For months, Dera Sacha Sauda has been a target of hatred and violence because of the controversial attire and mannerisms that its chief Ram Rahim Singh adopted to emulate 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh. Over a dozen people died and an attempt was made on Ram Rahim’s life after clashes broke out between Sikhs and [...]
Having been made to bite the dust by greenhorns during the Mohali Municipal Council elections, results of which were declared yesterday, the shell-shocked heavyweights today got down to the task of determining where did it went wrong. Most of them are of the view that the delimitation of wards carried out this time proved to [...]
Punjab Tuesday moves towards becoming the agriculture and dairy business centre of Reliance Industries’ retail foray, a Rs.50 billion (approx $1 billion) investment that will see creation of five major agri hubs in the state.
Despite opposition to the deal, the Punjab government had last month cleared the necessary land allocation for implementation of RIL’s [...]
A city court on July 29 sentenced a man to life imprisonment and his mother to five years in a case of kidnapping, rape and murder of a minor Dalit girl.
The duo were produced before the court of district and sessions judge Inderjit Kaushik, who sentenced Malkit Singh for life for rape and murder [...]
The Punjab Government has decided establish a special chair at Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar on the life and works of the freedom fighters and patriots who made supreme sacrifices during the Indian freedom struggle and also set up a suitable memorial somewhere at Chandigarh to perpetuate the memory of thousands of known and unknown [...]
There is a 405-km road network in Chandigarh, and 90 per cent of it is in good condition. As per the report submitted to the UT Administration by Rail India Technical and Economic Services Ltd (RITES), only 2 per cent of the total road length has poor road surface condition.
As per the report, [...]
The union urban development ministry’s move to resurrect the Rent Control Act attracted flak from property-owners in Chandigarh. The ministry had plans of resurrecting the Act first in the capital, and thereafter, in all major metros.
Setting different tariff bands for business and residential premises, a draft of the Rent Control Act was being prepared. [...]
Though the Punjab government observed the 67th martyrdom day of Shaheed Udham Singh today at a state level function in Sunam, its non seriousness in the matter gets reflected from its attention towards the memorial built in the Martyr’s memory at Rouza Sharif, Fatehgarh Sahib.
The entire government machinery and local political leaders today gathered as [...]
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using the easy reach of the SMS to highlight the ongoing power crisis in Punjab and put the ruling Congress on the mat.
Amritsar, Ludhiana and Moga have power cuts for four hours daily, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur for six hours and Ferozepur for 10 hours, says one of the [...]
THE Punjab Pensioners’ Welfare Association has claimed that the Punjab Finance Minister Surinder Singla has agreed for the acceptance of their pending demands, after a meeting between the minister and the association office-bearers led by president B S Gautam, held at Chandigarh on Thursday.
In a joint statement issued here today, the association’s senior vice [...]