JALANDHAR: Members of various Sikh organizations on Sunday held a march in the city to lodge their protest against the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajowana. The members started their protest march from Model Town Gurudwara that culminated at Guru Mission Chowk. They were holding placards in their hands with the slogans that ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Friday suspended a tehsildar, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, posted at Amritsar, with immediate effect, an official spokesman said here. Sharma would be in the office of the commissioner, Faridkot division, during the period of suspension, the spokesman Tehsildar suspended after complaint added. When contacted, the financial commissioner ...

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 ...

AMRITSAR: A 17-year-old boy chopped off his tongue in a temple some 30-km from here to propitiate the presiding deity, Goddess Chawanda Devi. Baljit Singh, aged 17, who cut off his tongue, is a regular visitor to the temple, his family members and the temple priest said. He was rushed to a ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has ordered the dismissal of two PPS officers DSPs Parminder Singh and Bhupinder Singh after their convictions by special judge Hoshiarpur on September 19, 2011, and Faridkot district and sessions judge on September 30, 2009, respectively. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: Campaigning in the election-bound Punjab, union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday pitched for FDI in multi-brand retail, emphasizing once again that India needs massive investments to build agri-infrastructure. Pointing out that the SAD­ led Punjab government had initially welcomed the FDI policy but took a U-turn later; Mukherjee described ...

NADALA (KAPURTHALA): Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday lambasted Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for rendering Punjab a backward state during the SAD­ BJP's five-year rule. Attacking the SAD-BJP government, Hooda alleged that Punjab government misused the central government funds meant for the poor. Addressing an impressive rally ...

BATHINDA: The state government of the Shiromani Akali Dal failed to use 70% money from the Centre, Vijay Inder Singla, Member of Parliament from Sangrur, has claimed. Blaming the state government for the increasing influence and supply of drugs in Punjab, the MP said its promises of employment to the youth ...

CHANDIGARH: On a public interest litigation seeking directions to the Punjab government to provide night shelters for the poor in all cities/towns of the state and to see that no one dies of cold, the Punjab and Haryana high court has issued notice of motion to the state. The petition filed ...

CHANDIGARH: On the directions of the Election Commission of India (ECI), 14 officers of the labour department and 19 from the co­ operation department have been transferred. Among those shifted are three officers of the rank of assistant director ill the horticulture department and three soil conservation officers. Also, Praveen Sabharwal ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Sunday issued postings and transfer orders of two IPS officers with immediate effect, deputing Kuldeep Singh as ACP West Amritsar against a vacant post and Neelanbari Jagadale Vijay as ACP West Jalandhar.  SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Wednesday issued the posting orders of six PCS officers, who were transferred on Tuesday Jasdeep Singh Aulakh has been posted as deputy director, colonization, and secretary, subordinate services selection board. Kamal Kumar will be the estate officer of housing and urban development, GMADA; while Parwinder ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Thursday issued the transfer and posting orders for four PPS officers, appointing three of them as superintendent of police (SP) in the chief minister's security. These SPs are Jaspal Singh, Swarandeep Singh and Ranbir Singh. Another PPS officer, Malwinder Singh, has been posted as zonal SP/crime ...