Chandigarh, November 2:- Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday issued strict directions to the state police and intelligence agencies to go all out to counter the increasing misuse of social media to spread hate campaigns. The Chief Minister also ordered stern steps to break the nexus between terroristsRead More

Chandigarh, Nov 2: Punjab’s Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira was on Wednesday summoned by a court in Fazilka town in connection with a drugs case, leading to a war of words between his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the ruling Congress. Khaira’s name had come up in a heroinRead More

Chandigarh, November 2 – A joint SAD- BJP delegation today submitted a memorandum to the Vidhan Sabha Speaker demanding immediate removal of AAP leader Sukhpal Khaira from the post of leader of opposition even as it expressed apprehension that the Congress government was not serious about arresting Khaira. The jointRead More

Chandigarh, Nov 2 : A fast track court here on Thursday sentenced two maternal uncles, guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 3.5 lakh on them. The uncles, brothers hailing from Nepal, were convicted on Tuesday for raping the minor victim. TheRead More

New Delhi, November 2 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) constituted a three-member committee on Punjab on Thursday, authorising it to take political and organisational decisions for the state unit. The decision was taken at a meeting attended by MLAs and all office-bearers of AAP’s Punjab unit. Senior party leaders, includingRead More

Patiala, November 2 Manjit Thind, a cameraman, has been arrested in the Geet Brar murder case. Geet’s body was recovered from Rajpura on Wednesday. She was a makeup artist in Punjabi film industry. The cameraman was her friend and had picked her up on Tuesday evening and murdered her inRead More

Chandigarh, November 2 The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition against the merger of 800 government schools in Punjab. The order came after Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda told the bench that the petition was filed to favour teachers to be relocated. Nanda said in someRead More

Chandigarh, November 1 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the face of AAP had become the face of drugs in Punjab with a judicial court making its State legislature party leader Sukhpal Khaira an accused in a huge drug recovery case with Pakistani connections, even as it askedRead More

Chandigarh, November 1 Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has congratulated the people of Punjab for successfully steering the state on the path to development and progress despite the 1966 bifurcation which deprived it of several vital resources. Instead of allowing the state to suffer regression in the wake of theRead More

Chandigarh, Nov 1 : The BJP government in Haryana headed by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is on the defensive following its order asking teachers to carry out religious duties. The order was issued by the Education Department officials asking teachers to carry out religious duties, including distributing ‘prasad’, duringRead More