Punjab BJP office attacked with petrol bomb in Sangrur SANGRUR: A petrol bomb was allegedly hurled at the BJP office in Sangrur late on Monday night, following which police officials reached the spot and launched an investigation. CCTV footage from the area is also being examined as part of the probe.Sangrur SP-D Davinder Atri said…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday paid tribute to soldiers who laid down their lives in the 1999 Kargil War, reaffirming the state’s commitment to serving personnel, ex-servicemen and the families of fallen heroes while urging young people to join the armed forces.Marking Kargil Vijay Diwas at the War Memorial, Mann laid a…
Chandigarh: Leader of the opposition Partap Singh Bajwa has written to Punjab assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, urging him to allocate adequate time during the upcoming session starting Aug 3 for a detailed debate on key state issues. Asserting that the vidhan sabha must serve as an effective forum for accountability, Bajwa requested that the…
The incident was captured on CCTV cameras installed outside the house Chandigarh: A group of seven unidentified miscreants allegedly hurled petrol bombs at a house in Chandigarh’s Sector 25 during the early hours of Sunday, setting a parked scooter on fire and attempting to ignite the residential property. The incident was captured on CCTV cameras…
The findings revealed that children were first exposed to screens at an average age of 17.5 months, with 68% starting screen use before reaching 18 months A mother sitting and holding her child while looking at smartphone with blank white screen Chandigarh: Introducing toddlers to digital screens before 18 months of age is linked to…
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday welcomed the proposed Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, but said stronger punishment alone was not enough and called for empowering states to conduct examinations for their own recruitments and institutions.In a written statement, SAD functionary Daljit Singh Cheema said, “While stronger punishment for those…
Sonipat: Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Hooda, on Saturday demanded the resignation of the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) chairman over alleged paper leak cases in the state and called on chief minister Nayab Singh Saini to accept responsibility for what he described as a collapse of the recruitment system.Addressing a public gathering at Farmana…
Shimla: The Army Training Command (ARTRAC), Shimla, on Sunday paid tribute to the soldiers who laid down their lives during the 1999 Kargil War, marking the 27th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas with a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the Shradhhanjali Sthal in Annandale.Lieutenant General Devendra Sharma, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, ARTRAC, led the tributes by laying…
Chandigarh: Punjab govt has released Rs 28 crore under the Ashirwad Scheme in 2026-27, providing relief to 5,492 Scheduled Caste beneficiaries across 19 districts, social justice, empowerment and minorities minister Dr Baljit Kaur said on Sunday.She said the financial assistance would help economically weaker families solemnise their daughters’ marriages with dignity and confidence.She said, “Based…
Charkhi Dadri: Two 15-year-old schoolboys who went missing from Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district were safely reunited with their families after police tracked them down nearly 1,300 kilometres away in Surat, Gujarat, following a swift investigation aided by cyber tracking. According to police, the boys, both Class 9 students, left their school on July 21 after…
