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Patiala: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday visited a Nabha village to offer condolences to senior party leader Lakhvir Singh following the death of his brother.Badal, however, returned without meeting his brother-in-law and senior party colleague Bikram Singh Majithia, who is currently in judicial custody at Nabha jail on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.Jail authorities confirmed that Badal did not visit the prison or ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 15 (PTI) The Punjab assembly on Tuesday decided to constitute a committee to find out a missing portion of an action-taken report on the 1986 Nakodar sacrilege and police firing incidents. The matter was taken up by Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on the concluding day of the special session of the assembly as members of the House discussed the Punjab Prevention of Offences Against Holy Scripture(s) Bill, 2025 here. During the then Shiromani Akali Dal regime, five s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan has flagged the "perceived reluctance" among several senior central government officials to give appointments to people, saying such interactions can give insights into ground realities, and clarify misunderstandings about government policies or intentions. In a letter to the secretaries of all central government ministries and departments, the country's top bureaucrat also said that such meetings should be held in offices and not clubs o ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The teams of the Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) on Tuesday conducted fresh raids at the office and residence of senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia in Amritsar as a part of an ongoing probe into a case of disproportionate asset registered against him. Majithia is in judicial custody and the next date in the case against him is July 19. It may be recalled that Majithia was arrested on June 25 last, in the case of disproportionate assets (DA) allegedly involvin ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 15: In a defining moment for Indian luxury jewellery, Zoya- India leading luxury jewellery atelier from the Tata Group--unveils a limited-edition capsule in collaboration with globally acclaimed British designer and curator Alice Cicolini, marking the first international creative partnership for an Indian luxury jewellery atelier. Born out of deep mutual admiration of Indian craft, the capsule pays homage to enamel--one of India most poetic art forms in luxury. Ins ...Read More >
Chandigarh, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday asserted both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab are politicising the sensitive issue of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib for their political ambitions even as it asked Leader of Opposition Partap Bajwa to tell why the previous Congress government did nothing to either probe or punish the perpetrators responsible for this heinous crime. Reacting to Bajwa's statement in the Vidhan Sabha in which the for ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday asserted both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab are politicising the sensitive issue of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib for their political ambitions even as it asked Leader of Opposition Partap Bajwa to tell why the previous Congress government did nothing to either probe or punish the perpetrators responsible for this heinous crime. Reacting to Bajwa's statement in the Vidhan Sabha in which the former claimed that the AAP ...Read More >
Amritsar, Jul 14 (PTI) The standoff between the Akal Takht and Takht Sri Patna Sahib was resolved on Monday after Akal Takht officiating Jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj held a meeting with the five Sikh high priests. Takht Sri Patna Sahib in Bihar has now withdrawn all previous edicts that had declared Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal and the jathedars (high priests) of the Akal Takht and Takht Damdama Sahib guilty of religious misconduct. Takht Sri Patna Sahib is one of t ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 12 (PTI) A day after the Chandigarh police filed an FIR against him and another minister on a complaint of Leader of Opposition in Punjab Partap Singh Bajwa for alleged defamation and forgery, state Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Saturday said it has become clear that the Congress and the BJP are working "hand-in-glove." The police on Friday registered the case against an "unknown media handler" of AAP, and state cabinet ministers Harpal Singh Cheema and Aman Arora on th ...Read More >
Noida: The Authority on Friday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Unitech Golf & Country Club, in Sector 96, for violating rules of bulk waste generators. The officials in an earlier inspection, found improper segregation, storage, and handling of solid waste management.Under the Solid Waste Management (SWM) rules, 2016, bulk generators are required to treat their wet waste on-site. The city generates nearly 800 tons of solid waste per day, of which nearly 30% comes from BWGs.SP Singh, general mana ...Read More >
Chandigarh: A heated war of words between finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema and leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa plunged the second day of a special Punjab assembly session into chaos, as accusations over doctored videos, gangster ties, and political collusion took centre stage.Tempers flared when Cheema addressed an FIR (first-information report) lodged against him and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bigwigs over an allegedly manipulated video that purportedly showed that Bajwa supported ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) The government has begun collecting signatures of MPs to move a motion in Parliament to remove Justice Yshwant Varma, who is embroiled in a row following the discovery of burnt wads of currency at his residence after a fire incident. Sources said signatures of many MPs from the Lok Sabha have been collected for the impeachment exercise, an indication that the motion may be moved in the Lower House. Also Read | Karnataka Horror: Man Bites Off Wife's Nose Over Loan Repaym ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) As the Kanwar Yatra began on Friday, Delhi Traffic Police issued a detailed advisory alerting commuters about possible congestion and diversions on several major roads in the city over the next two weeks. The yatra during which lakhs of devotees carry holy Ganga water to the temples of Lord Shiva will continue till July 23 (Chaturdashi Tithi) and is expected to see a footfall of 15 to 20 lakh pilgrims in the national capital. Also Read | Karnataka Horror: Man Bites Off ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jul 11 (PTI) A tribal couple in Odisha's Rayagada district was allegedly forced to plough a field with a yoke placed on their shoulders as a form of public punishment for marrying against community traditions, officials said on Friday. The alleged incident took place at Kanjamajodi village within Kalyansinghpur police limits on Wednesday, they added. Also Read | Karnataka Horror: Man Bites Off Wife's Nose Over Loan Repayment Dispute in Shivamogga, Case Registered. A purported vid ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 11 (ANI): Retired Justice John Michael D'Cunha has submitted a report to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah related to the M Chinnaswamy stadium stampede in Bengaluru that claimed 11 lives and left over 50 people injured. Siddaramaiah said that the retired High Court judge D'Cunha submitted the report on the stampede in two volumes, whose recommendations would be discussed in the forthcoming cabinet meeting. Also Read | Karnataka Horror: Man Bites Off Wif ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) Net direct tax collection fell 1.34 per cent to about Rs 5.63 lakh crore till July 10 of the current financial year, mainly on account on higher refunds, according to government data released on Friday. Net corporate tax collection stood around Rs 2 lakh crore, while non-corporate tax (which includes individuals, HUFs and firms) was at Rs 3.45 lakh crore. Securities transaction tax mop-up was Rs 17,874 crore between April 1 and July 10. Also Read | Congress' Partap Sing ...Read More >
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], July 11 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh Governor, Lt. General KT Parnaik (Retd.), along with the First Lady of the State, Anagha Parnaik interacted with members of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) from across the State during a special event held at Raj Bhavan, Itanagar on Friday. According to the Press release from the Raj Bhawan, the Governor and the First Lady of the State visited exhibitions set up by various SHGs. They were deeply impressed by the rich display of trad ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Jul 11 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party stalwart Rahul Gandhi on Friday gave a clear message to the party leaders in Odisha to fight unitedly against the BJP government in the state. Kharge and Gandhi held closed-door meetings with state party leaders shortly after addressing the 'Samvidhan Bachao Samavesh' here. Also Read | Congress' Partap Singh Bajwa Accuses AAP of 'Tampering' With His Video on SAD Leader Bikram Singh Majithia and Circulating It on Social M ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 11 (ANI): The Board of Directors of Reliance Industries Ltd is scheduled to be held on July 18, 2025, where they will consider and approve the standalone and consolidated financial results of the company for the April-June 2025-26 quarter, as per a stock exchange filing. The company will hold an analyst meet, post the Board meeting, to discuss the financial results for the quarter, the stock exchange filing added on Friday. Also Read | UEFA Women's Euro 2025 ...Read More >
Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President and senior advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami on Wednesday demanded the death penalty of the culprits of sacrilege. Dhami said, "The culprits of sacrilege should get the death penalty. After 2015, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government brought a strict law against sacrilege by amending Section 295-A, but till date, neither the incidents of sacrilege that took place in Sachkhand Sri Harmandir Sahib Sri Darbar Sahib and elsewhere ha ...Read More >
Punjab govt will be better advised to -- instead of spending time and energy on constitutional, legal minutiae -- focus on fiscal prudence, economic policy framework, good governanc What does our political class do when they fail on all fronts? Well, it takes recourse to religion, hoping that it could be a useful opiate to numb the cognitive and cogitative faculties of people, thus diverting their attention from the real issues. So, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, having failed ...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 >
Abohar: Cutting across party lines, senior leaders from all major political parties joined thousands of locals on Tuesday to attend the last rites of Sanjay Verma, operator of New Wear Well showroom in Abohar, Fazilka district.Verma was shot dead in broad daylight outside his showroom on Monday.Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar, Congress state chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Abohar MLA Sandeep Jakhar, former MLA Devender Singh Ghubaya, SAD leader Vardev Singh Noni Mann, AAP constituency in-ch ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday deferred till July 29, the hearing on Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia's plea against his arrest and subsequent remand in a disproportionate assets case. As the matter came up for hearing, Majithia's counsel sought three weeks to file an amended plea, following which the court granted time and fixed the next date of hearing. Majithia was recently arrested in a case related to disproportionate assets. The state government' ...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 >
THE bitterness of the Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll still in the air, leaders of the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and BJP have found common cause in Punjab - in singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh. As producers of Dosanjh's latest film Sardaar Ji 3 skip releasing it in India due to the controversy generated over his co-star Hania Amir being a Pakistani - with calls also made to revoke his citizenship - Sikh leaders across the three parties have called the treatment of the artist, one of India's largest gl ...Read More >
Tarn Taran: Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De), a political outfit being run by jailed MP Amritpal Singh's father Tarsem Singh, on Sunday announced that it would contest the upcoming Tarn Taran assembly byelection and would try to field Paramjit Kaur Khalra, the widow of rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, as a potential candidate."We are in touch with Paramjit Kaur Khalra to field her as the party candidate, but the final decision is yet to be taken," said Tarsem Singh.During the 2024 Lok Sabha elec ...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 >
Chandigarh, July 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Well-known fashion designer and showroom co-owner Sanjay Verma was shot dead in broad daylight by three people outside his store in Punjab's Abohar city on Monday. Eyewitnesses said three assailants arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire on him as Verma stepped out of his showroom. The attackers fired multiple shots at him, causing panic in the area. The police said the motive of the crime is not known but they are exploring all possible angles, including b ...Read More >
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