Priyanka

Partaking in ‘Digital India’ week, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday launched the state Portal ePMS (Electronic Projects Management System) to fast track infrastructural development.The project was kicked off to enhance efficiency, bring transparency, boost the investor confidence, revive the investment cycle, eliminate the…[Read more]

A Congress MP on Saturday opposed Punjab government’s move of setting up AIIMS at Bathinda instead of Kapurthala and termed it as “discrimination against Doaba region.”The state government is discriminating against Doaba. When the Centre had announced that AIIMS would come up in Doaba region, even land was identified for it in Kapurthala district.…[Read more]

Punjab police on Tuesday claimed to have rescued five children following the arrest of a man who allegedly abducted them and forced them into begging.The accused, identified as Raju was nabbed near Dholewal Chowk. He allegedly used to push the children to beg after kidnapping them from various places, police said .Five children of age group 10-15…[Read more]

The Punjab Police on Tuesday used water cannons to disperse NSUI workers, who were protesting against the state government.The NSUI was demanding that action be taken against the drug menace in the state.

A 19-year-old Dalit boy was found hanging from a tree at Punjab’s Khara village following which five persons, including two panchayat members, were booked for the alleged murder, police said on Monday.Body of the deceased was found hanging yesterday from the tree in the village here, they said.The youth had eloped with a farmer’s minor daughter,…[Read more]

Police have seized 53 illegal weapons, 17 fake firearms licenses besides several documents including duplicate NOCs for purchasing weapons and 17 fake stamps of District Magistrates of various districts in Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.Addressing the media here, Paramraj Singh Umranangal Inspector General (Bhatinda Zone) today said…[Read more]

India’s celebrated boxing champion Vijender Singh, who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is set to join the professional ranks. If Vijender (29) turns pro, he would be unable to represent India in the amateurs-only events such as the Olympics or Asian and Commonwealth Games.
While the boxing fraternity seems to be aware of V…[Read more]

Hot weather conditions prevailed in most parts of Haryana and Punjab on Saturday, even as few areas in the states received rainfall.According to MeT department here, Union Territory Chandigarh recorded a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, one notch above normal.Among other places in Haryana, Ambala recorded maximum temperature of 39.1 degrees, two…[Read more]

A Youth Akali Dal leader allegedly committed suicide here following which police today booked seven persons, including two senior leaders of the ruling Akali Dal for abetment of suicide.Santokh Singh Sukhana, National General Secretary of the Youth Akali Dal, was on Sunday found hanging in a bathroom of a hotel, SHO Kotwali Inspector Dharm Pal…[Read more]

It was yet another dark day in the history of Tricity as it lost another artist of honour, Shiv Singh. Singh was diabetic and a heart patient too. His family informed that he had undergone two stent surgeries, the last one in 2004. On Tuesday he had a massive heart attack and was admitted to a private hospital in panchkula. However he could not…[Read more]

An 18-year-old youth, who had committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance on June 15, was being blackmailed by a man who tricked the victim over phone imitating a woman’s voice, revealed the FIR. The victim, Baljinder Singh, 18, had told his his parents that was going for work in a factory at Derabassi but instead, he left for his…[Read more]

From tenses to spellings, every thing they wrote was wrong, resulting in a rap on their knuckles from Education Minister Dalit Singh Cheema. They may now find themselves back in schools to unlearn the wrong.
Sample these: “Leak of interest”, “Staff of our school was vacant” and “Our school has situated remote area”.
These are some of the shocking…[Read more]

Renowned artist and sculptor Shiv Singh, who had been ailing for the past few days, died at a Panchkula hospital this morning. He was 77. Singh, who suffered a heart failure, was battling cancer. A painter and designer, Shiv Singh was born in 1938 at Hoshiarpur and studied at the Punjab College of Arts, first in Shimla and then in Chandigarh.

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]

Gurdeep Singh Khera, convicted in two separate cases under TADA in 1996 and 2001, was brought to Punjab from Karnataka tonight. He was brought in a train that stopped at the Ludhiana station for a few minutes en route to Amritsar.
Khera waived at his supporters who were holding placards demanding his release from the jail. Khera said he was happy…[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. The core group consisting of heads of 17 District Institute of Education Training (DIET), heads of 12…[Read more]

A Panjab University panel has approved a fee hike of 2.5% for first-year classes at its colleges in Chandigarh for the 2015-16 session. The hike proposal was approved in a meeting of the PU’s fee committee on Wednesday that was chaired by dean (university instruction) A K Bhandari. The proposal is yet to be approved by the university’s…[Read more]

Chandigarh was named among the 100 cities selected nationwide under the Central government’s ambitious smart city mission, which was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday.Getting funds under the mission seems not an easy job and whether the city will be selected in the list of 20 cities in phase-1 will depend upon the p…[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]