Chandigarh, A division bench headed by justice Hemant Gupta on Thursday recused from hearing the Punjab drug case. On March 18 another bench had recused from hearing case on transfer of Enforcement Directorate official Niranjan Singh, involved in the investigations into the money laundering case in the Bhola drug racket.Read More

Dhuri (Sangrur), All 166 polling booths (103 polling locations) have been declared sensitive for the Dhuri Assembly by-election. Sources said out of 166 polling booths, 91 have been declared hypersensitive and the remaining 75 sensitive. These polling booths are located in 75 villages and Dhuri town. The total number of votersRead More

Chandigarh, The state government today came under a sharp attack in the Assembly over the delay in the distribution of funds to students under the minority pre-matric and post-matric scholarship scheme. Leader of Opposition, Sunil Jakhar, said the distribution of the funds, released by the central government under the scheme, hasRead More

Chandigarh, As the curtains closed down on the Budget Session of the Vidhan Sabha, a toned-down Opposition could not take on the Akali-BJP government on any of the issues. Be it the alleged involvement of a senior minister in the synthetic drug case, the poor state of economy or the LandRead More

Chandigarh, The House today unanimously passed four Bills, increasing the salary of MLAs, ministers and the speaker by 60 to 100 per cent, and also approved a resolution for a new housing colony for serving and former MLAs. Interestingly, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal had recently complained about the fact thatRead More

Chandigarh,  Putting an end to discrimination against women, the Assembly unanimously passed a Bill allowing women to work during night in shops and commercial establishments. The move will provide more employment opportunities to women, especially in the field of Information Technology. Barring health and police, women employees were not allowedRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Vidhan Sabha unanimously sought apology for inhuman shooting down of 19 innocent Punjabis on Kamaghata Maru ship in the year 1914. In a historic resolution passed unanimously by Punjab Vidhan Sabha, it was demanded that The Indian Government should ask Canada Government to ensure that Canadian ParliamentRead More

Chandigarh, The Congress has sought a white paper on power situation in Punjab. It has accused the state government of encouraging private thermal power plant owners to “fleece” lakhs of consumers and forcing them to purchase the costliest power in the country. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, however, justified theRead More

Amritsar, Walking in the midst of hundreds of devotees, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday offered prayers at the holiest of Sikh shrines, Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as Golden Temple. This was the first time Modi came to the Sikh shrine after becoming prime minister in May last year. HundredsRead More

Chandigarh, The Mission Director National Health Mission, Punjab, Sh Hussan Lal here today appealed the striking employees of NHM Punjab to join back their duties as the department is already considering their genuine demands pertaining to rationalization of the salaries of employees. He stated that the earlier orders of RationalizationRead More