BATALA: Dozens of workers of the forest department staged a protest against the aliwal range officer on Wednesday against the decision to do away with the temporary workers hired by the department a few months back. Raising slogans against the officer, district president of the union Nirmal Singh said the range ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur district Congress committee president and Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhjinder Singh Radhwana, along with PPCC member Raiman Bahl, visited the house of home guard jawan Gurnam Singh in Mustafabad Jattan near here on Sunday and expressed solidarity with him. Gurnam was assaulted by Akali leader Inderpal Singh while ...

Gurdaspur: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Will Be the chief guest at a Christmas state- level function to be organized at Dera baba Nanak on December 31, Punjab State Minorities Commission Chairman Monawar Masih said. Masih was in town to hear the grievances of minorities at Gurdaspur. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: Taking up a public interest litigation challenging the Punjab government's recruitment process initiated for filling 2,251 post at different levels in the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL) and Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the Punjab and Haryana high court issued notice ...

JALANDHAR: The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has now given five days to the director, public instructions (DPI), colleges, to submit a report on allegations of fee being charged from SC students by Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) in violation of norms. After a complaint by a student from Jalandhar, the ...

AMRITSAR: The local police have booked more than 10 persons for allegedly beating up two persons in separate incidents. In his complaint to the police, Vijay Kumar, a resident of Jandiala town under Amritsar rural police district, alleged that Dilbagh Singh, Sukhwinder Goldy, Bittu, Amardeep and two other persons barged ...

Prestigious Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently X-rayed its thousand years old monumental Shiva-Nataraja statue as a part of research and was surprised to know that it was cast in solid bronze. Hollow sculptures have reportedly been a common practice in Europe since the Greek Antiquity. Museum discovered after X-ray that even the ...

Sr no Cities Name Candidates 1 Abohar Kuldip Singh (BSP),Lakshami Bhadon (BJP),Sunil Kumar Jakhar (Cong), Barjinder Singh Nehra (SAD-A), Mr. Shiv Lal Doda (Ind) 2 Adampur Sukhwinder Singh Kotli (BSP),Pawan Kumar (SAD),Dr. Rajbir Singh (BSP-A) , Satnam Singh Kainth(cong) 3 Ajnala AMARPAL SINGH (SAD),Master Jagdish Singh (BSP),Jagdish Kaur (BSP-A), Amrik Singh Nangal (SAD-A), Harpratap Singh Ajnala(Cong) 4 Amargarh Mohd. Arshad Dalli(BSP),Iqbal Singh (SAD),Ajit Singh Chandu Arayian(PPP) , Surjit Singh Dhiman (Cong), Paramjit ...

KAPURTHALA: Violating the poll code, the Biharipur village Gurdwara on Tuesday was used for poll campaigning by the SAD. An announcement exhorting people to congregate near the gurdwara to listen to party candidate Sarabjit Singh Makkar was made from the shrine. "The SAD candidate has arrived in the village. People are ...

By Rashmi Talwar: The 5th Chandigarh Regional Brain Bee Championship-2012 (a Neuroscience Contest), organized by the joint efforts of Department of Neurology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and Indian National Brain Bee (INBB ), Hyderabad was held at the Advanced Eye Centre PGI, Chandigarh. The aim was ...

CHANDIGARH: Career-oriented vocational subjects, including courses started by the CBSE in 2008, are yet to gain popularity among students in the region (Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir). Only Chandigarh has bucked the trend, with the demand for such courses high in the city. Currently, 90 vocational subjects are being offered, ...

NEW DELHI: The union food processing ministry has sought a four-fold hike in its 12th five-year plan outlay, to Rs 15,000 crore, to curb wastage of fruits and vegetables worth Rs 44,000 crore every, which is more than the budgetary allocation for the Nrega in financial year 2011-12. It has sought ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda expressed grief over the death of former Indian cricket team captain Mansur Ali Khan -Pataudi on Thursday. In a condolence message issued here, Hooda said that in his death, the country had lost a great cricketer. He conveyed his condolences to the members ...