SAS NAGAR: Making it mandatory for all political parties as well as candidates to take written permission before organising rallies and using loudspeakers and vehicles during election campaigns, the election com­mission will set up a single-window system for the purpose. Stating this on Thursday, Varun Roojam, deputy commissioner-cum-district election officer, SAS Nagar, ...

SAS NAGAR: Following the incident of mass copying detected by a flying squad in Amritsar, the Punjab State Education Board (PSEB) has decided to install CCTV cameras at examination centers in four districts with immediate effect. The four districts are Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Pathankot. This is for the first ...

SAS NAGAR: The Punjab crime branch has recovered from Delhi an Amritsar girl, Pooja (15), who had been missing for the past three years. The case was handed over to the SSP, crime branch, Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, by the Punjab and Haryana high court after a habeas corpus petition was ...

SAS NAGAR: Pointing out major discrepancies in voter lists for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Hardeep Singh, a local candidate, has written to the chief election commissioner, gurdwaras. Talking to media persons, Singh alleged, 'There are about 450 persons whose names have not been included in the lists despite the ...

SAS NAGAR: A local court in SAS Nagar on Tuesday sent Aikom Singh Dhillon, senior manager of the four government-funded farm councils, in judicial custody. Dhillon, one of the main accused in the multi-crore scam of farm councils, was absconding after his name figured in the case. He surrendered before ...

SAS NAGAR: The police remand of Aikom Singh Dhillon, senior manager of the four government-funded farm councils, was extended by two days on Thursday. Dhillon, one of the main accused in the multi-crore scam of farm councils, was absconding after his name figured in the case. He finally surrendered before the court ...

SAS NAGAR: Another witness was declared hostile in the corruption case against Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon on Wednesday. Deposing before the court of additional district and sessions judge Rajinder Aggarwal, senior assistant, rural development, SK Verma denied knowledge of irregularities in the purchase of JCB machines. Verma said ...

SAS NAGAR: Up in arms against the implementation of the Punjab Civil Services Act 2011, rural veterinary officers (RVO) working under zila parishads have threatened to launch a statewide agitation from July 21 if the state government fails withdraw the decision or keep their services out of the act's ambit. Addressing ...

SAS NAGAR NEWS: The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has decided to give a 'golden' chance to students who got a compartment or failed in, or want to improve their results of, class 8,10 and 12 exams held between March 2002 and March 2011. Candidates will have to pay Rs 3,000 ...

SAS NAGAR: The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), SAS Nagar, will declare the Class 12 results on June 6 and Class 10 results on June 15. The exams for which were held in March and April this year. In Class 12, over 3 lakh students appeared, while in Class 10, over ...

SAS NAGAR: Despite deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s order, the SAS Nagar police have yet to register a criminal case against two policemen involved in an incident of disrespect shown to the turban of a Sikh agitator in SAS Nagar last week. On Monday, the deputy chief minister had ordered ...

SAS NAGAR: A day after the SAS Nagar police booked former Akali leader Yadwinder Singh Buttar and three others in connection with a Rs 10-lakh fraud, Buttar denied the allegations on Tuesday, claiming that it was a political conspiracy against him. Talking to HT, Buttar said, "It is a politically motivated ...

SAS NAGAR: A former Akali leader now in the camp of ousted finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal is suspect in Rs­ l0-lakh swindle. The district police have registered a case against Yadwinder Singh Buttar, former Youth Akali Dal leader from Gurdaspur local property dealer Kulwinder Singh; and Raghbir Singh, farmer at ...