Sushma Verma

A 14-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her house in Lalru in the wee hours of Thursday.The girl, a student of class XII, was alone in her house when she took the extreme step. Her father was away at work and her mother and brother at their native village in Bihar. The incident came to light only when her father…[Read more]

The defence counsel of Pooja Bagga, the main accused in the Rs 1.63 crore Panjab University pension cell scam, on Thursday indicated that high-rank PU officials were involved in the fraud. Urging the local district court to accept his client’s anticipatory bail, lawyer AS Gujral argued that a daily-wage clerk like Bagga could not have carried out…[Read more]

An Indian-American woman has become the first female to be appointed as the postmaster in Sacramento city of California in the last 166 years, a media report said.Jagdeep Grewal, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Panjab University (PU) in Chandigarh, started her career in postal services in 1988 as a window clerk.Grewal will…[Read more]

Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for the Olympics after 36 years. But despite the historic achievement, the team’s captain, Ritu Rani, is disappointed.“A lot of people have been congratulating us, but I don’t think it is enough. We’ll feel good when we get the same kind of attention that our men’s team gets, or that other sports team…[Read more]

Following a meeting of the Sikh high priests here today, the Akal Takht directed the SGPC to investigate all the aspects of Baba Wadbhag Singh controversy. They also decided that in future Akal Takht will not be approached directly for consideration over various issues. They said the matter would be routed through the Dharam Parchar Committee.

Hours before the court pronounces the quantum of sentence, the six accused in the DSP Balraj Singh Gill murder case attacked three persons in the Central Jail here today.

Just about 10 days after a Single Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled out re-examination for PMET 2015, a Division Bench today made it clear that the admissions were not to be finalised for the time being.

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]

Putting all speculation of a split between the Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP to rest, the national vice-president of the BJP and party’s in charge of Punjab affairs, Prabhat Jha, said the alliance between the two parties was the “strength for the nation”.

Two years back, octogenarian Jaskaran Singh (name changed on request) was detected with last-stage cancer. The doctor advised him to make his last will as he had a few months left.

Issuing notice of motion to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and another respondent for October 15, Justice Amol Rattan Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today made it clear that the selection of linemen shouldn’t be finalised.

Punjabi film ‘The Mastermind Jinda Sukha’, which was set to be released on September 11, has been banned in India.The film, which is based on lives of the assassins of former Army General Arun Kumar Vaidya, was previously granted clearance from the Censor Board on July 24, but has now been banned after the union home ministry and intelligence…[Read more]

Though the Election Commission claims to revise electoral rolls before every major election, more than 8 lakh ‘ghost’ voters have been detected in Punjab in the past five months. The ‘ghost’ or duplicate voters came to light during the linking of Aadhaar cards with elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs).
Though the process of linking the Aadhaar…[Read more]

In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Chandigarh International Airport on September 11 for its inauguration, the entire area on the Mohali side has been turned into a fortress. According to sources, nearly 1,500 policemen, including senior police officers, have been deputed in and around the airport and its vicinity.Special n…[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]

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu’s seemingly neverending wait is finally over. After spending countless hours, covering thousands of miles on the flight and enduring sleepless nights over a possible chance to wear India colours, the Mohali goalkeeper finally realised his much-awaited dream.On Tuesday evening, before the kick-off of the 2018 Fifa World Cup q…[Read more]

The state government’s move to transfer some colleges affiliated with IK Gujral Punjab Technical University (PTU), Kapurthala, to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh University, Bathinda, has put the students in a fix.The state government through a notification on June 30 ordered that 103 colleges situated in Bathinda, Barnala, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, F…[Read more]

Theatre artist Zulfiqar Khan had been sexually exploiting some students of his NGO Theatre Age since 2002, submitted the police in the challan filed before a local court in Chandigarh on Tuesday.Zulfiqar, director of Theatre Age, who is behind bars since his arrest in July, sexually exploited at least five youngsters, including a minor, in the…[Read more]