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Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nominee Rajinder Gupta was elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed and was issued the winning certificate on Thursday. Earlier, the election process was marked by an unusual turn of events with three independents, including now-arrested Janata Party president Navneet Chaturvedi, filing their nomination papers, all of which were rejected.After the scrutiny of nominations on Tuesday, only two candidates - Gupta and his wife, Madhu Gupta - were left in the fray. She w ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretary-cum-Returning officer Ram Lok Khatana on Thursday handed over the certificate of election to Punjab Rajya Sabha candidate Rajinder Gupta who was elected unopposed to the upper House of Parliament. Gupta was the lone candidate in the fray even though Thursday was the last day for withdrawing nominations. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party had named prominent industrialist Rajinder Gupta as its candidate for the Punjab Rajya Sabha by-election which was scheduled ...Read More >
Sultanpur Lodhi: Work on removing sand and silt from the Baupur Mand area of Sultanpur Lodhi reached a new scale on Tuesday, with around 150 tractors working on the ground to carry out the mega task on a war footing. Most of these tractors were brought by farmers from other parts of Punjab, and 16 of these were brought by 35 farmers from three villages in Sirsa district of Haryana.With tractors working for most of the day, the consumption of diesel is also reaching new heights. The massive opera ...Read More >
Punjab floods: In September 1988, widespread rain and overflowing rivers had caused widespread destruction across the state, leaving hundreds dead and lakhs displaced. Punjab is grappling is one of its worst floods in over three decades. More than 1,000 villages have been submerged across key districts - Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Ferozepur, Pathankot, Fazilka, Amritsar, and Tarn Taran. All rivers - Sutlej, Beas, Ravi and Ghaggar - are flowing at the danger mark - a situation that has reminded many ...Read More >
Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Panchal on Sunday said that the administration is keeping a close watch on the rising water levels in the Beas river and urged residents in the Mand region to remain cautious. The surge in water is being driven by heavy rainfall in the upper hilly regions, which has swollen rivers and rivulets across Punjab and its neighbouring states. Panchal further assured that the district administration is fully prepared with disaster response measures, and stress ...Read More >
Sultanpur Lodhi (Kapurthala), Jul 16 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday called upon people to take a pledge to curb the depletion of groundwater and control environmental pollution. Addressing a gathering during an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the cleaning of the Kali Bein rivulet, Mann said, although Punjab is known as the land of rivers, the state is currently facing a severe water crisis, making water conservation a major challenge. Also Read | Madhya Pradesh Sh ...Read More >
JALANDHAR: The family of 25-year-old Balwinder Singh, a US-bound youth traversing the donkey route who escaped from the clutches of human traffickers in Colombia's jungles, has approached Rajya Sabha member Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal to help his return to India.They have provided videos of the torture meted out by the traffickers upon three other men from Punjab and Haryana. Seechewal's office has forwarded these videos to Kapurthala police, as the family submitted a complaint for action agains ...Read More >
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