24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: Unseasonal rain and high-velocity winds that troubled farmers for two days in the previous week continue to trouble them now as procurement agencies in the district have written to Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma that it was not possible for them to procure wheat that is arriving in mandis across the district due to its high-moisture content.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: Scheduled Caste (SC) and backward classes students of the CT Group of Institutions, Shahpur Campus, under the banner of the Punjab Students Union have staged a protest against the university authorities here today near bus stand for allegedly demanding a “blank cheque” against their pending fees.
Lok Sabha Polls 201924 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: Having badly lost the three Assembly elections in 2007, 2012 and 2017, CPI (ML) New Democracy leader Kashmir Singh Ghugshore (40) again came in the fray today for his fourth elections and this time as the Jalandhar Lok Sabha candidate.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMPHAGWARA: With the announcement of the BJP high command to allot the BJP ticket to Phagwara MLA Som Prakash from the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday evening, the infighting in the BJP could be accelerated as the BJP is being seen divided in two different factions led by Som Prakash and Union Minister Vijay Sampla.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: A day after having formally submitted his nomination papers for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat, sitting Congress MP and candidate Chaudhary Santokh Singh today put up a fresh set of papers making a correction in his affidavit.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: Cleanliness at the city railway station has been hit due to the absence of the sanitation workers. Waiting rooms, washrooms and platforms have been extended over the area with filth and garbage.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: As per the directions issued by the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jalandhar Varinder Kumar Sharma, to check the sale of artificial ripening of fruits, especially mangoes, at the local fruit and vegetable market, a team of mandi board officers, led by District Mandi Officer Varinder Khera, inspected the fruit and vegetable markets in the morning here today.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: “Nadhoo Khan”, a periodic romantic drama movie is all set to hit the silver screen on April 26. The movie stars Harish Verma and Wamiqa Gabbi in the lead roles, who were here in the city today to promote the film. The movie has already received lakhs of views on the social media.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMPHAGWARA: Five persons, including four members of a family, were seriously injured in a collision that took place between a truck and a car near Chiheru on the national highway here this morning.
CAMPUS NOTES24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: Jaspreet Kaur of Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, bagged the 1st position in the university exams of MSc, Physics (Sem III) with 451/ 600 marks. Priyanka Dadwal of the same class bagged the 3rd position with 429/600.
24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMJALANDHAR: SAD MLA Pawan Kumar Tinu today filed a complaint against Bhogpur block development programme officer Ram Lubhaya for violating the model code of conduct.
Briefly24 Apr 2019 | 8:28 AMPHAGWARA: The house of Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of Chahal Nagar locality, was reportedly burgled on Monday night.
Briefly23 Apr 2019 | 10:16 AMPHAGWARA: Gurnam Chand, a resident of Paddi-Jagir village, reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree on Sunday. The police said stress was said to be the cause behind the extreme step.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:15 AMJALANDHAR: The ongoing exhibition of silk and cotton traders under the theme ‘Shopping Fest-19’ at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, being organised to promote world famous hand knitted designs, including block printed fabric, Koa fabric, Cikan, cotton and silk fabrics by artisans from across the country, has failed to serve the purpose as only 50 to 70 residents have attended the fest so far.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:15 AMJALANDHAR: Hindi novelist Ajay Sharma’s petro fiction ‘Basra ki Galian’, on which 10 MPhils have been completed and is prescribed in MA Hindi (Sem I) in Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar and Punjabi University, Patiala, has been translated into English as ‘Basra Streets’ by Sandeep Chahal, an English Professor at Doaba College.
Lok Sabha Polls 201923 Apr 2019 | 10:14 AMHOSHIARPUR: Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Isha Kalia said: “Vehicles carrying electronic Voting Machines EVM and Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines to the booths and back will be fitted with GPS devices so that the vehicles carrying machines can be monitored.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:15 AMHOSHIARPUR: Anil Kumar Lubana, the Expenditure Observer (EO), appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha constituency, reached here today.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:15 AMJALANDHAR: In a recent circular issued to schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the board has asked the schools to make ‘Art Education’, a mandatory subject for the students of Class I to Class II.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:14 AMHOSHIARPUR: The police have booked 11 inmates of the Hoshiarpur Central Jail under various sections of the IT Act and Prisons Act for reportedly uploading a video and selfies on social media from the jail.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:13 AMPHILLAUR: After the mysterious deaths of three residents during the past two days in nearby Gannapind village, which was adopted by Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary, the ongoing election campaign came to a halt in the village here today.
23 Apr 2019 | 7:55 AMJALANDHAR: Farmers found their mention in Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s speech today. The latter was in the city to accompany sitting MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh in filing his nomination papers.
Fight against stubble burning23 Apr 2019 | 10:13 AMJALANDHAR: The Agriculture Department will soon be releasing a book which will include success stories of farmers and villages that stopped burning paddy stubble last year.
23 Apr 2019 | 10:13 AMJALANDHAR: The crowd at a rally organised by the Congress during the filing of nomination papers of Jalandhar Lok Sabha candidate and sitting MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh today was apparently not much responsive.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMPHAGWARA: Commission Agents Association president Naresh Bhardwaj has been appointed secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee by PPCC president Sunil Jakhar.
College notes22 Apr 2019 | 8:15 AMDASUYA (HOSHIARPUR): College magazine ‘Virat Sandesh’ and annual report of the JCDAV College, Dasuya, was released during the 45th Annual Convocation and 26th Prize Distribution function held on the college campus.
School Notes22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMSafety week was celebrated from April 10-12 with great zeal. Various activities were organised on the campus to mark the occasion.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:14 AMJALANDHAR: For Harsimran Kaur’s father, it is a reply to all those who had one told him that after two daughters, he should have had a son.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMJALANDHAR: With just 28 days left for the Lok Sabha polls in the state, the State Election Commission is keeping a watch over criminal activities in the state.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:15 AMJALANDHAR: Members of the Bibi Bhani Complex Allottees (Pidit) Association and residents of Master Gurbanta Singh Enclave held a peaceful protest-cum-meeting against the Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) here today on the Bibi Bhani Complex premises, demanding redressal of their grievances.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMPHILLAUR: Three drugs addicts, identified as Karnail Singh, Gurmail Singh and Tersem Lal, died due to alleged overdose of drugs in the past two days in Gaanapind village near here.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMJALANDHAR: The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), in association with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Germany, organised a seminar on the recent developments, issues, audit and annual return under GST in which DS Garcha, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner (AETC), Jalandhar, was the chief guest.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:16 AMJALANDHAR: A total of 526 students from the district today appeared in the entrance examination for the Meritorious School on Sunday.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMJALANDHAR: Punjab Roadways/ Punbus Contract Workers Union held a meeting at the city bus stand on Sunday, in which they urged the government to put an end to the recruitment of workers through outsource contractual process.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMPHAGWARA: A cricket match was organised bythe local administration in collaboration with Lovely Professional University at the LPU Campus on Sunday.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:12 AMJALANDHAR: Nearly 116 years ago, on April 13, 1913, the foundation of the Ghadar Party was laid by some Indians in California. Starting off a movement of overseas Indians, an integral part of the Ghadar movement was the country’s peasantry, which was instrumental is mobilising a revolution against the British during the freedom struggle.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMJALANDHAR: Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma today asked the Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) to be more vigilant to ensure effective and transparent functioning of the expenditure monitoring teams in the district.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:11 AMJALANDHAR: The Jalandhar (Rural) police arrested two persons and busted a gang of vehicle lifters who were caught along with an Innova car bearing the registration number PB-32-H-4032.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:07 AMJALANDHAR: Filing of nominations for the Lok Sabha polls is going to start from tomorrow in the district. The nominations for the General Elections would be received by the Deputy Commissioner who is also the District Election Officer in his court from 11 am to 3 pm.
22 Apr 2019 | 8:11 AMHARIANA (HOSHIARPUR): The Hoshiarpur-Dasuya road remained blocked for around three hours today by the family members of a youth Vinay who had died on Saturday in a road accident on the Hariana-Dasuya road.