Chandigarh’s attempts to convert leasehold properties to freehold Chandigarh: Collector rates applicable to institutions in Chandigarh are set for a fresh review, with the administration constituting a high-level committee to determine how different categories of institutional properties should be assessed for the purpose of applying land rates.The move could lead to a revision in the…
Kabarwala panchayat members with the resolution against drugs Bathinda: At a time when drug abuse is taking wider proportions and snatching lives in the most productive age, villages are turning to stringent measures to dissuade the drug trade and people involved with it.The Kabarwala village panchayat, under the Lambi assembly constituency in Muktsar district, decided…
Rohtak: A court in Haryana’s Rohtak district on Wednesday convicted former INLD MLA Balbir Singh alias Bali Pehalwan and six others for the 2011 murder of a man during a violent clash at a grain market in Kalanaur.Bali Pehalwan is a two-time legislator from Meham constituency.Arguments on the quantum of sentencing are scheduled for Thursday.On…
Jalandhar: Jalandhar Rural Police have arrested the husband and mother-in-law of college lecturer Neha Bassi, who allegedly died after being forced to consume toilet cleaner. The couple’s daughter has also been recovered.Police arrested Umang Bassi and his mother Kusum Bassi from Ujjain. Kartarpur DSP Narinder Singh Aujla said the two were being brought to Jalandhar.Police…
Aam Aadmi Party MP Malvinder Singh Kang Chandigarh: AAP MP Malvinder Singh Kang on Wednesday accused the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) of becoming a “centre of loot”, alleging selective action against shopkeepers during a demolition drive in Saini Majra village in Mohali.Kang, whose Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha constituency includes the village, visited the…
Chandigarh: Almost a month after Akal Takht rejected the Punjab govt’s response to its objections over provisions of the anti-sacrilege law, Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, 2026, and asked it to reach consensus with a five-member panel within two months, there has been no progress.The AAP govt is yet to contact…
Chandigarh: Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on Tuesday claimed that FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police have warned him that he faces “a new credible threat to his life”.Pannun, general counsel for Sikhs For Justice, said he was warned by FBI agents who visited him last Thursday that he should not travel until the threat…
Kharar: A 28-year-old man from Ludhiana died after he was allegedly shot by a licensed pistol that accidentally discharged while he and his friends were checking firearms at a flat in Mittal Paradise, Shivalik City, Kharar, in the early hours of Aug 25. Police have booked one of his friends and launched an investigation into…
Congress functionaries alleged that govt policies have squeezed household budgets, forcing ordinary citizens to bear the brunt of economic challenges. Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Pradesh Congress Committee organised a “sugar langar” at Congress Bhawan in Sector 35 on Wednesday to protest the rising prices of essential food items under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central govt.A…
Aam Aadmi Party MP Malvinder Singh Kang during his visit to Saini Majra village in Mohali on Wednesday Mohali: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Malvinder Singh Kang on Wednesday criticised the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) over a demolition drive in Saini Majra village, calling the agency a “centre of loot” and alleging selective…
