Jaspreet Kaur

In order to check on “active” protesters, the state police have determined to maintain a register of repeat offenders, particularly those who participating in protest dharnas. Maintained the record of habitual petty offenders (called “dus numbaris”), in an area, the register on habitual protesters, mainly union leaders, will have their name,…[Read more]

Visiting delegates from SAARC nations evinced interest in rice and pharmaceuticals, besides other articles being grown and manufactured in the state at the Punjab International Trade Expo (PITEX), being organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, here today. “The quality of rice is good but the price is little higher. We are at a n…[Read more]

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), considered a dark horse in the state polity, is quietly preparing an army of volunteers through an almost two-month-long extensive training with focus on finding candidates for the 2017 state Assembly elections. The party aims at finding leaders from the masses through this orientation programme and introduce a new…[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]