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Though the Chandigarh Police has received a clean chit in the alleged encounter at Moga, the Sub-Inspector of UT Police, Rajdeep Singh, who suffered a bullet injury, is yet to get a clean chit to lead a normal life. While the S-I has resumed duty of an investigating officer at the Sector 39 police station, he says that he is walking with a…[Read more]

Punjab’s drug menace, a sore point between the two alliance partners Akali Dal and BJP, again led to a public showdown between the two. The occasion was the state level function to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking, where BJP leaders chose to maintain that the state had the highest drug abuse ratio, a fact…[Read more]

One person was killed and two others were injured when a bus rammed into an auto-rickshaw at Samrala Chowk here today, police said.The accident took place when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle because of a brake failure and then rammed into an auto coming from the opposite direction, they said.One occupant of the auto identified as…[Read more]

Punjab government on Thursday announced to raise compensation for families of debt-ridden farmers, who committed suicide, from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 3 lakh.The state has enhanced amount of compensation given to debt-ridden farmers, who have committed suicide, to Rs three lakh from earlier amount of Rs two lakh,” an official spokesperson of the…[Read more]

Expressing concern over poor language skills of English teachers of government schools, Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Thursday constituted a core group of experts to work out a long-term strategy to improve their English.Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman said the core group consisting of heads of 17 District…[Read more]

Punjab government will give incentives to the Medical Officers (MOs) opting for border area postings after appointment, Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani said here on Wednesday.Presiding over a meeting of the Civil Surgeons, he said that “the government will offer incentives to the Medical Officers who have opted for placements in the Border…[Read more]

Rains on Wednesday lashed few parts of Punjab and Haryana, with maximum temperatures remaining far below normal level in most parts of both the states.Union Territory Chandigarh had a high of 36.8 degrees Celsius, a MeT department report said today. Among other places in Haryana, Ambala, Hisar and Karnal settled at 35.2 degrees Celsius, 32…[Read more]

The Punjab government on Tuesday said there is no shortage of urea for the ongoing crop season, asking farmers not to be worried as the state has arranged adequate quantity of the fertiliser to meet their demands.State agriculture minister Tota Singh reviewed the preparation of agricultural department and supply of urea in a video conference with…[Read more]

An undertrial allegedly managed to escape from custody after his court hearing here following which three police personnel were arrested for dereliction of duty, an official said on Tuesday.Undertrial prisoner Supreet Singh alias Harry, lodged in Central Jail Amritsar, was brought to the court here for hearing in a criminal case yesterday, Senior…[Read more]

Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Monday assured its consumers that Punjab is power surplus and there would be no power cuts in the state this summer.Addressing a press conference here, PSPCL chairman cum managing director KD Chaudhri expressed happiness over the power corporation having supplied over 10,500 MW power on June 20. He…[Read more]

Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa today asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to inform people about the number of families of farmers he had visited since 2007 in the state who had committed suicide.Bajwa, in a statement, asserted that with the two successive visits of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to Punjab, the sham…[Read more]

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said that it is a matter of pride for India that Yoga has been internationally recognized by more than 170 countries across the globe and is being celebrated in varied manner worldwide.

A SpiceJet flight with 159 people on board suffered a tyre burst while it was taxiing for take-off at Amritsar airport on Sunday evening.The Mumbai-bound flight SG345 from Srinagar was scheduled to take-off at 5 pm, official sources at Guru Ramdas international (Rajasansi) Airport said.As the aircraft moved on the runway, one of its tyres burst…[Read more]

Punjab and Haryana will get widespread rainfall with moderate winds next week and farmers have been asked to withhold the sowing of pigeon pea, the wather serveice of a leading agricultural varsity said on Friday.There is possibility of change in weather from June 21 night. Widespread rainfall with moderate winds will occur in the region between…[Read more]

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was on Friday greeted with slogans of ‘Rajnath Singh Go back’ and ‘Stop discrimination against Sikhs’, while addressing the 350th foundation day of Sri Anandpur Sahib.The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) activists shouted slogans against the Union Minister as soon as the leader stood up to address the function…[Read more]

An 81-feet Sikh military emblem in this Punjab town is quite a hit among the devotees and tourists, officials said on Thursday.Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal accompanied by his daughter-in-law and union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur on Wednesday unfurled the recently installed 81-foot ‘Khanda’ (double-edged sword) at Panja Piara…[Read more]

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the family of Punjab farmer Surjit Singh, who had committed suicide on June 10 by consuming a poisonous substance.Rahul reached the Dadu Majra village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, early on Thursday morning and offered condolences to the grieving family. He was with them for over 30 minutes,…[Read more]

The Municipal Corporation has deducted the expenses incurred on the family members of nine councillors, including the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, during the study tour last year from their monthly honorarium. Recently, the MC had issued recovery notices to nine councillors, who had taken their family members along with them on the study tour to…[Read more]

Local lad Himanshu Gupta has done the city proud by bagging the seventh position in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced, 2015. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the names of the top 10 rank holders this evening.Himanshu is a student of Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. He said nine hours of study and one hour of…[Read more]

The Punjab government has built toilets for 33 lakh rural families as the state aims to become the first in India to be free from open defecation.The Punjab government has constructed toilets for 33 lakh rural families under the ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which has elimination of open defecation as one of its objectives,” a state government…[Read more]