Amritsar,  Mahavir Prasad Tordi, Special Adviser to the Nepal Vice-President, said today that his country was in favour of India becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Addressing mediapersons here, he said the objective of the three-day SAARC Cultural Co-Relation Conference, starting from December 7 in Kathmandu, wasRead More

Gurdaspur, The district administration raided several unauthorised centres of travel agents and ordered the immediate closure of more than 100 of these offices. The owners now face prosecution. According to the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act, 2012, agents desirous of sending people abroad should register with the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC)Read More

Chandigarh,  State AAP convener Bhagwant Mann today alleged that they already knew of a deal between the Congress and the Akali Dal. “It is only that CM Capt Amarinder Singh has admitted it now by saying that he won’t indulge in vendetta politics,” he claimed. Reacting to The Tribune reportRead More

Chandigarh, Even as nonagenarian freedom fighter Mohan Singh recently moved the High Court seeking compensation for the “brutal death” of his grandfather at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919, documents chanced upon during the digitisation of Punjab Archives show that the British had announced “liberal compensation” to the victimRead More

Chandigarh,  The industry in the organised sector has given the thumbs up to the smooth implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Though the impact of the GST will be known only from Monday onwards, when the trade returns full throttle after the weekend roll out of this majorRead More

Chandigarh,  The state government has detected that projects worth more than Rs800 crore were allotted through single bidding in the Municipal Corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, said Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is illegal to allot projects through single bidding. “The state has 167 local bodies, besidesRead More

Chandigarh,   Members of the PPCC’s legal cell are upset at being left out of the first batch of 121 law officers despite their party being in power. Some of these rejected candidates met state party president Sunil Jakhar, who assured them to take up the matter with the ChiefRead More

Chandigarh, July 1 Trashing allegations of favouritism, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday made it clear that every single appointment of the new Law Officers in the state government was based on merit after taking into account the professional qualifications and expertise of the candidates. Reacting to reportsRead More

Chandigarh, July 1 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday sanctioned Rs 3,56,700 from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, on humanitarian grounds, to facilitate the return of a Gurdaspur resident from a ship he is stuck in at Sharjah Port. In response to a letter from External Affairs Minister SushmaRead More

Chandigarh, July 1 – Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today urged Union finance minister Arun Jaitely to exempt all purchases made by SGPC for ‘langar sewa’ from the GST Act. In a statement here, Mrs Badal said the Punjab government had earlier exempted all items purchased forRead More