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Issuing notice of motion to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and another respondent for October 15, Justice Amol Rattan Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today made it clear that the selection of linemen shouldn’t be finalised. “If the selection has already been finalised, appointment letters be not issued, pursuant the…[Read more]

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today announced a monthly pension of Rs2,000 for war widows in the state. He also announced free bus travel for them. The Chief Minister presided over a function held to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Indo-Pak war at Asal Uttar village near Khemkaran, He said the government had already decided to enhance…[Read more]

The state government today set up a high-level committee to look into complaints of alleged purchase of spurious insecticides and pesticides. The government was under pressure from the Opposition that has been seeking a probe into the matter. Leaders such as former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Aam Aadmi’s Bhagwant Mann and Suchha S…[Read more]

Family members of 11-year-old Vidhu Jain’s, who was burnt alive on September 30, 2013, in Malerkotla, today met Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in Delhi. They briefed him about the case and the role of the police.

Even as the Central and state governments intend to make Amritsar a world-class city under the National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) and announced crores for maintaining its rich cultural heritage, its existing inheritance has been crying for attention.

ASI Kewal Krishan, posted at Dhar Kalan area, complained of chest pain while on duty last evening and was shifted to a civil hospital here, police said.

He died during treatment, they said.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the top brass of state government to explore the feasibility of setting a state-of-the-art partition museum in the holy city Amritsar. The proposed museum would depict enormous mental agony and trauma faced by the countrymen in general and Punjabis in particular during country’s partition in 1947.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court wants to know the number of destitute children getting benefit of schemes in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. A Division Bench of the High Court has also called for information on the total expenditure incurred under the schemes. “The States of Punjab and Haryana as well as the Union Territory of Chandigarh are d…[Read more]

The controversy pertaining to the audio tape leak of the interaction between Aam Aadmi Party’s Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann and party’s suspended leader Dr Dharamvira Gandhi took a new turn with the latter claiming that AAP leaders desirous of being the future chief ministerial candidate might be behind the leak. Dr Gandhi, in a fresh post on his Fac…[Read more]

With steady rise in the number of cancer patients in the state, the Punjab government is likely to bring in legislation, making it mandatory for one-third of the tax on cigarettes and bidis to be used to provide aid to cancer patients. The matter is expected to come up for discussion in the Cabinet meeting, scheduled for September 10. The…[Read more]

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has said Rs100 crore sanctioned by the Centre to develop Ludhiana as a smart city is not enough. The state government has already sanctioned Rs600 crore for Ludhiana’s development, he said. Sukhbir, who was in the city today to lay stones of certain projects, claimed by 2020, the residents would witness a sea c…[Read more]

The race for top state Bharatiya Janata Party post has begun following the announcement of schedule of organisational elections by the party. Avinash Rai Khanna, chief election officer of the Bharatiya Janata Party, yesterday announced to complete the election process by November 20 in all states.

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha is likely to be convened for five days, between September 18 and 22. Effectively, the session will be held only on three days, September 18 and then September 21 and 22.

Aam Aadmi Party’s national speaker and Punjab affairs in charge Sanjay Singh today gave a clean chit to Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on the matter of audio tape leak. He said it was a normal conversation between two of the party’s MPs and that did not call for any disciplinary action against Mann.

The upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state capital on September 11 has rekindled the hope of a fiscal package for the state among top functionaries. The visit has also ignited a debate regarding the transfer of Chandigarh and Punjabi speaking areas to the state. The issue has been hanging fire since late 1960s. The focus will…[Read more]

Punjabi University, Patiala, is in the eye of a storm over re-employment of 76 professors and assistant professors against UGC norms and at the cost of unemployed youth. The state Audit Department has not been clearing the salary of the re-employed teachers for the past few months due to the violation of norms.

The state is all set to initiate ‘Operation Sutlej clean-up’ on the pattern of the Ganga project. This is the first time that any river in the state would be cleaned.

Sukhchain Singh, a farmer from Nihala Khilcha, is a worried man. His entire crop in Dona Telu Mal was washed away in floods last month when the Bhakra Dam authorities released excess water. Incessant rain upstream had filled the dam to the brim. Sukhchain, who has four daughters and two sons, one of whom is differently abled, said, “I had t…[Read more]

Punjab Education Minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema today announced the names of 38 teachers, who will be bestowed with prestigious state awards while 14 teachers will be given appreciation letters on Teachers’ Day at a state-level function at the CGC, Landran, on September 5. Five PES cadre officers would also be honoured with appreciation letters f…[Read more]

All trains running on the Pathankot-Amritsar track were halted for three hours today after calls about bombs being planted on the track were received here. A phone call from the Divisional Manager, Ferozepur, to the control rooms of the Gurdaspur and Pathankot police in the forenoon today claiming that a bomb was planted by militants somewhere on…[Read more]