Rajnish Bhagat has assumed the charge of Vice Chairman of Punjab Genco Limited (100% Subsidiary Company of Punjab Energy Development Agency) today in the presence of NRSE Minister Dr. Raj Kumar Verka and Mahinder Singh KP, Former Cabinet Minister and Chairman Punjab State Technical Education Board. On this occasion Navjot Pal Singh Randhawa, Managing Director, […]
Former Punjab minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia has been booked in a drug racket case, provoking the accusation of “political vendetta” from his party. The FIR was registered Majithia under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at Mohali on Monday. The SAD dubbed the move as “political vendetta”.Talking […]
Senior Congress leader and former Punjab minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi on Tuesday resigned from the party, saying he was “deeply hurt by the bickering and in-fighting” within its state unit. Sodhi, who is the MLA from Guruharsahai in Ferozepur district, was the sports minister in the state government led by Amarinder Singh, who quit […]
Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that national security and the welfare of Punjab was on top of his agenda and hoped that next PLC-BJP goverment will successfully work on that. Addressing a public meeting after inducting senior Congress leader, Jagdish Kumar Jagga into the party, here today, Capt Amarinder said, the two […]
After the alleged sacrilege bid incident in Kapurthala in which an unidentified man was killed by a mob on Sunday, Punjab police officers had at a presser stated that a case of murder had also been registered but soon backtracked on their statement. Inspector General of Police Gurinder Singh Dhillon first said at the press […]
The Opposition Congress on Monday demanded a high court judge-supervised CBI probe into the alleged dental surgeon and HCS officer recruitment scam in Haryana, and the removal of the Haryana Public Service Commission chairman over the issue. Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the chairman of the commission cannot be […]
Cold to severe cold wave conditions are very likely to continue in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh during next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. Cold wave conditions at isolated pockets would likely continue for subsequent 24 hours and very likely to abate thereafter in […]
Giving a much needed relief to trade and industry in the state, the Punjab Government has exempted around 40,000 statutory form related outstanding cases under Central Sales Tax / Value Added Tax (VAT), out of over 48,000 cases related to each of the financial years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Notably, Punjab Chief Minister S. Charanjit […]
Exposing the lies being spread by AAP leadership directly from ground level, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr Charanjit Singh Channi today visited the school in his maternal village Makdona Kalan to show that it was not only perfect but one of the best schools in the state. The Chief Minister during walk from Morinda to […]
The Punjab Government has today formed a high committee to evaluate and consider the demands of contractual employees. notification to this effect has been issued. The said committee would receive proposals within one week from the concerned departments and then undertake next course of action. Disclosing this, an official spokesperson said that the officers committee […]