Sunish Bindlish from Yamunanagar Yamunanagar: Senior advocate Sunish Bindlish, who has roots in Yamunanagar, has been appointed an additional judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court. The Union govt issued the notification for his appointment on Aug 20. The Bindlish family has had a longstanding presence in Yamunanagar’s social and business circles.Continuing the family’s…
Narnaul: A 36-year-old Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) personnel was killed after being hit by a freight train on the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) line near New Ateli railway station on Monday.RPSF is a wing of the RPF.The deceased, Preetam Singh of Jhal village in Rewari district, was posted in Hooghly, West Bengal. He had…
PAU’s new wheat variety, PBW 887 Ludhiana: Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed and released a new wheat variety, PBW 887, for timely sown and irrigated conditions in Punjab, reporting higher yield potential, good grain quality and moderate resistance to major diseases.PBW 887 recorded 1.4% higher yield than PBW 872, released by PAU last year,…
Punjab power minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond Chandigarh: The Punjab govt on Tuesday said 63,702 consumers who received provisional electricity bills during the April-July meter readers’ strike would not lose their 300-unit free power benefit, even as Congress MLA and former IAS officer Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal questioned the billing errors and demanded accountability.Power minister Tarunpreet Singh…
Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon Bathinda: Aiming to confront the Aam Aadmi Party govt in Punjab over employee issues, mainly pending instalments of dearness allowance (DA) for govt employees and dearness relief (DR) for govt pensioners, Shiromani Akali Dal, Congress and BJP have announced support for the Aug 27 protest by employees and pensioners.A…
SAD (Punar Surjit) president Giani Harpreet Singh Chandigarh: The 2027 Assembly election appears to be bringing arch-rivals together in Punjab. Even as BJP insists it will contest all 117 Punjab seats on its own, Shiromani Akali Dal (Punar Surjit) is exploring an alliance with the saffron party. Unusually, it is also considering a three-way arrangement…
BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santosh in Punjab Chandigarh: B L Santosh, the BJP national general secretary (organisation), on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party govt of “ruining Punjab in every sphere”. He also hit out at the Congress, saying the party failed to perform the role of an effective opposition.“Instead of carrying…
Ropar: AAP MLA Dinesh Chadha on Tuesday alleged large-scale illegal dumping of hazardous industrial and chemical waste in the Bard Khad and Sirsa riverbeds along Punjab’s borders with Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, and sought immediate inter-state action against the manufacturing units allegedly responsible.During an inspection of sites at Bhudd Barrier, Madhanwala and Nawan Nagar, Chadha…
Mohali: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Punjab chief secretary and senior IAS officer Anurag Verma on Aug 31 in connection with alleged irregularities involving change of land use (CLU) permissions and layout modifications in major real estate projects, including Suntec City and Altus Space Builder Private Limited.The investigation is examining the circumstances under…
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