Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has lauded the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, for being top ranked among all the State Agricultural Universities by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). It has also been ranked third amongst all the component institutes ofRead More

Chandigarh, Istri Akali Dal president Bibi Jagir Kaur today took strong notice of the Union Territory administration’s decision to make helmets compulsory for women, saying the step was not in consonance with Sikh religion and culture. In a statement here, Bibi Jagir Kaur said a meeting of all women ShiromaniRead More

CHANDIGARH, Continuing with their crackdown on drug smugglers and traders, the Punjab Police, in a joint operation with UP Police, on Monday busted an inter-state gang of drug peddlers. The gang was allegedly involved in smuggling of drugs used to create concoctions by drug addicts in Punjab, and was tracedRead More

Jahan Khelan (Hoshiarpur), Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday defended his decision on dope test for government employees and police personnel, saying such tests were also conducted in the Army, as a precautionary measure. The current situation in the state, where addicts were resorting to the use ofRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday made it clear that government employees who are found positive in the dope test would not be punished or sacked but would be provided treatment, with their identity also being kept confidential. Chairing a review meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee setRead More

Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the July 11 thanksgiving rally being organized at Malout would be a historic one with farmers from Punjab and even those from parts of neighbouring States expressing their overwhelming sense of gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the record increase inRead More

Chandigarh, Taking a serious note of the deaths of youngsters due to drugs in state, youth wing of Aam Aadmi Party has decided to gherao SSP Faridkot office on July 12. Addressing the media at Chandigarh, AAP co-president Dr. Balbir Singh, youth wing Incharge MLA Meet Hayer and youth presidentRead More

Gurdaspur, The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the shifting of seven accused in rape-murder of a eight-year-old minor nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua to the district jail in Gurdaspur.

Chandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh was acting like an arrogant ‘Raja’ who could do no wrong by refusing cooperation from any political party to fight the scourge of drugs even as his failure to take action himself wasRead More

Jahan Khelan (Hoshiarpur), Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday launched the ‘one rank up promotion’ scheme for assured career progression of police personnel, thus bringing to an end the stagnation in the force with the assertion that nobody will retire from Punjab Police before becoming an ASI. Addressing recruitRead More