Post-matric scholarship: Notices to Edu. institutions for missing Rs 438 crore
Post-matric scholarship: Notices issued to Educational institutions in search of missing Rs 438 crore. Chandigarh(Narinder Jagga): The Punjab Government has started process to issue notices to 1831 educational Institutes in search the missing amount Rs 438.80 crore of Post-matric scholarship. In the audit, conducted by the Punjab Government, 79,532 admissions of SC students are found
Congress leaders hold ‘Run for Rahul’ marathon
Jalandhar – Punjab Youth Congress organised ‘Run for Rahul’ – a marathon on Friday at Guru Gobind Singh Stadium to spread the message of antidrug drive initiated by the state government. Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Punjab Vijay Inder Singla said that due to the concerted efforts of the Chief Minister this menace has been wiped
Punjabi youths in US jails: Harsimrat seeks Sushma’s intervention
Chandigarh – Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday urged Union External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to take up the issue of identifying Punjabis detained at Oregon detention centre in the United States as well as intervening with her US counterparts to ensure they received consular as well as legalaccess.In a statement here, Harsimrat
American dream landing Punjabi youths in US jails
Washington – Chasing the American dream, Bunty Singh (not his real name) illegally entered the US after crisscrossing several countries, but landed in an immigration detention centre in New Mexico where he has been languishing for the last 16 months. Hailing from a middle-class family of Jalandhar, Singh, whose father is in Punjab Police and mother a
AAP holds state-wide protests against attack on MLA
Chandigarh – The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday burnt effigies and raised slogans against the Congress government in state-wide protests after its legislator Amarjit Singh Sandoa was allegedly attacked by members of a sand mining mafia in Rupnagar district. Sandoa was visiting a quarry on Thursday to verify reports of illegal sand mining in Rupnagar’s
Radisson Blu Hotel MBD and MBD Neopolis Mall celebrated International Yoga Day
Synchronizing their breaths for a healthy mind body and soul, guests and employees of the Radisson Blu Hotel MBD and MBD Neopolis Mall celebrated International Yoga day on Thursday. It was organized by Espace gym of the hotel at its Paisley banquet and at pool terrace, famous Yoga instructor Shaweta guided participants in performing Yoga. “Though
Manje Bistre 2: Know who has replaced Sonam opposite Gippy
After the release of ‘Carry On Jatta 2’, Gippy Grewal has been keeping his fans busy by posting various pictures and videos from the shooting of ‘Manje Bistre 2’. The movie is slated to hit the theaters next year, but the shoot in Canada has already begun and the stars of the film keep on updating the
SAD-BJP delegation meets GUV, seeks inquiry on forest officials assaults
Chandigarh – A joint Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation today submitted a memorandum to Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore and enjoined him to direct the State government to hold a judicial inquiry into the murderous assault on forest officials by the sand mafia in Mohali as well as into illegal
CCI is likely to purchase cotton at commercial rate in Punjab
Chandigarh(Narinder Jagga): Despite a good quality, the White gold (Cotton) of Punjab has been losing its shine in the National Market. Known as cash crop, the area under crop has been declining. 15 years ago, the area under the crop was more than 7.5 lacs hectare, which has now decreased to 2.84 lacs hectare. There
Gauahar Khan inaugurate Makeup & Hair Academy in Punjab
Gauahar Khan inaugurate Makeup & Hair Academy in Punjab: Make up is impeccable in todays day to day life. Be it a young teen or women in her 50’s every body wants to be the centre of the party. After all who doesn’t like to have a lime light & liltle words of praise. So,
Singer cum actor Sippy Gill’s new power-pack song ‘Gym 2’ release
Sippy Gill is a professional singer based out of Punjab. Punjabi lyricist and singer has been learning music from Guru Surinder Dhir since 1999. Singer learning music since he was 15 year old and debut with his first album Jhumka, for he worked with music producer, Gurmeet Singh, and musicians like Sukhpal Singh. Then singer came up with new release in 2008 and become the high rated album in
SAD to give memos to DCs for cutting tax on petrol and diesel
Chandigarh – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will launch a statewide drive to put pressure on the Punjab government to reduce its share of the taxes on petrol and diesel so as to reduce the price by at least Rs 10 per liter. Announcing this here on Monday, party spokesperson Harcharan Bains said a decision to this
Majithia, Cheema blast Khaira, demand sedition case against him
Chandigarh – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh Majithia and Dr Daljit Singh Cheema on Monday demanded that appropriate legal action under the anti- sedition laws be taken against the AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira for his open support to the initiatives aimed at dismemberment of the country. The Akali leaders
CM urges PM to settle Rs. 31000 cr food account
New Delhi/Chandigarh – Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the settlement of Rs.31,000 crore of food account on the procurement of wheat and paddy, which was wrongly taken over by the erstwhile state government instead of being adjusted between the state and the Central
Sangrur girl tops AIIMS MBBS entrance exam-18
Sangrur – Eliza Bansal, 17, resident of Lehragaga and student of DAV Senior Secondary Public School, Lehragaga, on Monday brought laurels to the town by securing first position in the MBBS entrance examination2018 of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She obtained the first position with 00 percentile.Eliza’s father Vijay Kumar is a
Group of ministers to review act for regularisation of unauthorised colonies
Chandigarh(Narinder Jagga): Now the group of Ministers will review the act on unauthorised colonies across the State. Although the act Special Provisions for Regularization Authorized Colony had been passed during the budget Session, but it received no response from the People. To know the views on this issue, the minister for Housing, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has
Punjab government’s green signal to Panchayat Elections
Chandigarh(Narinder Jagga): All is set to conduct the Panchayat Elections, which are due in July and August. Next week the department of Panchayat and rural Development will submit letter of intent to the Punjab State Election Commission (PSEC). But it may takes near about two month to complete the process of voter lists, reservation of
Punjab cities, towns to be open defecation free by June 30
Punjab cities, towns to be open defecation free by June 30. All cities and towns of Punjab are all set to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status by June 30, an official spokesman said today.So far 120 cities have achieved the status of being Open Defecation Free whereas the rest of the 47 cities/towns would
Youth sensation Sidhu Moosewala comeback with new song ‘Famous’
After releasing hit songs one by one, Punjabi singing sensation Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu best know as Sidhu Moosewala has once again come with his latest song ‘Famous’. Singer is famous for his singing style. Not just the music and lyrics, but the video of this song is also worth watching a million times. The music
Draft the policy, but will officers send their kids to govt schools ?
Worried over the southward graph of the state schools’ performance in the board examinations, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has virtually intended to take the command in his hands, rather than depending on his Cabinet colleague assigned with the education portfolio. Amarinder Singh is keen to improve the system and for that he wants to
