CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court was informed by the Punjab government on Monday that the chargesheet had been field by the police in the Faridkot minor girl’s abduction-rape case before the duty magistrate, Faridkot, on December 26 and further trail commitment proceedings were pending. When the petition field by ...

AMRITSAR: Local Advocates will observe a ‘no work’ day on Saturday to press for the long-pending demand of the lawyers’ fraternity of Punjab to declare a five-day week. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Amritsar Bar Association here on Friday. The meeting was chaired by President Pardeep ...

Chandigarh: The Punjab Vigilance bureau (VB) has said that PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh has sought transfer of the trial in the 2008 Amritsar Improvement Trust case outside the state after three-and-a-half years of presenting of the challan in the SAS Nagar trial court just to delay and avoid the ...

CHANDIGARH: Pursuant to the directions from the Punjab and Haryana high court, the Punjab police have suspended two havaldars for beating up a hand­ cuffed inmate, Manmeet Singh, in May 2010 on the way to the Ludhiana district courts from the jail. Then superintendent of jails has also been issued a ...

CHANDIGARH: The union ministry of external affairs (MEA) has written to 15 foreign diplomatic missions in New Delhi, requesting them to provide details of Indian nationals lodged in their jails for various offenses. These diplomatic missions belong to the UAE, Kuwait, Spain, Canada, Greece, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday gave a month's time to National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) regional director to inspect all self-financed BEd and DEd colleges in Haryana and submit the status report. A division bench issued the directions during the resumed hearing of a PIL filed ...

FEROZEPUR NEWS: Matter's in court, yet PUDA has auctioned 56 residential plots of its proposed colony at the 13adha well and in Pazilka. The Punjab and Haryana high court is yet to give verdict on encroachment of the lake' but the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) is on ...

CHANDIGARH: Taking up a public interest litigation seeking directions to the concerned authorities to check illegal mining on the left side area of Beas river in Bella Mastgarh village of Gurdaspur district causing risk of diversion in natural flow of river, the Punjab and Haryana high court has issued a ...

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: The Haryana government on Monday sought a month's time from the Punjab and Haryana high court to submit its final report about the constitution of a state human rights commission. The counsel for the state told the division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar that the meeting to discuss ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the union home ministry to take immediate decision on Punjab government's plea for deputing a specialized team for destroying RDX and other explosives piled up in various police malkhanas. The directions came from a division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar during ...

CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday that the file carrying the report of then Haryana director general of police (DGP) RR Singh regarding the inquiry against accused SPS Rathore, also a former Haryana DGP, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case ...

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 ...