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• War of Words...

  A day after Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar blamed the Punjab government for failing to stop the Dera followers from entering Haryana, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder flayed his Haryana counterpart for attempting to cover-up his government’s ...

• SC to hear Sutlej-Yamuna link canal issue today

  [India], Sep. 7 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue. The apex court, in November last year, had termed the law passed by Punjab Government in 2004 to terminate the SYL canal water sharing agreement with ...

• Punjab to launch employment scheme on Sep 5

  The Punjab government will launch employment scheme 'Ghar Ghar Rozgar', on September 5 from Mohali, adjoining Chandigarh, a state government spokesman said here on Saturday."The launch will be kicked off with an Employers Meet at ISB (Indian School of ...

• Dera chief verdict: Security forces start evicting followers after HC rap

  The Haryana Police and central forces on Thursday night swung into action to flush out scores of Dera followers who have gathered in Panchkula over the past three days. IMAGE: Followers of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh arrive at his ashram in Sirsa on Thursday, ahead of the verdict in the rape trial. Photographs: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo State Director General of Police B S Sandhu said the night-long operation would be carried out and the premis, as Dera followers are ...

• Ahead of Ram Rahim verdict in rape case, Section 144 imposed in Punjab

  Chandigarh : As a precautionary measure, the Punjab Government has imposed Section 144 across the entire state with immediate effect and shut all schools and colleges on August 25, the day the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court will give its final ...

• Research centre to upgrade technical syllabuses: Pb minister

  The Punjab government will establish research centres to upgrade the technical education and the industrial training syllabuses, state Technical Education Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said today. Experts would be roped in to form a research panel to make ...

• 'Apocalypse now': Read journalist-poet Manu Kant's latest haikus on Modi's India

  "Saare jahaan se acchha, Hindustan hamara the father lynched over beef the son serving India" -------- "The Italian connection of the Congress (I) oye! Hello BJP! Remember the Italian and Nazi connections of the RSS" Poetry is an urgent freedom of expression ...

• How can there be tax on religious and community service, asks SGPC

  Chandigarh: Questioning the logic of the central government and the GST Council imposing a tax on religious and social service done for common people, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which manages Sikh shrines in Punjab and runs a "langar" ...

• After red beacons, govt bars MLAs, local leaders from inaugurating projects

  After scrapping off the use of red beacon atop all government vehicles, Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government has now barred all its MLAs and local leaders from laying foundation stones of any projects across the state. The government has also ...

• Chandigarh to China: Schools to teach Mandarin

  Chinese is to be introduced as one of the four optional languages for students of senior secondary in Punjab’s government schools. It will be optional along with French, German and Italian in Class 11th. It is for the first time that foreign languages, ...

• SYL issue: INLD accuses Centre of trying to delay SC's order 1067 6933

  As the Supreme Court today told the governments of Punjab and Haryana to first build the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal before bringing their respective points of view and challenges on the vexed issue before it, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) alleged ...

• Punjab minister urges Centre to release scholarship funds

  Punjab minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot today urged the Centre to take immediate measures to release the state's share of Rs 1,046.48 crore in connection with the post-matric scholarship scheme of Scheduled Caste students. He was speaking at a regional ...

• GST shadow on world's largest community kitchen

  Chandigarh : It is known as the world's largest community kitchen -- feeding freshly cooked food to an estimated 50,000 devotees on weekdays and over 100,000 on weekends and festivals. But the newly-introduced GST is going to put an extra burden of over Rs 10 ...

• SC allows states to denotify National Highways in city limits

  States can denotify the National Highways if those roads fall within the city limit, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud refused to interfere with the Punjab governments move to denotify the ...

• Punjab releases 121 names of proposed new 154 law officers

  The Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government found itself in the dock after the names of relatives of several politicians and those of former judges and advocates were part of the list of 121 new law officers released by the state government. The list ...

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