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In a quiet move, Punjab council of ministers allowed Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) to mortgage government properties to raise `350 crore loan for the construction of three central jails, according to official sources. Even as the proposal mooted by deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who also holds the housing and…[Read more]

Punjab Government, in the recent past, has registered five cases with regard to spurious pesticides used to control whitefly pest attack on cotton in the Malwa belt of the State. Stating this, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal directed that samples of pesticide used to tackle whitefly pest be taken from various pesticides distributors across the…[Read more]

Punjab BJP in-charge and MP Prabhat Jha, who visited the site for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Chandigarh on September 11, claimed that the rally will give a new dimensions to the development of northern states. Jha, along with Punjab BJP chief Kamal Sharma, Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon, former Minister Tiksha Sud, and o…[Read more]

Until the international flights begin operations from what is called the Chandigarh international airport — new terminal and major part of the airstrip in SAS Nagar notwithstanding — the real economic potential of this muchneeded facility in Punjab will remain untapped. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the international civ…[Read more]

A committee led by chief secretary Sarvesh Kaushal stated in recommendation to chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday that the state government would even pay the `60-crore interest on these loans. The mills will repay the loans in seven years and start paying interest after three years. The cabinet will take a decision on the…[Read more]

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal sought more funds from the centre under the Smart City project besides announcing construction of an elevated road in the city at a cost of Rs 1100 crore. While addressing a press conference here, Mr Badal said the centre should allot at least Rs 2,500 crore for Ludhiana because an amount of Rs…[Read more]

An appeal has been filed in the Punjab and Haryana high court challenging single judge order on Punjab Pre Medical Entrance Test (PMET2015). The petitioners, including an SAS Nagar resident, have sought quashing of the single judge order. The petitioners have also sought directions to Baba Farid University of health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, to…[Read more]

Though residents across the state are reeling under the stray dog menace, the Punjab government has managed to get rid of over four lakh stray dogs in the last three years, at least on paper. The state government’s affidavit in the Punjab and Haryana high court stating that Punjab has around 60,000 stray dogs has left many animal rights a…[Read more]

Aiming to impart technological skills to nearly one lakh unemployed youths in a phased manner in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal asked the State Technical Education and Industrial Training department to engage world class agencies for the purpose. Badal, presiding over a high-level meeting to finalise the modalities of the programme to…[Read more]

Hectic efforts are on in the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to grab the post of State party chief after the declaration of November 20 as deadline to elect the new State president. The current incumbent, Kamal Sharma, is facing opposition from both outside and inside the party after the alleged involvement of his close aides in…[Read more]

Punjab Local Bodies, Medical Education and Research Minister Anil Joshi demanded the setting up of a super specialty hospital at Nanded Sahib in Maharashtra. Joshi, in a communiqué to the Union Health Minister JP Nadda, has supported the demand raised by Rajya Sabha member Avinash Rai Khanna saying that a large number of pilgrims daily come to…[Read more]

Mr. Janmeja Singh Sekhon, the PWD Minister, Punjab, informed here today that the dispute pertaining to stretch of road between Machiwara and Rahon on the Khanna-Nawansahar road, near village Udhowal has been successfully resolved and soon the PWD department would develop the stretch into a road, giving a big relief to the commuters as the Malwa…[Read more]

State Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa, in a public rally negated the role of Captain Amarinder Singh in ending the water sharing agreements during the latter’s tenure as Punjab CM. In a development that’s bound to start spark another war of words, Bajwa, while obliquely referring to Amarinder, said “not one individual” but the entire Congress…[Read more]

Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh accused the Badal family of “misusing” the money of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and gave a clarion call to the people of Punjab urging them to rid the State of the Badals. “Not only have they (Badals) looted and robbed Punjab all these years and turned it bankrupt, they…[Read more]

In a significant decision, Transport Department has decided to provide application forms on nominal fee to the public of the state for driving licenses. Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Transport Minister Ajit Singh Kohar said that it has come to the notice of the department that some miscreants are sailing these forms on higher rates…[Read more]