A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.
The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which […]
Despite the assertion of state Finance Minister that the financial position of Punjab was “grim”, SAD Working president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said the party would press the government to fulfill poll promises.
Sukhbir was addressing a press conference here after meetings of District Unit Presidents, General Council and Senior leaders ratified his appointment […]
CHIEF Minister Parkash Singh Badal today ordered the state government to revise the norms/rates for grant of relief for damage caused to the standing crops, houses and loss of human life in case of natural calamities.
The state government has revised the relief on account of damage to mature standing/harvested crops from Rs 2,000 to […]
PANJAB University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) submitted a representation to the Chief Minister of Punjab, Prakash Singh Badal, while he was in the varsity to attend the annual academic function today.
The representation states that teachers’ of the faculty have been demanding raise in retirement age from 60 to 62 years, that was recommended by UGC […]
INDIAN Oil Corporation (IOC) is planning to open its second auto LPG dispensing station (ALDS) in Chandigarh and eight more such refilling stations in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir soon, said sources.
IOC’s first auto gas dispenser has been operating in Sector 34, Chandigarh, for the last two years. In the first year it did […]
CHANDIGARH’S Parnita Garewal has made history by becoming the first Indian woman golfer to make the cut in a men’s professional event. The former India No. 1 amateur lady golfer achieved this feat during the Surya Nepal Masters at the majestic Gokarna Forest Golf Resort and Spa near Kathmandu on Thursday.
Her total read 165 […]
The status of the controversial Rs 106-crore land deal between the MLA’s society and Tata Housing Development Company has come under the legal eye.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notices to the state government, the Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation on a stay application filed by […]
THE Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal attended the annual academic function of Panjab University today.
On the occasion, medals and cash prizes were given to 158 students, of which 118 were girls. The PU Vice-Chancellor Prof R C Sobti welcomed the guests in chaste Punjabi.
Appealing to the CM to grant funds to the varsity, he […]
THE Panchkula police today claimed to have busted a flesh trade racket with the arrest of five Delhi-based girls, all in their 20s.
Besides, police have arrested 11 men, who are between 30 to 40 years of age. All of them were arrested from Comfort Hotel in Pinjore late last night. The police had got […]
Punjab Assembly adjourned sine die here today after passing the vote on account for three months of the coming financial year in the absence of the opposition Congress which had walked out during the zero hour dissatisfied with the reply of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on river water issue and on registration of case […]