Daljeet

The state government is all set to further change the look of the main entrance to the Golden Temple in sync with the design of its ambitious project Golden Temple Entrance Plaza. For this, the government has evacuated the shopkeepers who were running their business on items like ‘kara’, ‘kangha’, ‘kirpan’ and religious books on either side of the…[Read more]

After a month-long probe into the kidney racket, the Jalandhar police have booked National Kidney Hospital doctor Rajesh Aggarwal and his wife Deepa Aggarwal. The SIT team comprising Alka Meena, ADCP, Headquarters, J Elanchezhian, ADCP, Crime, AS Power, ADCP, and SHO Navdeep today interrogated the doctor couple for around seven hours at Police…[Read more]

Depot holders in Bathinda are supplying loose and adulterated wheat to the beneficiaries of the Atta-Dal scheme and are also asking them to cough up extra charges for gunny bags, thereby openly flouting regulations. Beneficiaries, who fail to furnish their Aadhaar cards, are also being denied the supply. Although the government has clearly laid…[Read more]

Punjab will get just 40 per cent of its total requirement of finance for clearing dues of sugarcane growers, in the Rs6,000 crore package for cane growers approved by the Union Government in June. While almost all sugar mills in Punjab – nine cooperative and seven private — have already paid 80 per cent of the dues to the farmers, together the…[Read more]

Veteran Congress leader Capt Amarinder Singh today launched his “Mission-2017” campaign in Faridkot district. The former Chief Minister and his supporters projected him (Amarinder) as the best-suited candidate for the chief minister’s post for the 2017 Assembly elections. Making indirect reference to his rivals in the party, Amarinder said only…[Read more]

The BJP, which has been hitherto confronting its coalition partner and long-term ally—the SAD — on terror links and drugs, seems to have been caught on the wrong foot with its several leaders getting booked in similar cases over the past sometime. In the latest development, BJP (Rural) Minority Morcha district president Jarnail Singh (alias Jud…[Read more]

Even though the health department is taking a number of steps to promote institutional deliveries (births), non-institutional ones are still taking place in Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s home district Muktsar. Data procured from the district administration revealed that till July end this year, 193 non-institutional deliveries took place a…[Read more]

The Moga-Barnala National Highway-71 was damaged between Baude and Badhni Kalan villages about 20 km from the district headquarters earlier this week, but neither the district administration nor the national highway wing of the Public Works Department have initiated repair work. Local people said the highway stretch had caved in due to heavy…[Read more]

Even as the state government has been holding business summits and offshore industrial meets to encourage investment in the state, at least 10 per cent of the local manufacturers have had to shut down operation in the past two years due to market slowdown and no government help. President of the Jalandhar Focal Point Extension Association Narinder…[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]

Under the banner of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Rajewal), thousands of farmers held a demonstration here today to seek action against private sugar mills allegedly playing foul with sugarcane growers in the state. In a memorandum submitted at the office of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, BKU leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said that action should be…[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]

Narinder Kashyap, general secretary, BSP and Rajya Sabha member, today called the BJP, Congress, Akali Dal and AAP anti-farmer and anti-Dalit at a rally held to seek support for the 2017 assembly elections.

The BJP’s protest against the Congress over disruption of the Monsoon session in the Lok Sabha got a feeble response, here today. Though senior leaders, including union minister Vijay Sampla, Jammu MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, state minister Bhagat Chunni Lal, CPS KD Bhandari and former minister Manoranjan Kalia, attended the rally, the gathering r…[Read more]

Around 54,400 bags of wheat stored in open plinths by the Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation (PAFC) at Nihalsinghwala in Moga district were damaged due to rain and adverse weather conditions. Insiders in the PAFC revealed that the huge quantity of wheat got damaged due to negligence of a few staff members against whom an inquiry had already been…[Read more]