CHANDIGARH: The union government has reportedly approved the appointment of Dilsher Singh Kalha, an IAS officer of the Punjab cadre of 1977, as secretary, department of pharmaceuticals, ministry of chemicals and fertilizers, it is learnt. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab police have approached the Punjab and Haryana high court against the union government's decision to shift the 120-year-old Punjab Police Academy (PPA) out of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Fort at Phillaur after declaring it a heritage site. Taking up the petition, the division bench headed by Justice MM Kumar ...

CHANDIGARH: Union law and justice minister Salman Khurshid here on Sunday announced that the union government would soon amend the Anand Marriage Act 1909 so that Sikhs could register their marriages in courts under the Act. "The Act should be introduced with an amendment that would cut across geographical boundaries and ...

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday ridiculed Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh for asking the SAD to hold morchas in Paris in front of the French President's residence to get the turban issue resolved, saying that the former chief minister was trying to cover up failures of ...

CHANDIGARH:Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday dared Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh to press the Congress-led union government for a CBI probe into the Sehajdhari notification with­ drawal controversy. "The failed 'Operation High Court' had the stamp of a typical Amarinder stunt, based on brazen lies, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Delhi High Court has stayed the cm prose ecution against Arvind Khanna, a former Congress MLA from Sangrur, in a case related to the violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The court passed these orders on Wednesday on a petition filed by Khanna, his counsel Atul ...

CHANDIGARH: Demanding tabling of the Land Acquisition Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament and amendments in the already fabled Pesticides Management Bill and Seed Bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha will hold a demonstration outside Parliament House on August 3. This was stated by the national president of ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab government to make a time frame for putting in place the public transport system, primarily in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. The division bench, headed by acting chief justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, issued the directions during the resumed hearing of a ...

LUDHIANA: More than 33,000 chemists and druggists across the state have decided to observe a day long strike on August 22 against the proposed draft rules to amend the Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945. The strike is part of a nation wide call by the All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), ...

CHANDIGARH: Providing relief to a freedom fighter, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the union government to release his pension as per recommendations of the Punjab government. The directions came from the bench headed by justice K Kannan on a petition filed by freedom fighter Jarnail Singh of Alampur ...

BADHNI KALAN (MOGA): The Punjab government soon will transfer civil and police officers as required by the Election Commission of India. "The process of making the lists has started already," deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal told the media- on Thursday at the Sangat Darshan programme in Badhni Kalan village of ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday appealed to the Centre to immediately accede to the demands of yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who is on a fast-unto­ death against rampant corruption and black money in the country. In a statement, Badal asked the Centre to accord the highest ...

TARN TARAN(Punjab News): The resignations of ministers have nothing to do with corruption charges, Tikshan Sud BJP's legislature party's leader, has said. The timing of submission of resignation by party ministers had led people to speculate that it was triggered by the corruption charges Sud told the press on Thursday Tarn ...