Chandigarh, January 25 The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notice to Punjab following a bunch of three petitions regarding the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation polls. One of the petitions was filed by MLA Simarjit Singh Bains against the delimitation. Another petitioner had claimed that a ward was wronglyRead More

Chandigarh, Jan 23 The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday put the Punjab government on notice on a public interest litigation seeking court-monitored probe into spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Punjab jails. The notice was issued by the high court bench of justice Surya Kant for MarchRead More

Chandigarh, Jan 23 The police submitted chargesheet in the double murder case of senior journalist KJ Singh and his mother Gurcharan Kaur, here on Monday.The chargesheet against accused Gaurav Kumar was submitted in the court of civil judge (junior division) Joshica Sood. Apart from banking on the forensic report ,Read More

Chandigarh, Jan 23 Fifteen Congress councillors today boycotted the election of their party colleague Karamjit Singh Rintu as the Amritsar mayor, prompting Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar to seek a report. Jakhar has asked Punjab minister Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, who was the party observer for the mayoral election, andRead More

Patiala/Amritsar, January 23 Sanjeev Bittu was named as Patiala mayor here on Tuesday. Yoginder Singh Yogi was named senior deputy mayor and Vinti Sanger as deputy mayor. All three are from Patiala Urban assembly segment and are close to Preneet Kaur. Bittu has been the leader of opposition during theRead More

Chandigarh, Jan 23 The Committee of Privileges of Punjab Vidhan Sabha has summoned SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Lok Insaf party leader Simarjit Singh Bains to appear before it on February 6, sources said today. Both leaders were accused of using objectionable language against the assembly speaker during theRead More

Chandigarh, January 23 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today appointed Observers for all districts in Haryana to mobilize its cadre for the forthcoming assembly elections which it has decided to contest on its symbol. The Observers were appointed after a two hour meeting of the party’s Haryana leadership whichRead More

Chandigarh, January 23: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to the Ministry of Defence to set up a Light Combat Vehicles (LCVs) manufacturing unit in Punjab, with the assurance that his government would extend all support, including land allocation, for such a project. In a letter to UnionRead More

Chandigarh, January 23: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered immediate release of pending old age pensions, with strict instructions to regularise payment to the beneficiaries. The Chief Minister issued the directives during a meeting to review various schemes of the Department of Social Security and Women & ChildRead More

Chandigarh, January 23, 2018 The co-president of Aam Aadmi Party and MLA from Sunam, Aman Arora on Monday wrote a letter to the Chief Minister Punjab, Capt. Amarinder Singh, Chief Secretary and RTS Commission exposing gross violations in implementing the Right to Service Act in social security, Women and ChildRead More