KAPURTHALA: The Education Department will issue appointment letters to 7,654 masters, lecturers and vocational teachers within 15 days following the Punjab and Haryana High Court vacating the stay order. Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur announced this here on Monday while talking to reporters. She said the combined merit would be considered ...

KAPURTHALA: More than 100 Congress workers, led by Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, staged a protest in front of the SSP's office here on Thursday, alleging political vendetta at the behest of former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur. The Congress workers alleged that more than 1,000 prominent party members had been ...

PATIALA: CBI counsels, who concluded cross-examination of Kamaljeet Singh, complainant in the Harpreet Kaur murder case, on Friday, moved an application under Section 340 of the CrPC to prosecute the complainant for turning hostile. Concluding the cross-examination, CBI counsels asked Kamaljeet if he was acting in collusion with the accused, which ...

KAPURTHALA: Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Wednesday called upon the Sikh Congress workers and supporters to enroll as many workers as possible for the ensuing SGPC elections to oppose the SAD-sponsored candidates. Addressing a Congress workers’ rally after inaugurating the new office of the District Congress Committee (DCC) opposite the ...

CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress leader and Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira has stated that Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's reported orders to all deputy commissioners to keep Akali workers happy tantamount to unconstitutional working and subverting the principles of governance. He said the deputy commissioners were handed over a list of ...

KAPURTHALA: The cancellation of former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh's scheduled visit to the city on Tuesday threw the rival Congress camps in the district led by Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and former MP Rana Gurjit Singh at odds. Capt Amarinder was to give away prizes at a kabaddi tournament ...

JALANDHAR: Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Friday urged the people of Punjab to use the RTI Act as a tool to fight corruption, unearth scams and unconstitutional working in the government, and end injustice being done to people at the hands of "arrogant politicians". In a statement released here, ...

CHANDIGARH: In a stinging retort to the charges leveled against him by Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Saturday, senior Congress leader and former MP Rana Gurjit Singh said Sunday that Khaira was playing to the gallery. He never raised the issue of discrepancies in membership drive before the media, said ...

JALANDHAR: Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira has demanded a murder case against police officials in the custody death of Aroor Singh at Dhilwan police station two months back. The viscera report has con­ firmed the presence of poisonous substances - organo phosphorous compounds (OPC) - in Aroor's blood. Khaira, who was speaking ...