LUDHIANA: A day after the farm­ house double murder, the police were still groping in the dark. Moga deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Balraj Gill and Monica Kapila, a local resident, were found murdered at Agnihotri farmhouse adjoining Golf Link colony on the Hambran road, 7km from the city, in the ...

LUDHIANA: With the formation of the new government in Punjab more than a month away, there is a cloud of uncertainty over the second edition of the Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Punjab Games. The inaugural edition was organized with much fanfare by the SAD-BJP government in February-March last year Bollywood star Akshay ...

CHANDIGARH: A large number of posts of teachers are vacant in Punjab schools, which include 420 posts of principals, 312 of headmasters, 3,723 of lecturers, 1,599 of vocational masters, 103 of vocational teachers, 2,145 of master cadre and 692 of classical and vernacular cadre. Apart from this, 102 posts of block ...

AMRITSAR: The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union has slammed the state government for not disbursing funds under the 95% deficit grant-in-aid scheme to government-aided colleges of Punjab. As the grant under the scheme is meant for payment of salaries to teachers and other employees, delay in its release has led ...

CHANDIGARH: People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal has convened a meeting of all party candidates and the central committee members on February 13 here for a pre-election analysis. Since Badal is in Delhi for a surgery for a cyst in the throat and would return on February 13, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has ordered the dismissal of two PPS officers DSPs Parminder Singh and Bhupinder Singh after their convictions by special judge Hoshiarpur on September 19, 2011, and Faridkot district and sessions judge on September 30, 2009, respectively. SOURCE-HT

FATEHGARH SAHIB: Several activists of a Bassi Pathana-based Hindu organization on Monday decided not to cast their vote "to teach a lesson to candidates, who make false promises". The Shiromani Akali Dal had fielded former judge of Punjab and Haryarna high court, Nirmal Singh, while Harbans Kaur Dullo, wife Punjab Pradesh ...

PATIALA: Terming the high voting percentage as an "indicator of change", Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh, on Monday, expressed his gratitude to Dera Sacha Sauda for supporting the Congress. Predicting a "clear" Congress victory, he said the party would cross the 70-seat mark this time. Amarinder and other members ...

CHANDIGARH: People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal has expressed his gratitude to the voters of Punjab for coming out to vote in such overwhelmingly large numbers. "The high voter turnout shows the anger of the voters not only against the SAD-BJP government but also against the unhealthy five-year ...

AMRITSAR: The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MP, Abhay Chautala, on Friday termed All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Rahul Gandhi's public declaration that Capt Amarinder Singh would be the next chief minister of Punjab "as an act of frustration". "Rahul is aware that the Congress party is riddled with ...

MANSA: All praise for Punjabis' "immense contribution" to the Independence struggle and in defending the country, and in making the country self-reliant on the food front, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in Mansa on Friday, "While Sikhs like Manmohan Singh have held the nation's head high in the world, farmers ...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday took offence to a statement by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, where in he said that Punjab is were running Italy. "Meri mataji Italy se aayi hain; par aap jaante hai ki Italy ko kaun chala raha hai, Italy ke kheton ko kaun chala ...

CHANDIGARH: The People's Party of Punjab (PPP) has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) accusing the Congress of distributing liquor in Rajinder Kaur Bhattal's Lehra constituency, Seeking action against the Congress candidate, the PPP stated that motorcycle-borne Congress workers were distributing liquor coupons to villagers. The PPP workers said ...