KAPURTHALA: Violating the poll code, the Biharipur village Gurdwara on Tuesday was used for poll campaigning by the SAD. An announcement exhorting people to congregate near the gurdwara to listen to party candidate Sarabjit Singh Makkar was made from the shrine. "The SAD candidate has arrived in the village. People are ...

KAPURTHALA: Shiromani Akali Dal candidate from Kapurthala assembly constituency Sarabjit Singh Makkar has been served with d a show-cause notice for violating the model code of conduct during a party rally at Shehrian Mohalla on Saturday. Taking cognizance of a complaint, district election officer Paramjeet Singh instructed assistant returnirig officer (ARO) ...

KAPURTHALA: Paramjit Singh, 21, committed suicide by consuming some poisonous article at his meat shop situated outside RCF here on Thursday. SOURCE-HT

KAPURTHALA: The opening of Day Duronto train service between Amritsar and Chandigarh is likely to be delayed for another month, as the Railways awaits clearance from the commissioner of safety. On March 31, the Duronto Express rake comprising three air-conditioned (AC) arid 13 non-AC chair cars rolled out of Rail Coach ...

KAPURTHALA: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday directed the chief engineer, drainage, to release 100 cusecs of fresh water into the holy Kali Bein. This was stated by finance minister Dr Upinderjit Kaur, who met the CM on Monday and apprised him of the deteriorating condition of the Bein ...

KAPURTHALA: Harkesh Singh Sidhu on Tuesday took over as news deputy commissioner in Kapurthala. He was deputy commissioner in Sangrur before his transfer as director of colonization and land records on Sunday, and on Monday morning, the government posted him as kapurthala DC. Kapurthala district has seen the thid DC in less ...

KAPURTHALA: The Rail Coach Factory (RCF) will export four air-conditioned diesel motive units (DMU) to Senegal by the end of May. RCF general manager KK Saxena on Tuesday gathered the media and told them about the deal. The Senegal Minster of transport, Nafy Diouf Ngom, and four other delegates from the ...

KAPURTHALA: It was one phone call from Una that engulfed the two villages of Mand Ibrahimwal and Kookan in grief, on Saturday afternoon. Pall of gloom descend on these villages when one of the injured informed the villagers about the road accident in which six persons from these villages were ...

KAPURTHALA: The excise and tax­ation department has slapped a penalty of Rs 1.1 crore for evad­ing VAT on two husk firms owned by a local BJP leader and his relatives. PK and Company is report­edly owned by former BJP dis­trict president Sham Sunder Aggarwal and SS Trading is owned by his ...

KAPURTHALA: The statewide strike of municipal workers will prolong and streets will remain dirty. On Monday in Chandigarh, the dialogue between the Punjab local bodies minister, Manornajan Kalla, and agitating municipal workers failed on the prime question of permanent jobs to daily-wage earners and ad hoc employees. "When the first demand ...

KAPURTHALA: Having remained shut for 12 days, more than 3,400 rice millers in Punjab on Monday called off their strike following acceptance of their demand for waiver of Rs 18­ per-quintal value cut being imposed on paddy milled by them for the government. This was announced here by  Punjab Rice Millers ...

KAPURTHALA: The Punjab government has issued a notification for the formation of the Rs 1,100 crore Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Fund for urban cities for which the governor had issued an ordinance. Principal secretary, local bodies, SS Rajput, when contacted, said on Sunday that the state government would provide an annual ...

KAPURTHALA: The state government is setting up a Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Fund, for which the ordinance is expected to be issued after approval from the governor in a day or two. This was disclosed by state local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia while speaking to mediapersons here on Thursday. He was ...