CHANDIGARH: The All-India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers of Chandigarh zone will hold a demonstration in New Delhi on November 30 to protest against the "stagnation in promotion and degradation of the pay structure, especially in the rank of superintendent". The association, comprising members from Punjab, Himachal, Jammu & ...

AMRITSAR: Delhi-base businessman Damandeep in walked away with the title of Frankfinn Mr Singh International 2009 during a colourful extravaganza on Saturday night at Khalsa College. UK-based Mandeep Singh Khalsa remained first runner-up while Italy-based Talwinder Singh was the second runner-up. The contest had 30 finalists competing for the title, where ...

JALANDHAR: Three women and a girl were killed while 14 were injured in a bus-truck collision at Pathankot bypass chowk on Sunday morning. The deceased have been identified as bus passengers as Asha Rani (50), Santosh Rani (55), Banso Rani (52) and Triti (13). All were residents of Jawahar Nagar in ...

GURDASPUR: The proposed Rs 35­ crore Gurdaspur District Administrative Complex (DAC) to be raised on 10.65 acres of land at Kotli Nangalon the Jail Road here has been hanging fire for the past nine years. And the matter has only been made more complicated by local MLA Gurbachan Singh Babbehali's demand ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Animal Husbandry Minister Guizar Singh Ranike said the government will set up 19 new animal hospitals at the block level in the state. Speaking after inaugurating a veterinary polyclinic constructed at a cost of Rs 1.58 crore at Mohadian village in this district, Ranike said the government also planned ...

Deadline Violated Third Years In Row: To Seek More Time PATIALA: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is yet again set to falter on filing its mandatory annual tariff revision petition before the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the last dare for which is November 30. According to sources, the board ...

AAI SURVEY records 14.5 per cent decrease in passenger traffic as compared to last year at Amritsar RAJASANSI (AMRITSAR): The global recession and pulling out of key airlines have hit the flow of international traffic at Punjab's busiest airport here. An Airports Authority of India (AAI) survey has shown that the ...

AMRITSAR: Two days after Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu snubbed the district administration for poor performance in implementation of the rural job scheme, two Akali leaders came out in support of the administration, saying Sidhu was overreacting. Chairman of the District Planning Committee Veer Singh Lopoke and Prof Sarchand Singh, a ...

JALANDHAR: A huge rush of applicants was reported during a Sangat Darshan programme conducted by Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia at Government Senior Secondary School, Kot Ramdass Abadi, in ward no. 9 of his constituency on Saturday. While redressing the ward residents' grievances, the Minister issued on-the-spot instructions to the officials ...

PATHANKOT: A 23-year-old woman and her one-year-old daughter were kille9- on the spot when the car they were traveling in collided with a trolley parked at the roadside in Sudar Chakk village near here on Friday night. Deceased Tara Devi's husband Bodh Raj, who was driving the car, brought them to ...

NAKODAR: The Block Samiti authorities are at their wits' end on how to realize rent arrears of more than Rs 36 lakh that the DSP office owes for using a portion of its office building on Jandiala road and how to get the premises vacated. Samiti chairman Tarsem Singh Baloki had ...

HOSHIARPUR: The Drug Department on Saturday raided two unlicensed godowns in Garhshankar and seized drugs worth over Rs 50 lakh. Huge recoveries of psychotropic drugs were also made from three other stores. On secret information, a team of four drug inspectors headed by additional drug controller Pardeep Mattoo conducted a raid ...

Amritsar: Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Rajinder Kaur Bhattal on Saturday claimed that Parkash Singh Badal had not learnt the art of governance despite becoming the Chief Minister for the fourth time. Bhattal, who was here to meet veteran Congress leader R.L. Bhatia, said no section of society was ...