DHARAMSHALA: For the second consecutive day of the winter session, Congress created ruckus inside the state assembly on Tuesday, making an otherwise calm and composed chief minister Jai Ram Thakur attack the opposition aggressively. If the opposition was not happy with the clubbing of adjournment notice under Rule 67 into discussion under Rule 130, the […]
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Light rain forecast for December 12 and 13
Chandigarh The Met department on Tuesday issued a forecast through SMS, informing residents about light to moderate rainfall expected on December 12 and 13. According to weathermen, the days and nights both will turn colder this week with clouds making their way to the city. Mist and shallow fog will continue this week. The message […]
Punjab notifies rule to appoint retired bureaucrat as PCA head
CHANDIGARH: Circumventing directions of the Supreme Court to appoint retired judge of the high court as chairperson of the state Police Complaints Authority (PCA), the Punjab government has finally notified the Punjab Police (Appointment of Chairperson and Members of Complaint Authorities) Rules, 2019, which will allow the state to instead appoint a retired officer of […]
Free education for Army preparatory school for poor students
Chandigarh To facilitate economically backward students from the state aspiring to get into the armed forces, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday decided that the government would bear the cost of poor students at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (MRSAFPI), Mohali, for their Class XI and XII education. The institute has tied […]
2002 Gujarat riots: Nanavati Commission gives clean chit to Narendra Modi, ministers
New Delhi The Nanavati Commission report on the 2002 Gujarat riots gives a clean chit to the state government then led by Narendra Modi, who has been Prime Minister of India since 2014. Action should be taken against the police who were ineffective in controlling mobs and did not show the “competence necessary” to do […]
Punjab government staffers to continue strike today
Punjab Employees of a few departments of the state government on Monday observed a pen-down strike in protest against unpaid salaries for the month of November. The employees of technical education and industrial training, irrigation, industry and education departments also held a protest rally here over the issue.Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal had earlier said […]
Teacher Blackens Faces of 6 Students in Haryana for Poor Performance in Test
Haryana A teacher of a private school in Haryana’s Hisar allegedly painted the face of six students, including two girls, black and paraded them inside the school for getting low marks in English language test. The incident took place on Friday and one of the girls, a 9-year-old Dalit, informed her parents about it. Her […]
Himachal CM welcomes passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill in LS
Shimla Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday welcomed the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha. “Rising above the differences, the Modi government takes all sections along with it. The latest example of this is the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019. Devbhoomi Himachal congratulates the Centre and all the honourable […]
UT’s ‘immediate onion relief’ to take more time
Chandigarh The Chandigarh Administration’s claims of making onions available at nominal cost have been belied as the Centre has informed them that it will take 10 more days to supply those onions. The administration had announced around a week ago that they would make onions available at the rate of Rs 60-65 per kg as ‘immediate relief’ […]
Soon, make digital payments aboard CTU buses
Chandigarh Commuters on the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) buses, both local and long-route ones, will soon be able to make digital payments for tickets in addition to cash payments. The UT transport department has initiated the process of introducing electronic ticket vending machines compatible with digital payments. Confirming the development, Uma Shankar Gupta, additional secretary, […]










