Chandigarh, March 5 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked the Congress government to regularize the services of contractual teachers as per the Congress party’s election eve promises and not try to come out with new discriminatory and anti-human policies aimed at denying them their just benefits. In aRead More

Chandigarh, March 6 A massive crackdown was on Tuesday launched in the Nawanshahr and Jalandhar districts after Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh spotted illegal mining activity being carried out on the Sutlej river bed while flying over the area in a chopper on way to Kartarpur. The Chief MinisterRead More

Chandigarh, March 6 :  Punjab Police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the murder of a Hindu leader in October last year with the arrest of alleged gangster Saraj Singh Sandhu. Vipin Kumar Sharma, the district president of Hindu Sangharsh Sena in Amritsar, was shot dead in Amritsar by twoRead More

Chandigarh, March 6: State Vigilance Bureau, today nabbed ASI Narinder Singh red handed while accepting bribe of Rs 10,000. Disclosing this here an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said ASI Narinder Singh posted at Sadar Police Station Phagwara, Kapurthala was nabbed red handed on the complaint of Bhupinder SinghRead More

Chandigarh, March 5: State Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption today nabbed Revenue Patwari red handed while accepting bribe of Rs. 13000/-. Disclosing this here an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said Subhash Chander Patwari posted at Alam Shah in Fazilka district was nabbed red handed byRead More

Chandigarh, March 5 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today while appreciating the Congress government for appointing India’s Women cricket world cup star Harmanpreet Kaur as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the country’s first women wrestler to bag a gold in the Asian Wrestling Championship –Read More

Gurdaspur, March 5 The retraction of the victim’s statement in the Sucha Singh Langah rape case has put the police in a tight spot as senior officers claim that they are unable to do much as the matter is sub judice. The Additional District and Sessions Judge has fixed MarchRead More

Fazilka, March 5 The Vidhan Sabha Committee to review suicide by farmers and landless labourers will present its report in the Assembly during the Budget session scheduled later this month. Committee chairman Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and member Nathu Ram, Balluana MLA, recently toured Gujarat to gather facts on how toRead More

Chandigarh, March 5 In power, or out of power, the Badals’ transport business — often accused of indulging in high-handed and unfair trade practices at the cost of competition, mainly public transport — seems to be on a steady ascendancy. “Cartelisation” by the Badal-owned bus companies was a charge oftenRead More

London, March 5 A British tribunal will rule on a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for classified UK Cabinet Office files that are believed to hold information on Britain’s involvement in Operation Bluestar in 1984. A three-day hearing of the First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) will open in London onRead More