which were worth Rs 850 crore two years ago, have come down to Rs 300 crore.All 56 units are running to 35 per cent of their capacity, as the Punjab Pollution Control Board had sealed their drums a year ago owing to improper functioning of the Common Effluent Treatment…[Read more]

Tension absorbed parts of the town after the management of Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Mission Road, reportedly razed a gurdwara on the school premises in the wee hours of Friday. Even as the organization later in the day claimed that it would construct another gurdwara at a cost of Rs 2 crore on the premises, agitated locals and members of…[Read more]

Attacking Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused it of indulging in “negative politics”, saying 40 MPs were “conspiring” and “blocking” parliamentary process, thereby holding back India’s development march.Addressing public rallies in Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) and Saharanpur (UP) as also at a function in Chandigarh, Modi targeted…[Read more]

A 14-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her house in Lalru in the wee hours of Thursday.The girl, a student of class XII, was alone in her house when she took the extreme step. Her father was away at work and her mother and brother at their native village in Bihar. The incident came to light only when her father…[Read more]

The defence counsel of Pooja Bagga, the main accused in the Rs 1.63 crore Panjab University pension cell scam, on Thursday indicated that high-rank PU officials were involved in the fraud. Urging the local district court to accept his client’s anticipatory bail, lawyer AS Gujral argued that a daily-wage clerk like Bagga could not have carried out…[Read more]

An Indian-American woman has become the first female to be appointed as the postmaster in Sacramento city of California in the last 166 years, a media report said.Jagdeep Grewal, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Panjab University (PU) in Chandigarh, started her career in postal services in 1988 as a window clerk.Grewal will…[Read more]

Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for the Olympics after 36 years. But despite the historic achievement, the team’s captain, Ritu Rani, is disappointed.“A lot of people have been congratulating us, but I don’t think it is enough. We’ll feel good when we get the same kind of attention that our men’s team gets, or that other sports team…[Read more]

Punjabi film ‘The Mastermind Jinda Sukha’, which was set to be released on September 11, has been banned in India.The film, which is based on lives of the assassins of former Army General Arun Kumar Vaidya, was previously granted clearance from the Censor Board on July 24, but has now been banned after the union home ministry and intelligence…[Read more]

Though the Election Commission claims to revise electoral rolls before every major election, more than 8 lakh ‘ghost’ voters have been detected in Punjab in the past five months. The ‘ghost’ or duplicate voters came to light during the linking of Aadhaar cards with elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs).
Though the process of linking the Aadhaar…[Read more]