Hoshiarpur/Jalandhar : Upset with the Deputy Commissioner for not making it to the District Development and Coordination Committee (DISHA) meeting in Hoshiarpur, Union MoS Vijay Sampla today adjourned it, saying that he would take up the matter with the Parliament Committee of Privileges. As the chairman of the committee, Sampla saidRead More

Chandigarh, June 27 Mr. Charanjit Singh Channi, Minister for Technical Education and Industrial Training, today launched the ‘Every student and teacher raise a tree’ campaign and announced that students and teachers of all ITIs, Polytechnics and Engineering colleges in the state would not only plant saplings under this campaign butRead More

Chandigarh, June 27: The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has ordered vigilance probe against the bungling of funds pertaining to scholarships by a private college of Patiala. The commission has ordered the probe after probe at its own level. Disclosing this here today, the Chairman of the Commission Mr. RajeshRead More

New Delhi, June 27: The Shiromani Akali Dal-Bhartiya Janta Party combine MLA Mr. Manjinder Singh Sirsa today urged Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Admi Party convener Mr. Arvind Kejriwal to sack controversial and alleged corrupt PWD minister Mr. Satyendra Jain before commencement of the Delhi Assembly Session on June 28thRead More

Patiala,  State Congress chief Sunil Jakhar today alleged that AAP MLAs had themselves removed their turbans during the ruckus in the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. Replying to a question, Jakhar said, “The legislators tried to breach the Assembly protocol. One of them hit a woman marshal and broke another marshal’sRead More

Ludhiana,  On a call given for a three-day nationwide strike by all India Textile Association, dealers at some places in Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday held protests demanding ‘zero’ Goods and Services Tax (GST) on clothes. In Ludhiana, the textile garments hub, a procession was taken out by the protestersRead More

Ropar,  The SGPC today passed a resolution seeking an apology from Speaker Rana KP Singh over the “turban tossing” incident in the Assembly. The executive committee of the Sikh body held a meeting in this regard at Gurdwara Bhatha Sahib here. Addressing mediapersons, SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar said RanaRead More

Amritsar,  An Italian delegation, including Sikh activist Sukhdev Singh Kang, today sought Akal Takht’s approval for a specially designed kirpan. The delegation said the Italian Government had recently allowed Gursikhs to wear the kirpan, made of a flexible material, as it did not “look like a weapon”. Akal Takht JathedarRead More

Amritsar, The SGPC plans to switch over to solar energy soon to cook langar in the world’s largest kitchen at the Golden Temple. At present, at Sri Guru Ramdas Langar Hall, free food is prepared through LPG and some amount of wood is also used as fuel to prepare food forRead More

Chandigarh,  The Punjab and Haryana High Court has put Punjab, its Director General of Police, Batala Senior Superintendent of Police and other respondents on notice in a petition alleging a possible kidney scam. The notice by Justice AB Chaudhari came on a petition by Anjali Kumar through counsel OS BatalviRead More