Chandigarh, September 12 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has summoned the records on the controversial felling of 24,000 fully grown eucalyptus, ‘sheesham’ and ‘keekar’ trees under a project to widen the 800-km-long Bist-Doab canal during the SAD-BJP rule. Taking up the petition filed by Delhi resident Nishant Kumar Alag, aRead More

Chandigarh, September 12 “Saragarhi: The True Story”, a documentary by UK-based journalist-filmmaker Jay Singh-Sohal, will be screened at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire tomorrow to mark the 120th anniversary of the epic frontier battle. It features footage from the site that falls within Pakistan’s unruly tribal region. The dayRead More

Chandigarh, September 11: State Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption today nabbed SHO and Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) red handed while accepting bribes in two different cases Disclosing this here an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said Inspector Sahib Singh SHO, posted at police station Amir KhasRead More

Chandigarh, September 11: Terming it a desperate and futile bid to wriggle out of his own responsibility in the matter, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has flayed his Haryana counterpart ML Khattar for blaming Punjab for the violence that followed the indictment of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief. DubbingRead More

Chandigarh September 11: Keeping in view the gravity of offence and heavy involvement of amount in a scam in State irrigation department, the Additional District and Session Judge Mohali today rejected the bail application of contractor Gurinder Singh who has been booked by the Vigilance Bureau in this case. DisclosingRead More

London, September 11: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday met steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal over lunch here to discuss a project for setting downstream Petrochemical industry in Sangrur, apart from a slew of other ventures in the state. This was their second meeting in two months and theRead More

Chandigarh, September 11 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said it was a matter of shame that Pradesh Congress president Sunil Jakhar was casting aspersions on a respected institution like PGIMER, Chandigarh in his desperation to defend vice president Rahul Gandhi’s blatant lie that 70 per cent Punjab youthRead More

Chandigarh, September 11: Punjab Governor and Administrator UT Chandigarh, Sh. V. P. Singh Badnore remembered the heroes of Saragarhi Battle and paid homage to all the soldiers of 36 Sikh Regiment who relentlessly fought and laid down their lives while fighting a tribal attack in the North West Frontier ProvinceRead More

S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), September 11: The Education Department, Punjab, today allotted stations as per merit to the 525 newly recruited teachers of master cadre. The appointment letters to these teachers were handed over by the Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh at Mohali during ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar’ job fair recently. TheRead More

Patiala, September 10: Former Punjab Deputy Speaker Birdevinder Singh today blasted Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh saying with his strange antithesis, he has preposterously discolored the glory of the commemorative function to observe the Battle of Saragarhi Day, by unnecessarily creating raged controversies on inappropriately refusing to declare the visitingRead More