COMMENT22 Apr 2018 | 10:44 PMMuch as the ground water crisis caused by agriculture in Punjab is discussed and well documented, there is another crisis no less serious, and perhaps with graver consequences in the short run, brewing in the state. Poisoning of our waters in rivers, in ground, and on the surface through household effluents released untreated.
22 Apr 2018 | 9:23 PMLUDHIANA: The Punjab Government is committed to procure grains from farmers and the wheat procurement process is going on smoothly in the entire state, newly-inducted Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said on Sunday.
9 more in Capt’s team22 Apr 2018 | 3:45 PMCHANDIGARH: While rewarding his loyalists, Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday sprung a few surprises in the allocation of ministries, ignoring senior Cabinet members.
22 Apr 2018 | 2:19 AMSANGRUR: A day after Sangat Singh Gilzian, Urmur MLA, resigned from Punjab Congress posts to protest non-inclusion in the Cabinet, two more MLAs followed suit on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMCHANDIGARH: Simmering tension in the state Congress was evident as nearly 25 party MLAs stayed away from the swearing-in ceremony of nine newly inducted Cabinet ministers at Punjab Raj Bhavan here on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 3:11 PMLAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Saturday directed the interior ministry to decide within 30 days the fate of an Indian woman seeking Pakistani citizenship and extension to her visa after embracing Islam and marrying a local man during her visit here to attend Baisakhi festival. (Video inside)
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMCHANDIGARH: Hours before nine Punjab MLAs were to take oath as ministers, a petition challenging the Cabinet expansion with their induction was filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMGURDASPUR: The BJP turned out to be a divided house as it welcomed new state party president Shwait Malik during his visit to the city.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court on Saturday extended the visa of Amna Bibi (Kiran Bala) by 30 days.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMJALANDHAR: Having spent four decades in community service, 93-year-old Budh Singh Dhahan breathed his last at Nawanshahr on Friday.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMMOHALI: In the case of attack on Punjabi singer Parmish Verma, the Mohali Police have arrested a 19-year-old BTech student, who was handling the Facebook account of gangster Dilpreet Singh Dhahan and others to issue threats for extortion.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMGURDASPUR: The state Vigilance Department booked the son of a former SAD minister for illegal mining on a complaint by a loyalist of Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMABOHAR: Alleging police laxity in arresting 55-year-old resident of Killianwali village, booked for raping a minor girl, two relatives of the victim on Saturday climbed atop an overhead water tank here.
22 Apr 2018 | 12:32 AMABOHAR: Thirteen persons, including three from Punjab, were injured as a Lok Parivahan (public transport) bus collided with a tractor-trailer and thrasher on the highway near Sriganganagar on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 2:27 AMCHANDIGARH: Hours after inducting nine new ministers in the state Cabinet, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh allocates portfolios on Saturday evening.
21 Apr 2018 | 10:46 PMSANGRUR: Bodies of a woman and a baby were found stuffed in a suitcase in the Dadar-Amritsar Express, railway police said on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 2:27 AMCHANDIGARH: Nine new Cabinet ministers were sworn in at the Raj Bhavan here on Saturday as three Congress MLAs quit their party posts after being ignored in the first expansion of the year-old Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government.
21 Apr 2018 | 5:04 PMCHANDIGARH:The Punjab Police have cautioned the people against a “fake” message being circulated on a mobile application, along with the picture of the Director General of Police (DGP), asking women to call up at a mobile number if they needed help.
21 Apr 2018 | 7:04 PMCHANDIGARH: In the run-up to the Punjab cabinet expansion on Saturday evening, top state leadership spent the day in mollifying the MLAs who have been left out.
21 Apr 2018 | 10:32 PMSANGRUR: Congress’s Amargarh MLA Surjit Dhiman and Nathu Ram, party MLA from Balluana, have resigned from their positions in the Congress party. But they would continue as MLAs, remain in the party and work for the welfare of their voters.
21 Apr 2018 | 8:11 PMCHANDIGARH: Hours before nine Punjab MLAs were to take oath as ministers on Saturday, a public interest litigation was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMCHANDIGARH: The state government will initiate a vaccination campaign against measles-rubella from May 1 as part of a national programme.
21 Apr 2018 | 12:38 PMNEW DELHI:The Punjab Cabinet will finally be expanded on Saturday after Congress president Rahul Gandhi approved the names of nine new ministers in an evening meeting with Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMChandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday condemned the “unbearable and inhuman burden” put on the common man with repeated hikes in the power tariff and demanded a complete rollback, even as it sought removing all hidden charges to ensure power to the industrial sector at the landing cost of Rs 5 per unit.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMBATHINDA: A 28-year-old farmer committed suicide in Mansa district on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMABOHAR: Two women died and their five relatives were seriously injured as the car they were travelling in reportedly rammed into one of the trucks that were waiting outside a wheat godown near Ramsara village, 10 km from here, on the state highway on Friday morning.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMSANGRUR: All main markets of Malerkotla remained closed on Friday and residents organised a protest march, seeking justice for the Kathua rape victim.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMMOHALI: A local court on Friday denied extension of police custody of Harvinder Singh alias Happy, who was arrested from Baddi (Himachal Pradesh) on April 15 in connection with the attack on Punjabi singer Parmish Verma and his friend, Kulwant Singh.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMMUKTSAR: Farmers here have accused commission agents of pocketing 110 gm wheat per bag by overweighing each empty bag of 30-kg capacity as 200 gm, which as per farmers weigh just about 90 gm.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMJALANDHAR: The Hot Mix Plant Owners Association- Punjab in a press conference held here on Friday criticised the senior Punjab government officials heading the Link Roads Scheme 2018 (Rs 1,700-crore projects) for allegedly putting bogus detail notice for inviting tender (DNIT) conditions.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMLUDHIANA: Over 600 acres of inland salt-affected wastelands in Punjab have been converted into aqua farms in the past four years.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMAMRITSAR: Glass gates and the false ceiling of the main building at the Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport were damaged during a thunderstorm on Thursday night.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMMOGA: A Dalit youth was allegedly poisoned to death by two persons at Jai Singh Wala village in Baghapurana subdivision of the district.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMCHANDIGARH: Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) chief and Atam Nagar MLA Simarjit Singh Bains has criticised Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur for demanding a royalty over river waters from Punjab and Haryana.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMJALANDHAR: English medium sections will be introduced from Class VI to IX in 1,800 government schools of the state.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s amended rules which prescribed Rs 5 lakh annual income and conducting 50 cases a year for three consecutive years as additional criteria for direct appointment of advocates as additional district judges (ADJs).
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMSANGRUR: A fire broke out in wheat fields at Kadial village on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMHOSHIARPUR: Five Indian nationals, including four Punjabis, have returned to India from Sharjah (UAE) after their death sentence was waived in a murder case.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMCHANDIAGRH: State BJPpresident Shwait Malik on Friday alleged that the Congress, during recent incidents of violence in Phagwara, had conspired to put Punjab on the brink of a “highly explosive” situation for manipulating Dalit voters in the 2019 General Election.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMBHOGPUR: Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo was cremated at his native Dalli village here on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMFEROZEPUR: Hundreds of teachers on Friday assembled in front of the District Administrative Complex to protest against the FIR lodged against six of their colleagues who were booked by the police on the basis of a complaint lodged by the DPI (Elementary Education) on Thursday.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMNEW DELHI: Justice Rajinder Sachar (retd), former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, will be remembered for his unswerving commitment to the cause of justice for the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMAMRITSAR: Gobind Singh Longowal, SGPC president, has set up a three-member committee to probe the Kiran Bala case.
21 Apr 2018 | 2:01 AMBATHINDA: The SGPC executive committee on Friday gave nod for the construction of a new building for the Sikh Reference Library.