HOSHIARPUR: The Congress and SAD-BJP alliance may be hoping the PPP does not climb in popularity, but thanks to Basant Panchami, the kite - the PPP's election symbol-will fly high. Manpreet Badal's party plans to launch thousands of kites on January 28, the day of the festival, and two days before ...

HOSHIARPUR: Former Cong member Rajnish Kumar Babbi filed his nomination as an independent candidate from Mukerian. Babbi is the son of former minister Dr Kewal Krishan's. The party ticket has gone to industrialist Ajit Narang. Thousands of supporters attended his rally. SOURCE-HT

HOSHIARPUR: An advice from doctors to social activist Anna Hazare not to strain himself till his health improves has apparently come as a big relief to the Congress in Punjab, which is going to the polls on January 30. Anna in bed means he would not be touring the poll-bound state ...

HOSHIARPUR: Following in the footsteps of Manjit Kaur, a resident of Chakkowal Shiekhan village, who refused to accept free bicycle under Mai Bhago scheme, two more students have said no to the freebie. Hapreet Kaur and Jasdeep Kaur of Dhadde Fateh Singh have told the principal that they would not accept ...

HOSHIARPUR: Punjab forest officer RR Kakkar, who was booked last week on the charge of framing a former wildlife warden, has moved an application for anticipatory bail in the court of additional sessions judge JS Khushdil. The court on Monday issued a notice to the state for October 4. Arguing on ...

HOSHIARPUR: Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Amarinder Singhon Monday said the Prime Minister could not be summoned to the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism. "With all respect to the sanctity and authority of Akal Takht Sahib, the Prime Minister cannot be summoned there," he told ...

HOSHIARPUR NEWS: With 95.46% marks, Gaganjot Kaur of Government Senior Secondary School, Ambala Jattan, is second in the state but now she needs help to study further. "My hard work has paid off," she said. "I studied regularly and stuck to a time table. My mother and teachers were of great ...

HOSHIARPUR(Punjab news): Hoshiarpur As a mark of protest against the hike in petroleum prices, newly­ installed local government and industries minister Tikshan Sud and his wife, Rakesh, hired a rickshaw to travel a distance of about 500 metre from the PWD rest house to his residence. The BJP legislature party leader, ...

HOSHIARPUR: The court of chief judicial magistrate Gurmit Kaur on Wednesday issued summons to SAD secretary Daljit Singh Cheema, directing him to appear in the court on May 13, the next date of hearing of the case filed against the Shiromani Akali Dal by Socialist Janata Party national vice-president Balwant ...

HOSHIARPUR: NRIs Harjinder Singh Harry and Parminderjit Kaur Lovely donated Rs 15 lakh for the building of Government Senior Secondary School, Bhangala. Education minister SS Sekhwan inaugurated its construction and said that the government would provide Rs 60 lakh, as per the state government policy that if an NRI ...

HOSHIARPUR: School teachers , were taken aback on Thursday when they received an obscene email, that too from the ID of an official. As per reports, assistant science supervisor and inspection coordinator Ashok Kalia was at his job of sending mails on behalf of the district education officer. He was shocked when ...

HOSHIARPUR: Six inmates escaped from the Juvenile Justice Home in Ram Colony Camp here on Thursday. Home superintendent Jagdish Mittar has been placed under suspension by the director (social security) following the incident. SSP Rakesh Aggarwal also suspended five police personnel deployed for security at the Home. The police said the ...

HOSHIARPUR: All roads seemed to lead to the grain market on Phagwara road on Friday morning. A campaign by Pooran Swaraj Sankalp Society, a social organization, had announced that Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Rai Khanna would take away foodgrain lying in the FCI godown in the grain market and distribute ...