Ludhiana: Once More, Punjab has missed he chance to exhibit its culture and lifestyle at the national Republic Day parade on Rajpath in New Delhi. It’s not the first time it has failed to send its tableau to the function. It did send one in 2012 but only after the media ...

PHAGWARA: Punjab government will name the Amritsar-Wagah road as Swami Vivekanand Marg to mark the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekanand. This was stated by chief parliamentary secretary  (local bodies) Som Parkash at a shobha yatra organized here on Friday in connection with the celebrations. Punjab State Text Book ...

PATHANKOT: Outgoing state BJP president Ashwani Sharma said on Tuesday that he was happy with his performance as he had finished the mission assigned to him by the party. Sharma said the party wanted him to repeat its performance despite the anti-incumbency factor, and he lived up to the expectations of ...

KARNAL: Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) burned effigy of Vidhan Sabha speaker Kuldeep Sharma here on Monday. They were protesting against Sharma’s decision to set aside disqualification petitions against five HJC legislators who had defected to the Congress after the 2009 assembly polls, providing ...

CHANDIGARH: HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi admitted during his cross-examination that he had met chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during the period prior to the merger of five HJC MLAs. According to the speaker’s orders, Bishnoi said he kept meeting the CM. “When he was specifically asked what issues were discussed by ...

NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCFA) on Thursday approved a 10 % state sale in consultancy major Engineers India Ltd (EIL) through a public issue, a move likely to fetch the exchequer around Rs800 crore. The government holds 80.4% in EIL and post divestment, the shareholds in the company ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) registered 81 cases in the state in 2012. According to VB chief director-cum-DGP Suresh Arora, the bureau arrested six gazetted officers, 32 non-gazatted officers and six private individuals in 38 corruption cases last year. He said the bureau had stepped up its drive against corruption ...

GURDASPUR: An undertrial, Avtar Singh alias ladi, escaped from police custody with handcuffs on while he was being taken back to the Gurdaspur central jail after appearing in the court of additional sessions judge Harleen Bhardwaj on Thursday. A police party from Batala police district and relatives of Avtar Singh were ...

AMRITSAR: Welcoming the hike in railway fare for providing better safety, hygiene and other amenities to passengers, a local non-governmental organization, Mission Aagaaz, has said railways will have to go an extra mile fore improving cleanliness in trains and at railway station besides ensuring comfort of passengers. In a letter ...

HISAR: To check increasing incident of eve-teasing in Hisar, various social organizations formed a joint front “Hisar” against eve-teasing during a meeting at Millennium Palace here on Monday. The incident of January 3 evening, wherein a few miscreants not only harassed a girl on road but also thrashed shopkeeper Abhinav Aggarwal ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court was informed by the Punjab government on Monday that the chargesheet had been field by the police in the Faridkot minor girl’s abduction-rape case before the duty magistrate, Faridkot, on December 26 and further trail commitment proceedings were pending. When the petition field by ...

GURDASPUR: PPCC member Raman Bahl alleged on Monday that the government was conducting the delimitation exercise in wards in villages in violation of rules. Talking to mediapersons here, Bahl said the SAD-BJP alliance had completely politicized the task of delimitation of wards to ensure the success of its candidates in the ...

AMRITSAR: The 200 delegates, who converged here for the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) conference on Sunday, proceeded to Lahore for the next round of the conference on Monday afternoon. The SAFMA conference, which began in Amritsar on Sunday, will conclude in Lahore on January 8 and the Indian ...