Chandigarh The state Cabinet on Monday gave its nod to the draft Punjab Lokayukta Bill which allows the prosecution of MLAs, including the chief minister, if two-thirds of the assembly approves. The Bill to be introduced in the current Budget session seeks to replace the Punjab Lokpal Act, 1996 andRead More

Mohali To boost the start-up ecosystem, Finance Minister Manpreet Badal announced a Rs100-crore start-up fund in partnership with IKG Punjab Technical University today. Manpreet announced this while delivering the keynote address at ‘TiECon-2020’ held at the Indian School of Business, Mohali. He said the fund would be a revolving oneRead More

Patiala, In a blatant misuse of labour welfare funds in the state, the officials concerned are said to have given financial benefits worth Rs 4.40 crore to as many as 5,126 ineligible workers. The said irregularities were highlighted in the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) report presented in theRead More

Chandigarh The Vidhan Sabha on Thursday witnessed ruckus on the reports of questioning of devotees returning through the Kartarpur corridor as the Opposition again gunned for the DGP over his purported remarks related to security concerns at the corridor. The concerns of minorities in the wake of riots in DelhiRead More

New Delhi The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday appointed its MLAs Jarnail Singh and Atishi as in-charge of the party’s Punjab and Goa units, respectively. The AAP would soon start organisation building operations in the two states, according to a statement. “The AAP on Friday appointed Atishi, senior leaderRead More

Chandigarh No less than 28 Directors General of Police (DGPs) throughout the country will have to go consequent to the Central Administrative Tribunal’s order setting aside the appointment of Dinkar Gupta as the Punjab Police chief, the Punjab and Haryana High Court was told today. The hearing in the matterRead More

New Delhi Former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Wednesday and discussed with her the roadmap for the revival of Punjab. AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was also present at the meeting. Sidhu said he had been called by the party leadership toRead More

New Delhi Namya Joshi, a seventh-grader from Sat Paul Mittal School in Ludhiana loves training teachers and has been a crusader for making learning fun through technology. Joshi, 13, has been helping teachers—not only at her school but across the globe—convert classroom lessons into interactive Minecraft sessions. For her, MinecraftRead More

Chandigarh Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said the government was starting work on the next pay commission and it would be implemented by next year. It was a long-pending demand of the employees. Speaking in the Budget session of the Punjab Assembly, Amarinder said free power to farmersRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said he was shocked at the violence in Delhi and asked the central and the Delhi governments to work together to prevent any more escalation. “Shocked and concerned about the Delhi violence. Urge Amit Shah and Arvind Kejriwal to sit together and resolve theRead More