CHANDIGARH – The police today used tear gas and water canons to thwart Punjab Youth Congress activists from marching towards the residence of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. It arrested State Youth Congress president Vikramjit Chaudhary and rounded up Anandpur Sahib MP Ravneet Bittu.
Congress activists, who congregated at the Congress Bhawan here, proceeded to “gherao” [...]
CHANDIGARH – Allowing concessions in the name of ‘tax retention’, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal unfolded the state’s new industrial policy with liberal fiscal incentives for the manufacturing, textile, agro and food processing, electronics, hardware and Information Technology sectors.
The concessions will be given to new units coming up at approved industrial parks and focal [...]
Opium, poppy husk, bhang and ganja are in demand!
PATIALA – Farmers in the state once lured migrants with ease and fed them with “makki di roti” and “sarson da saag”. However, off late, the situation has changed and due to an acute shortage of migrant labourers in northern states, especially at the onset of the [...]
ABOHAR – Angry at no arrangements being made for the ultrasound examination of a 13-year-old rape victim even after four days of the crime, members of the Brick Kiln Workers Union and the Anti-Corruption Bureau, led by Puran Chand and Bhagirath Swami, held a protest against the police and the Health Department here today.
The victim’s [...]
CHANDIGARH – Sand may soon be available through open warehouses that too at half the market price. The government has decided to dig up river-beds for providing sand to consumers at controlled rates.
The SAD-BJP Government has been drawing flak because of the exorbitant price of sand. There are also allegations that a sand mafia is [...]
AMRITSAR – The SGPC has deposited a court fee of Rs 10 crore in the 28-year-old legal battle seeking Rs 1,000 crore in compensation from the Union Government for the damages caused to the Golden Temple during the 1984 Operation Bluestar.
SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar said they had deposited the fee in the Delhi High [...]
ROPAR – The Himachal government has imposed entry tax on the road to Guru Ka Lahore Gurdwara. Several lakh Sikh pilgrims visit the shrine, where tenth Sikh guru Gobind Singh had got married. It is situated in Bilaspur district, 12 km from Anandpur Sahib.
The proposal to set up the booth was mooted during the previous [...]
CHANDIGARH – With the Punjab Congress baying for his removal owing to various scams in his ministry, Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka is in a damage-control mode. He has urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to order an inquiry by a third party into the alleged irregularities in the supply of schoolbooks.
The minister put up [...]
CHANDIGARH – Khemkaran SAD legislator Virsa Singh Valtoha today alleged that rogue elements in the Border Security Force (BSF) as well as government agencies were involved in drug smuggling from across the barbed wire fence with Pakistan.
Addressing mediapersons here today, Valtoha, who also released a letter written to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the [...]
AMRITSAR – The Golden Temple seems to have been regaining its glitter with the annual exercise of cleaning up its gold plates underway for the last few days.
The cleaning operation has become an annual feature at the holy shrine ever since the gold plates were replaced way back in 1999 after a period of 170 [...]
