CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday adjourned for four weeks the Sehajdhari Sikh Party's petition seeking the appointment of an administrator to take care of the day-to-day work of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), with the directions that the HC be informed about the outcome of ...

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: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday disposed of the contempt petition filed by Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) president and Hisar MP Kuldeep Bishnoi against the three MLAs, Narendra Singh, Satp,al Sangwan and Vinod Bhayana, who joined the ruling Congress in 2009 after leaving his party. Satpal Sangwan and ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed Fatehabad District Bar Association to pay 50%i9f its pending electricity bill within one month to avoid disconnection of supply. As per the directions on a petition filed by the association, a bench headed by Justice Alok Singh ordered that the remaining ...

CHANDIGARH: The high court issued a notice to, the Punjab government on Tuesday on a public interest litigation (PIL) regarding the appointment of Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia as vice-chancellor of Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib. The petition, filed by Kuljit Singh Nagra before a division bench comprising chief ...

CHANDIGARH: The appointment of three information commissioners in Punjab stays pending. The government's plea of modification of the interim order restraining it from appointing the officers did not come up for hearing on Thursday before the Punjab and Haryana high court, as the application was not listed. The case stands ...

CHANDIGARH: Whether sarpanches and panches fall in the category of public servants for inquiry by the Punjab vigilance bureau would now be decided by the Punjab and Haryana high court. A resident of Badholi Gujran village in Patiala district has petitioned the high court challenging the bureau's instructions on March 6, ...

AMRITSAR: Eighteen students of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have breathed a: sigh a relief after the Punjab and Haryana High Court came to their rescue and directed the University authorities to give them admission in their respective courses. These 18 students include eight of the Commerce and Business Management (CBM) ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has issued notices for disconnecting electricity connections to 21 hotels and inns, which have been constructed in the vicinity of the Golden Temple, Amritsar, without getting their proper building plans sanctioned. This was informed by Rajat Agarwal, deputy commissioner, Amritsar, to the Punjab ...

CHANDIGARH: A full bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on the petitions seeking voting rights for Sehajdhari Sikhs in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections. The full bench comprising of justices Surya Kant, M Jeyapaul and MMS Bedi reserved the judgment after arguments ...

CHANDIGARH: The high court has restrained the Punjab government authorities from carrying out any changes in the historical Amritsar Town Hall building, which is being used by the municipal corporation. The directions came on a PIL filed by an NGO, National Welfare Society. Earlier, the NGO had approached the HC highlighting ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday submitted the record of expenses amounting to Rs 4.88 crore incurred by PPCC on the 2007-assembly elections in Punjab before the Punjab and Haryana high court. However, present during the hearing of an election petition filed against him by Sukhbeer Singh, Amarinder ...

GURDASPUR: As many as 563 sacked teaching fellows from all over the state, along with their families, will go on a fast unto death outside the residence of Punjab education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan in sekhwan village from Thursday. Stating this here on Tuesday, Punjab teaching fellows union president Sucha ...