* Launches e-district project linking 1500 offices in state and 139 at Chandigarh with horizontal connectivity * Introduces State Portal and State Service Delivery Gateway for G2C & G2G Services Chandigarh, The year 2014 is going to culminate in on a high note for Governance Reforms in Punjab as theRead More

Sangrur,  A five-member CBI team reached Malerkotla today for an investigation into the infamous Vidhu Jain murder case. Eleven-year-old Vidhu was set afire on September 30 last year in broad daylight at Malerkotla, about 35 km from here. After reaching the spot where Vidhu was burnt alive, the CBI teamRead More

Jalandhar, NRI Affairs Minister Tota Singh has expressed displeasure over the Narendra Modi-led Union Government’s move to shift the venue of the forthcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) to Gujarat.He said the Union Government had gone ahead with holding the PBD in Gujarat this year despite knowing the fact that Gujarat andRead More

Bathinda, Within a few days of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh dubbing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as genocide, the Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that apart from the Congress, several BJP and RSS workers too were involved in the riots.Senior AAP leader Jarnail Singh, who contested the Lok Sabha elections fromRead More

Amritsar, The tug of war between the ruling SAD and Haryana Sikhs over the formation of a separate gurdwara panel dominated the Sikh politics in the year gone by which also witnessed bloody clashes at Takht Sri Patna Sahib as well as Akal Takht. The year began on a violent noteRead More

Surabay/Jakarta,  An Indonesian official said objects have been spotted in the sea by a search plane hunting for the missing AirAsia jet. Jakarta’s Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said he was informed on Monday that an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious objects near Nangka island, aboutRead More

Islamabad/Lahore, A Pakistani court on Monday suspended the government order to detain Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, under a public security order three days after he was granted bail in the 26/11 case. However, a senior official of the Interior Ministry told PTI that theRead More

New Delhi, After tasting success in the General Elections and assembly polls in several states, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to ride the ‘Modi wave’ in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls as well, says sources. The BJP has prepared a blueprint for Delhi polls seeking to ride on PrimeRead More

Chandigarh, In a statement issued here today, S. Partap Singh Bajwa, President PPCC said that the decision of the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to hold 4 dharnas on the sensitive international border with Pakistan, which are unprecedented and will lead to public disorder and incite violence at theRead More

* Rahat Scheme launched to facilitate 1.86 lakh shopkeepers and traders *Disbursal of VAT refunds facilitated online by creating dedicated fund Chandigarh,  The Punjab Government has attained growth rate of 11.9 percent in collection of taxes to the tune of Rs 9114 crore by the end of August 2014 asRead More