GURDASPUR: Resentment prevails among hundreds of retired employees of various municipal councils under the jurisdiction of the local bodies deputy director, Amritsar, over non­ payment of their pension for the last four months. When retired employees contacted respective offices, they were told that the department does not have funds to pay ...

GURDASPUR: An old, uncovered and unused well at Sri Hargobindpur, 20 metres from the Sri Hargobindpur-Amritsar road, is waiting for an accident to get the attention of authorities concerned. In the absence of a boundary wall or warning sign around the well, it is posing a threat to human life. Sources say ...

GURDASPUR: Union health minister and veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that the people of Punjab wanted a change in the government and Congress was ready to form the next government. He was in Pathankot to campaign for Congress nominee Raman Bhatia. He said a national party like the ...

GURDASPUR: Goht Pokhar village sarpanch Harjinder Singh was severely injured after he was attacked by a group of ten men. Harijnder, along with 13 of his supporters, was canvassing in favour of the Congress nominee Raman Bahl on Monday, when they were attacked by a group of ten men, suspected to ...

GURDASPUR: Punjab school education secretary Hussan Lal has terminated the services of four 2006 cadre lecturers in physical education with effect from January 12 for the Departmental Selection Committee had not recommended their names. The orders came on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana high court. The candidates, with higher ...

GURDASPUR: The court of district and sessions judge Kewal Krishan Garg has awarded death sentence to one Salim Masih of Kala Afghana village under Fatehgarh Churian police station for attempting to rape a co-villager and killing her by striking brick on her head on the intervening night of June 15 ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa of Congress on Monday announced his full support to the party candidate from Gurdaspur Raman Bahl. He addressed an election rally in favour of Raman Bahl at local PS Gardens; He said Bahl would prove to be a better MLA. Bajwa reiterated that the ...

GURDASPUR: The Dhariwal police have booked Ranjit Singh of Dadwan village for allegedly kidnapping a minor girl of the same village. On the statement of girl's father Kulwinder Singh also of Dadwan village, the police registered a case under sections 363,366-(A) and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code against said ...

GURDASPUR: Punjab BJP treasurer Bal Krishan Mittal has taken a serious note of Gurdaspur district BJP president Rakesh Jyoti's statement that if SAD fielded sitting MLA Gurbachan Singh Babbehali from Gurdaspur in the forth­ coming state assembly elections, the district BJP would oppose him. Babbehali had accused Jyoti of misappropriating election ...

GURDASPUR: Shiromani Akali Dal Backward Classes Wing general secretary Manmohan Singh Bhagowalia demanded a party ticket for himself from Qadian for the forth­ coming state assembly elections. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Bhagowalia said that being state president of the Kashyap Rajput Maha Sabha, Punjab, he enjoyed a ...

GURDASPUR: The Punjab government has appointed four Christians as Christian marriage registrars for Jalandhar, Amritsar, Mohali and Gurdaspur. SOURCE-HT

GURDASPUR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee SC cell convener Joginder Singh Chhina has criticised the SAD-BJP alliance for not disbursing Central scholarship money to the tune of Rs 95 crore meant for about 3 lakh school students from minority com­ munities, as reported by Hindustan Times on Monday. Stating that the ...

GURDASPUR: Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa on Friday raised the issue of the Dera Baba Nanak-Kartarpur corridor in parliament during zero hour. Bajwa said that Dera Baba Nanak in India and Kartarpur sahib in Pakistan, separated by 2 km across the border, are closely connected with the life of guru Nanak ...