CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Monday sought a month's time from the Punjab and Haryana high court to submit its final report about the constitution of a state human rights commission. The counsel for the state told the division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar that the meeting to discuss ...

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday advocated greater say for the state government in urban development projects implemented with the Centre's assistance. While the plan for Haryana towns of the national capital region (NCR) proposes to develop Gurgaon, Faridabad, Bahadurgarh and Sonepat on a par with Delhi, the Haryana ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the union home ministry to take immediate decision on Punjab government's plea for deputing a specialized team for destroying RDX and other explosives piled up in various police malkhanas. The directions came from a division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar during ...

CHANDIGARH: State health minister, Roa Narender Singh on Sunday said 20 eye donation centers’ have been set up in state under the Nehru Drishti scheme. The minister said an eye specialist each has been appointed in these 20 centers’. He was speaking at the 36th annual function of blind girl’s school, Narnaul. Counselors’ ...

CHANDIGARH: The state government has constituted the right to education and protection authority (REPA) to ensure compliance of right of children to free and compulsory education (RTE) Act 2009. A school education department spokesperson said students or their parents or guardians could lodge complaints relating to the act on toll free ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday urged the union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal to enact legislation on Right to Play on the pattern of Right to Education. The chief minister made this suggestion at a sports award function in New Delhi. Earlier, the chief minister had ...

CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday that the file carrying the report of then Haryana director general of police (DGP) RR Singh regarding the inquiry against accused SPS Rathore, also a former Haryana DGP, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief electoral officer Kusumjit Sidhu said on Thursday that as per latest instructions of the Election Commission, static surveillance teams and flying squads deployed to monitor expenditure and flow of liquor during the assembly elections have been directed to be disbanded. Sidhu said the district administration especially the SSPs ...

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 ...

CHANDIGARH: Responding to the refusal of the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) to implement the "standards of performance" guidelines laid down by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the regulatory body has sent a communication to the state power secretary, instructing that the guidelines be implemented and necessary directions ...

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Press Club, on Wednesday, strongly condemned the attack on a journalist of a daily newspaper in Nabha during Monday's polling and urged the Punjab DGP to personally intervene and ensure appropriate action against the two Congress workers named in the FIR. Harvinder Kaur of Punjabi Tribune was hospitalized after ...

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 Police have, till date, dismissed 52 policemen of various ranks convicted in different cases, including four DSPs. However, there are still 22 policemen who have been retained in service despite their conviction and awarded lenient punishments. This was submitted by MS Chhina, assistant inspector-general of police, welfare and ...