Amritsar: Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the recurring controversies surrounding recruitment and competitive examinations in Punjab, saying the repeated irregularities have severely undermined the confidence of the state’s youth in the fairness of the recruitment process. In a statement issued here on…
Chandigarh: Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday claimed that the nearly two-month strike by MGNREGA/VB-GRAM G employees had ended after the govt accepted all the union’s “genuine demands”, clearing the way for the statewide rollout of the VB-G RAM G initiative from Thursday.After a meeting with representatives of the MGNREGA/VB-GRAM G Employees’ Union,…
Mohali: The special NIA court in Mohali has issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Pakistan-based terror suspect and social media influencer Shahzad Bhatti, who is believed to be hiding in Brazil, in connection with a grenade attack on the residence of Jalandhar-based YouTuber. The warrant strengthens the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) efforts to seek…
Barnala: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Punjab chief secretary and the director general of police (DGP), seeking a detailed action taken report within two weeks on the police lathicharge on protesting sanitation workers in Barnala last week.Taking cognisance of a complaint alleging excessive use of force, the rights panel…
Mohali: Rajya Sabha MP Satnam Singh Sandhu on Tuesday urged the Centre to establish a legally backed joint flood management mechanism for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, citing recurring floods and shrinking reservoir capacity due to siltation.Raising the issue through a special mention in the Rajya Sabha, Sandhu called for a long-term flood mitigation strategy…
Chandigarh: The marketing season for paddy produced last year will end in Sept, but 32 lakh MT of the crop is still stacked in Punjab’s rice mills, waiting to be processed into rice.With only two months left before paddy procurement begins, Punjab is staring at an acute shortage of storage space.The paddy cannot be milled…
Bathinda: The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued notice to the Punjab govt and other respondents on a petition seeking cancellation of the written examination for 454 pharmacy officer posts over allegations of an organised interstate cheating racket.While seeking replies by Aug 10, the court said the ongoing recruitment process would remain subject to…
Amritsar: The Amritsar Commissionerate police has recovered over 111.5 kg of heroin, registered 1,137 NDPS cases and arrested over 2,000 suspects in the past seven months, Amritsar police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said on Wednesday.Bhullar told the media that under the anti-gangster campaign, ‘Gangstran Te Vaar’, police registered 63 Arms Act cases and arrested 153…
Bathinda: Student, youth, farmer and employee organisations and Congress staged separate protests outside Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) in Faridkot against alleged paper leaks and the recent controversy surrounding the examination for pharmacy officer posts.Demanding the resignations of Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains and health minister Dr Balbir Singh, the protesters accused…
Jalandhar: Amritpal Singh, who was recently named on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) wanted list during a major crackdown on three India-based transnational organised crime groups, died in a road accident in his native village of Mowai, Jalandhar, on Feb 19 last year.His father Harwinder Singh, a former village sarpanch, told TOI on Wednesday…
