Chandigarh, July 27 (IANS) The Punjab BJP on Monday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of deceiving the people by falsely claiming transparency and honesty while repeatedly failing to protect the integrity of government recruitment examinations. State General Secretary Anil Sarin told the media here that 7,000 candidates appeared for 454 posts in the Punjab Pharmacy Officer Recruitment Examination on July 19, and the paper leaked.“This is not an isolated case but part of a systematic…
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Chandigarh, July 25 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Saturday congratulated the youth across the country, saying their long struggle against paper leaks and examination irregularities had finally achieved success. He also congratulated every young person, teachers and social activist Sonam Wangchuk for contributing to this movement. He said moral responsibility had finally been fixed and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had submitted his resignation.For Majithia, this …
Chandigarh, July 25 (IANS) Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in coordination with its Overseas Fugitive Tracking and Extradition Cell (OFTEC) and central agencies, secured the deportation of fugitive gangster Jobanjit Singh, alias Joban Billa, from Jakarta in Indonesia, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Saturday. The accused was detained in Indonesia on July 20 and subsequently deported to India. He was taken into custody by the Punjab Police from…
Chandigarh, July 23 (IANS) The Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) unit on Thursday declared the politics being played by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the nationwide students’ agitation regarding the NEET paper leak as “shameful”. State AAP Media In-Charge Baltej Pannu said that while lakhs of students across the country are fighting for justice and their future, both Congress and the BJP have chosen to level false and baseless allegations against the Aam Aadmi Party governmen…
Chandigarh, July 15 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday intensified its campaign against the Punjab government’s “anti-farmer” land pooling policy, saying “it is not a development initiative but a major conspiracy to grab the land of farmers”. As part of the campaign, State BJP President Kewal Singh Dhillon visited fields of affected farmers in Patton village of Mohali district. He listened to their grievances and declared that the BJP “stands firmly with the farmers against wha…
Chandigarh, July 13 (IANS) Delivering a historic relief to over 32 lakh students and their families, the Punjab government has brought private school fees under a strict regulatory framework by promulgating the Punjab Regulation of Fees of Unaided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026. The ordinance caps annual fee hikes at five per cent, mandates refunds where fee increases have exceeded 15 per cent over the last three years, treats all charges, including transport and building f…
Chandigarh, July 4 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab has been playing politics on the sacrilege issue by instituting a fresh Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the 2015 Behbal Kalan firing case even though four chargesheets had already been submitted in the case. It asked the government why it was not proceeding against jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh despite having been indicted by an SIT in the inte…
Chandigarh, June 22 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Monday approved an ordinance to regulate fee hikes by private unaided schools, amend industrial incentive guidelines, and strengthen digital governance. The Chief Minister’s Office said that to regularise unnecessary and unreasonable fee increases by private unaided schools, the Cabinet approved the Punjab Regulation of Fee of Unaided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026. It amends the Punjab…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Saturday staged protests across the state against the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over what it described as a coordinated campaign to defame Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann through a misleading fake video circulated on social media. AAP ministers, MLAs, senior leaders, workers and residents took to the streets across Punjab, accusing Opposition partie…
Chandigarh, June 18 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday announced a “Dharam Yudh Morcha” from Sri Akal Takht Sahib on July 19 to remove Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who has been declared guilty of “committing heinous sacrilege”. SAD President Sukhbir Badal declared that the Dharam Yudh Morcha would be launched under the Chhattar Chhaya (overall spiritual patronage) of Sri Akal Takht Sahib.Badal told the media that what Bhagwant Mann had done against the Guru Sahiban and est…