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New Delhi, [India], July 15 (ANI): Dr Sagar Preet Hooda, IPS, has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of Chandigarh. A Home Ministry notification said that Dr Hooda, who belongs to AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa--Mizoram-Union Territories) cadre has been transferred from Delhi and posted as Chandigarh DGP with immediate effect. Also Read | 'Welcome Back': Yogi Adityanath, Mayawati Hail Shubhanshu Shukla's Return to Earth After Completing Historic Axiom-4 Space Mission. Me ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Monday tabled a stringent bill to tackle acts of sacrilege. The proposed legislation includes provisions that could lead to life imprisonment and a fine up to Rs 10 lakh for individuals found guilty of desecrating any religious scripture. Before this bill was introduced, the assembly was adjourned for an hour. During the break, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan called representatives of all parties to inform them about the bill's introduction. Once the House re ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 11 (PTI) The Punjab Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution against the deployment of CISF personnel at the Bhakra-Nangal dam project of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), saying the state police has been duly protecting the installations for the last 70 years. The resolution stated that if the BBMB deploys CISF personnel, the Punjab government will not bear any financial burden arising from such deployment. The resolution against the deployment of the Central ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 10: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a sharp rebuke on Thursday following controversial remarks made by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent diplomatic engagements with nations from the Global South. Without naming Mann directly, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal described the comments as "irresponsible and regrettable," asserting that they "do not behove the state authority." The statement came in response to Mann's sar ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 10 (PTI) Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government over the issue of bringing a bill against sacrilege acts in the state assembly, calling it as "yet another propaganda" and questioned its seriousness and intention to bring perpetrators of desecration of religious texts to justice. He asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led government to clarify whether it consulted religious institutions and why the draft bil ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 10 (PTI) The Punjab Cabinet on Thursday approved a scheme to provide cashless medical treatment of up to Rs 10 lakh to all families in the state at government as well as empanelled private hospitals. "With this, Punjab has become the first state to provide cashless treatment of up to Rs 10 lakh," Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said here after chairing a meeting of the Cabinet. A spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said the 'Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna' will be rolled out on O ...Read More >
Hoshiarpur/Kapurthala (Pb), Jul 9 (PTI) Contractual employees of the state-owned Punjab Roadways and Pepsu Road Transportation Corporation on Wednesday evening called off their three-day strike following a meeting with Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema and Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar in Chandigarh. The meeting came after contractual employees struck work earlier in the day to press their demands, including regularisation of their jobs, causing inconvenience to commuters. Over 2,5 ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Punjab government's new law against sacrilege proposes a minimum jail term of 10 years and the bill will be tabled in the special session of the Assembly on July 10-11. Assembly Speaker Kultar Sandhwan said sacrilege of any religion is unacceptable. "Guru Granth Sahib is of great dignity for us and a strict anti-sacrilege law should be introduced," he said. However, this is not the first anti-sacrilege bill that is being introduced in Punjab. A bill against sacrilege was first introd ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 8 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced a universal health insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh per annum under the Mukh Mantri Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana in the state. Under the scheme, each of the 65 lakh families in the state will be entitled to up to Rs 10 lakh cashless health insurance at all government and empanelled private hospitals. In its 2025-26 budget, the Aam Aadmi Party government had announced that it would extend Rs 10 lakh per annum insurance co ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI): Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who is currently in 14-day judicial custody, has been granted three weeks by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to amend his petition challenging his arrest. During the hearing of his bail application on Tuesday, Majithia's counsel requested the court for additional time to revise the petition. The High Court accepted the plea and granted three weeks for the amendment. The case will now be h ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI): Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who i currently in 14-day judicial cutody, ha been granted three week by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to amend hi petition challenging hi arret. During the hearing of hi bail application on Tueday, Majithia counel requeted the court for additional time to revie the petition. The High Court accepted the plea and granted three week for the amendment. The cae will now be heard on July 29. ...Read More >
Mohali: In a major step towards environmental sustainability, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal Monday dedicated a state-of-the-art 15 MGD (million gallons per day) sewage treatment plant to the public in Sector 83 here. The project, developed at a cost of Rs 145.26 crore, is being hailed as the most advanced of its kind in India.Speaking to the media after the inauguration, Mann said the ultra-modern plant has been built using the latest advanced nutrient removal technolog ...Read More >
Hyderabad: In a social media post on Monday, BJP parliamentarian Nishikant Dubey claimed that former prime minister Indira Gandhi mounted an attack, Operation Blue Star, on Sri Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar in 1984 in collusion with Britain, when officials of the British Army were present in the city. "In 1984, Indira Gandhi launched an attack on the Golden Temple in collaboration with Britain, with British army officers present in Amritsar at that time," Dubey wrote on X. Taking a dig at Congre ...Read More >
New Delhi: A quaint walled residential complex in Sector 39A in south Chandigarh is home to top ministers and officials of the Punjab government. Uniformly marked white boards point to numbers of red-brick single storey bungalows in the complex. There is no name plate outside bungalow number 926. When you enquire if it is home to former Delhi chief minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, two guards from the neighbouring home helpfully say, "This is Satyendra Jain's kothi. Siso ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Skill education in business and marketing will be provided to all class 11 and 12 students in Punjab government schools from the next academic session under the Young Entrepreneurs scheme, state Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains has said. The move is aimed at encouraging students to set up their own start-ups, he asserted. Addressing a gathering here on Saturday, Bains said under the 'Business Blasters Expo-2025', students are being encouraged to become job creators instead of j ...Read More >
Mann, who addressed the gathering along with senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, said that Punjab government has launched the Yudh Nasheyan Virudh campaign to combat the drug menace and to channel the boundless energy of the youth in a positive direction. Highlighting the grave loss of manpower Punjab suffered due to drugs, he said that the campaign was launched with the active support of people. "The government will not remain a mute spectator while smugglers flourish at the cost of victims," h ...Read More >
Mysuru: Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar sought blessings at Chamundeshwari temple atop Chamundi Hills and later said that while "efforts may fail, but not prayers", signalling his ambition for the state's top post remains undimmed despite Siddaramaiah reaffirming that he would stay chief minister for a full five-year term.Joined by family on Ashada Friday, widely considered auspicious, Shivakumar offered puja to the deity and underlined his faith in divine intervention. "I prayed to the Godd ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 4 (UNI) Promoting a culture of entrepreneurship among the youth, the Punjab Government is set to host the state's first-ever Business Blasters Expo at IIT-Ropar. At the event, students from government schools in Classes 11 and 12 will showcase their innovative ventures and participate in Shark Tank-style pitch sessions before a distinguished panel of investors, entrepreneurs, and incubators, announced Harjot Singh Bains, Punjab's Minister for School Education. Addressing a pre ...Read More >
Pragya Jain, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Faridkot, said DSP Rajanpal Singh approached her office and attempted to offer a bribe of Rs 1 lakh through an ASI. A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in Punjab's Faridkot was arrested Friday morning for allegedly attempting to offer a bribe to a senior officer to settle a corruption complaint filed against him. The police identified the arrested officer as Rajanpal Singh, a DSP posted with the Crime Against Women Cell in Faridkot. Acco ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Hours after he was dropped as a minister in the Punjab government, Ajnala MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said on Thursday that he gave his resignation to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann after he was told that someone else would be given a chance in the cabinet. Dhaliwal further said he has been told that he will be given some other work and asserted that he is a loyal soldier of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which he joined in December 2015. The AAP government effected a cabinet ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court will hear on Friday Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia's plea against his arrest and subsequent remand in a disproportionate assets case registered against him by the Vigilance Bureau. The matter came up before the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya, who adjourned the hearing for a day to allow Majithia's counsel to place a fresh remand order of the former Akali minister issued in the case. Majithia's counsel Arshdeep Singh ...Read More >
A Mohali court has extended Bikram Singh Majithia's vigilance custody by four days. He was arrested in a disproportionate assets case. The Vigilance Bureau sought the extension after his initial seven-day remand ended. The case involves alleged laundering of drug money. Majithia was previously booked under the NDPS Act in 2021.A Mohali court on Wednesday extended by four days the vigilance custody remand of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who was arrested in a disproportionate ...Read More >
Nagpur: Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar questioned the govt's priorities on Tuesday, highlighting the increasing number of farmer suicides in Maharashtra. He accused the govt of neglecting agrarian crisis while approving Rs20,000 crore for Shaktipeeth highway project."Money is available for massive infrastructure projects, but where is the budget for farm loan waivers as promised by the BJP before last year's assembly polls to the farmers?" Wadettiwar asked while moving an adj ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 02: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary, Tarun Chugh on Wednesday accused the Bhagwant Mann government of unleashing a "new era of Emergency" in Punjab, in which the Opposition's voice is being muzzled. Reacting strongly to the detention of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and other senior Akali leaders in Mohali on Wednesday, Chugh alleged, "Draconian laws were being enforced in Punjab at the behest of Arvind Kejriwal, and all democratic rights of ...Read More >
Chandigarh [India], July 2 (ANI): BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh came down heavily on the Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab for 'unleashing a new era of Emergency' in Punjab, in which the Opposition's voice is being 'muzzled'. Reacting strongly to the detention of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and other senior Akali leaders in Mohali today, Chugh said in a statement that 'draconian' laws were being enforced in Punjab at the behest of AAP National Convener Arvind Ke ...Read More >
Chandigarh [India], July 2 (ANI): BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh came down heavily on the Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab for "unleashing a new era of Emergency" in Punjab, in which the Opposition's voice is being "muzzled". Reacting strongly to the detention of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and other senior Akali leaders in Mohali today, Chugh said in a statement that "draconian" laws were being enforced in Punjab at the behest of AAP National Convener Arvind Ke ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: More than 30 years after it mandated a 200-point-roster system for earmarking posts for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates in direct recruitments, the Supreme Court has now identified staff posts reserved for SC and ST candidates but provided no quota for OBC candidates.The judgment in R K Sabharwal case was delivered by a five-judge bench on Feb 10, 1995, during the tenure of 26th CJI A M Ahmadi, but it will be implemented now during the tenure of 52nd CJI in Justice B R ...Read More >
Chandigarh : Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP's) Punjab chief Aman Arora on Tuesday accused the BJP of making attempts to shield Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Majithia in a case registered against him by the vigilance bureau in the state. Condemning the BJP and Congress for opposing action against Majithia, Arora said that the NCB demanded all documents related to the new FIR filed against Majithia by the Punjab government and Punjab Police. "This demand by the NCB is not an act of due process ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) Punjab Minister Aman Arora on Tuesday said the Narcotics Control Bureau has sought the records of a disproportionate assets case against Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, and alleged the BJP-led Centre was looking to "weaken" it. Piling up on the allegation, another AAP minister in the state, Tarunpreet Singh Sond, claimed the Delhi Police, which is under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has denied the Punjab Vigilance Bureau permission to conduct searches at properties a ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) Punjab registered a record 44.44 per cent growth in net goods and services tax collections at Rs 2,379.90 crore in June 2025, said Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday. Addressing the media here, Cheema said Punjab outpaced the national average in GST collection growth, firmly positioning itself among the top-performing states in tax mobilization despite facing national and geopolitical challenges, including border-related tensions. Also Read | Who Is PVN Mad ...Read More >
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