New Delhi, March 27 Parliament on Monday passed a bill that seeks to decriminalise suicide attempt by mentally-ill people and provides for the right to better healthcare for people suffering from mental illness. ‘The Mental Healthcare Bill’ also has a provision to protect and restore the property rights of theRead More

Jaipur, March 27 A 22-year-old girl was allegedly burnt alive after she along with family members protested over a road passing through her fields for which removal of trees was underway at Hariya-Dhana village of Jodhpur’s Borunda Tehsil on Saturday afternoon. Seriously burnt Lalita was rushed to a government hospitalRead More

Chandigarh, Former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday took oath as MLAs in the Speaker’s chamber. The two said they would oppose the proposed bill on appointment of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries, if and when it was brought in the House byRead More

Amritsar, March 27: A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by the BSF along the International Border in Punjab on Monday. Officials said the incident was reported at 6.20 am when Border Security Force personnel spotted some movement ahead of the fence at the IB near the Paharipur border postRead More

Chandigarh, Congress MLA Rana Kanwar Pal Singh was on Monday elected unopposed as Speaker of the Punjab Assembly amid a walkout by the members of main opposition Aam Aadmi Party and its ally Lok Insaaf Party. On the second day of 15th Punjab Vidhan Sabha here, Leader of the HouseRead More

Chandigarh, March 27 The Punjab Cabinet on Monday decided to take up the matter of settlement of the legacy accounts regarding the pending Cash Credit Limit (CCL) with the Government of India, along with RBI and SBI, on priority basis. A decision to this effect was taken here at aRead More

Chandigarh, March 27 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered the newly-constituted Special Task Force (STF), headed by ADGP Harpreet Sidhu, to go all-out to wipe out the drugs scourge from the state within the stipulated time of four weeks, without sparing anyone found complicit in the trade. TheRead More

Ludhiana, Mar 27 : Torn pages of a Sikh religious book were today found scattered near a heap of garbage at the Anandpuri locality here, police said. During preliminary investigations, Harpreet Singh confessed that his children, who are toddlers, had torn the pages from the religious book inadvertently, they said.Read More

Chandigarh, March 27 The MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party and Lok Insaaf Party on Monday walked out of Punjab Vidhan Sabha opposing the Congress government’s denial to debate the Governor’s address and postponing it to the next session. Addressing the media outside Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Leader of opposition, Adv. H.S.Read More

Chandigarh, March 27 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday termed as regrettable the decision of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to walk out of the state assembly during the election of the Speaker. Addressing the House after the walk-out by AAP, which was protesting against what it claimedRead More