GURDASPUR: Punjab minister for rural development and panchayats and elections Ranjit Singh Brahampura unfurled the national flag at the district-level Republic Day function in Gurdaspur on Wednesday and took salute from an impressive march past performed by contingents of Punjab police, Punjab home guards, ex-servicemen, NCC (boys and girls), girl ...

ROHTAK: The special girdawari in Jhajjar district will be conducted from October 1 for giving compensation to farmers for the crops damaged by floods. Deputy Commissioner Chander Prakash has asked the officials of the Revenue Department to complete the girdawari honestly so that farmers could be given adequate compensation for ...

PATIALA: State Revenue Minister Ajit Singh Kohar has instructed officers of the Revenue Department to complete girdawari in flood-affected areas within three days and send their reports to the Punjab government. He said the government would start disbursing compensation to flood-hit farmers within a week after receiving the girdawari reports. The minister ...

CHANDIGARH: As the flood situation worsened in Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts, Health Minister Geeta Bhukkal on Sunday said relief and rescue measures were being undertaken on war footing in affected areas of the state. The Minister said the officials in the flooded-affected areas had been directed not to leave their ...

PATIALA: Water has started receding from most of the 70 villages in the district which were sub­merged in flood water for the past week. As per a survey conducted by the revenue department, paddy crop, transplanted a week to 10 days ago, has been damaged completely in about half of these ...

LUDHIANA: In yet another massive fraud detected in the deposit of stamp duty at bank treasuries, it has been found that unscrupulous agents have been exploiting the “power of zero” to add a few digits to deposit receipts since 2008. The fraud at the office of the sub-registrar (east) here has ...

NAKODAR: The Punjab government has failed to break the deadlock between its revenue department and postal authorities over the sale of revenue stamps of the denomination of Re 1 through post office. Post offices across Punjab had stopped selling revenue stamps in, February 2005, demanding that their commission be hiked from ...

NAKODAR: Revenue stamps of Rs 1 denomination are being sold on the black market, as these are not available at post offices. The Punjab government is selling revenue stamps through its treasury offices at the sub-divisional level due to a tussle between Revenue Department and the postal authorities. SOURCE-HT

Jumping The Gun Bidder For Institute Takes Possession of OPD ‘ For Religious Function’ Today; Had Held Staff Interviews Earlier JALANDHAR: Ink has not yet been put on the agreement required to hand over the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here to a private party, but the state government seems ...