Amritsar, Following objection from Pakistan’s plant and quarantine department, seasonal export of peanuts from Gujarat and Rajasthan has come to a halt at the Attari Integrated Check Post (ICP). Rajesh Setia, an exporter, said Indian exporters were incurring losses due to non-clearance of quality tests on peanuts. He wondered whatRead More

New Delhi, The demand to amend Article 25(2) of the Constitution, which clubs Sikhs with Hindus, reverberated yet again in Parliament with Shiromani Akali Dal’s Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra, while speaking on the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, in the Lok Sabha, maintaining the Sikhs had waitedRead More

Chandigarh, December 29 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said only a Congress government, which had always treated Sikh religion and its institutions callously, could scrap the holy day to mark the creation of the Khalsa from the official list of holidays in Punjab. In aRead More

Chandigarh/29 December: The Istri Akali Dal (IAD) president Bibi Jagir Kaur today appointed a new team of Vice Presidents, General Secretaries & district Presidents to lead the Women Wing of the Shriomani Akali Dal (SAD). Releasing the second list of changes made into the Women Wing of SAD here fromRead More

Amritsar, On the directions of DGP Suresh Arora, the local police have booked former Chief Khalsa Diwan (CKD) head Charanjit Singh Chadha and his son, Inderbir Singh, on the complaint of a school principal, who was purportedly seen with Chadha in a “sleazy” video. A case was registered at IslamabadRead More

New Delhi, December 29 The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR after 22 teenagers from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi — illegally taken to France by three travel agents last year on the pretext of giving them rugby coaching — went missing, agency officials said here. The CBIRead More

Chandigarh, December 29 Controversial Director, Health, Dr Rajiv Bhalla, who will retire from service on Sunday, has been recommended for a plum post by the Minister for Health and Family Welfare. Dr Bhalla was indicted by a departmental inquiry in a case of bungling of funds. Sources said Health MinisterRead More

Jalandhar, December 29 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Pawan Tinnu today intercepted an overloaded sand tipper on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur highway. Even though the tipper was filled with sand almost double its capacity (25 tonnes), it had not been impounded by the police. The vehicle belongs to Sahara Transport, a firmRead More

Chandigarh December 28: Punjab Vigilance Bureau today apprehended and arrested Jagjit Singh Jagga who was driver of accused Naib Tehsildar Surinder Kumar Pabby and absconding with bribe money Rs. 1 Lac since the arrest of later in a vigilance trap on December 5 at Ajitwal in Moga district. Disclosing thisRead More

Chandigarh/28 December: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today termed the Congress government‘s decision to slash the list of government holidays as a ‘totally dictatorial, irrational and insensitive’ step taken without taking the other stakeholders into confidence, even as it demanded its immediate roll back. In a statement here, SAD spokesmanRead More