CHANDIGARH: Taking up a petition seeking directions to pay fixed medical allowance to all retired employees of the Improvement Trusts, whether getting pension or not, the Punjab and Haryana high court has issued notice of motion to the Haryana government and Improvement Trust, Kamal. The petition filed by PS Chawla, former ...

AMRITSAR: Amritsar Member Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu and MIA Bikram Majithia jointly laid the foundation stone of the pro­ posed Press Club for Amritsar here on Thursday. The foundation stone was laid on 3,000 square yard land of the Amritsar improvement Trust in the New Amritsar area. Sidhu and Majithia promised ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has appointed Ram Parkash Chopra as the chairman of the Improvement Trust at Kotkapura in Faridkot district. SOURCE-HT

Gurdaspur: The improvement trust has launched the New Gurdaspur City project, which will come up on 84.77 acres between Tibri road and Kahnuwan road. The township will house a bus stand, a school, a park, 10 plots of 1 acre each for institutions, 478 houses and 41 SCOs. About ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday approved a plan for 14 floodlit stadiums of "inter national standards" - including eight multipurpose facilities, five for hockey, a "Punjab Institute of Sports" and a "Punjab School of Sports" - to be constructed at a cost of Rs 123 ...

HOSHIARPUR: Dozers pulled down over a hundred hutments on Improvement Trust land in scheme no. 2 on Friday, with police help. Tribals had squat­ ted on the Trust land over two decades back. Even as there was none of the opposition the Trust officials had anticipated, the squatters said they ...