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 […]
Punjab will introduce crop insurance for all marginal farmers from the next rabi season. The department of food and supplies has generated adequate funds that will be used for the purpose of insurance, without seeking any monetary help from the state government.
Minister for food and supplies Adesh Partap Singh Kairon said all modalities had been […]
After a bumper wheat crop earlier this year, Punjab and Haryana seem to be heading for a bumper paddy crop as well. Nearly 3.3 million tonnes of paddy was procured in both states till Tuesday evening.Officials from both states Wednesday said paddy arrivals in grain markets across the two states were in full swing.
A Punjab […]
The Congress-led UPA government has done for the SAD-BJP government what it did not do for its own Chief Minister - Capt Amarinder Singh. It has increased the wheat quota under the Antodaya scheme manifold to ensure the government can sustain the populist “aata-daal” (wheat-pulses) scheme, which was universally accepted to have become a white […]
The Congress on Monday put up a united show of strength at Lambi in Muktsar district in the heartland of Punjab’s Malwa region where former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh sounded the bugle for the party’s campaign for the next Lok Sabha elections.
Capt. Singh appeared to have picked up the threads from where he left them […]
Expressing deep concern and terming the case, concerning chargesheeted police officers still being allowed to continue in service, as extremely significant, a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government to take it seriously.
The case pertains to a suo moto notice taken by a division bench of the High […]
Telecom company Idea Cellular Ltd on Monday said it is scouting for partners to operate mobile phone services in Punjab and Karnataka, after the government asked the company to either surrender its licences for the two circles or those of its newly acquired unit, Spice Communications Ltd, to avoid overlapping.
“Policy is very clear. What will […]
Even as Punjab goes powerless for 6 to 10 hours everyday in summer months, the state government is planning to have air-conditioned bus terminals in various cities as part of major infrastructure projects worth Rs.250 billion to be executed in the next three years.
Chief secretary Ramesh Inder Singh, who on Monday presided over a meeting […]
This time it is the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal who’s getting a first hand taste of India’s famed – some may say notorious – babudom. TheCM’s office had issued a circular to all financial commissioners and principal secretaries as far back as mid-April this year directing them to submit the list of decisions […]