Chandigarh, June 9 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on Tuesday sent a reminder letter to the Union government to allot special trains from Punjab to Sri Guru Ravidass Maharaj Janam Asthan Mandir in Varanasi, enabling pilgrims to pay their obeisance. The Finance Minister, who is Chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee formed by the state government to organise celebrations, made this call while chairing a review meeting to assess the ongoing yearlong celebrations being organised by the …
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Chandigarh, May 29 (IANS) The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Friday achieved an impressive victory in 102 civic bodies by winning 862 wards of the 1,765 that have been counted till now. A total of 1,977 wards went to the polls on May 26. The principal Opposition Congress emerged second by winning 348 seats. The Independents emerged third by winning 242 wards, higher than the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which won 169 wards. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (B…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) In a significant ruling involving the erstwhile royal family of Kapurthala, the Supreme Court has held that the private properties declared by former princely rulers after merger with the Indian Union would devolve according to personal succession laws and not by the rule of male lineal primogeniture. A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and S.V.N. Bhatti set aside concurrent findings of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had upheld the claim of Brigadier Sukhjit Sing…
Chandigarh, May 22 (IANS) Punjab Police have arrested a man from Pathankot town on charges of spying for Pakistan-based handlers, officials said on Thursday.During questioning, the accused Baljit Singh revealed that the entire operation was being directed by a handler operating from Dubai. For espionage, he was given a sum of Rs 40,000.This was the third trans-border espionage module busted by the police in less than a month.In the latest case, Baljit Singh, a resident of Chakk Dhariwal village,…
Chandigarh, April 29 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted search operations this week under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at 11 locations in Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Patiala linked to suspended Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) H.S. Bhullar, his associates, including property dealers and suspected benamidars, ED officials said. The ED’s Chandigarh Zonal Office initiated the investigation on the basis of …
Islamabad, April 24 (IANS) Pakistan’s treatment of religious minorities, particularly Sikh and Hindu women, remains deeply troubling, with human rights reports, including those from the United Nations and local activists, documenting hundreds of cases each year of abduction, grooming, forced conversion, and marriage.Many cases reportedly involve pressure in custody or threats to families, while Sikh communities in Pakistan repeatedly raised alarms over targetted harassment and conversions, a rep…