JALANDHAR: The Punjab State Dalit Action Committee on Tuesday accused the district administration of violating Article 25 of the Constitution, which gives every citizen the right to practice any religion. Submitting a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Ajeet Singh Pannu, addressed to the President, Prime Minister, Home Minister and National Human Rights ...

JALANDHAR: A local court on Tuesday stayed the auction proceedings of the Circuit House here after the government, which had failed to deposit Rs 2.42 crore to litigants in a land acquisition case despite the High Court orders, deposited Rs 72 lakh in the court. A local court had ordered the ...

JALANDHAR: Punjab Defence Services Welfare Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan, on Friday, announced that the department would soon dispose of nearly a hundred pending cases of allotment of land to war widows and give out Rs 1 lakh compensation each in lieu of acre land. Talking to mediapersons after paying tributes at ...

JALANDHAR: A huge rush of applicants was reported during a Sangat Darshan programme conducted by Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia at Government Senior Secondary School, Kot Ramdass Abadi, in ward no. 9 of his constituency on Saturday. While redressing the ward residents' grievances, the Minister issued on-the-spot instructions to the officials ...

JALANDHAR: Taking note of complaints about defective and spurious potato seeds sent to West Bengal farmers by some unidentified traders, a team of Horticulture Department and Punjab Mandi Board officials, on Wednesday, conducted raids on several cold storage units adjoining Lambra village of the district. Dr Satbir Singh, Deputy Director, Horticulture, ...

JALANDHAR: The dream project of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to open Adarsh schools has hit a roadblock at Wadala village here over alleged interference of Akali leaders. Construction started in the first week of September but after three days on September 9, the villagers found that the base, constructed by ...

JALANDHAR: Claiming that their children were living in miser­ able conditions in Libya, Melilla (Spain) and the UAE, hundreds of parents, along with leaders of the Lok Bhalai Party (LBP), staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Wednesday. Some parents said they were unaware of the ...

PHILLAUR: More than three years after a Punjab and Haryana High Court (HC) ruling to remove encroachments from government land, owners of as many as 222 illegal shops set up on the western side of the ,old GT Road here have agreed to remove their establishments on the condition that ...