Chandigarh, July 20 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon on Monday said last week’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jalandhar emerged as one of the biggest infrastructure milestones for the state, with projects of over Rs 5,470 crore directly benefiting 12 districts through modern railway stations, new rail services, expressways and Greenfield highways. Dhillon said the significance of the Prime Minister’s visit lies not merely in the value of th…
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Chandigarh, July 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday laid the foundation stone and inaugurated development projects worth over Rs 4,700 crore, spanning healthcare, education and road infrastructure. The inaugurated projects were the advanced neuroscience centre and mother and child centre at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), a multipurpose auditorium at Panjab University’s South Campus in Sector 25 and road infrastructure projects in the tricit…
Chandigarh, July 15 (IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jalandhar on July 17, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Punjab President Kewal Singh Dhillon on Wednesday reviewed arrangements for the event. Dhillon visited the redeveloped Jalandhar Cantonment Railway Station and the rally venue. He also held discussions with officials from the police, civil administration and Indian Railways regarding preparations.Speaking on the occasion, Dhillon said PM Modi is visiting Punjab to inaugu…
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…
Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) Actress Apoorva Arora, who has started shooting for her upcoming Punjabi crime thriller ‘City Beautiful’, has called it a “homecoming” as it marks her return to Punjabi cinema after several years. The actress is currently filming in Chandigarh and Mohali. She was last seen in Punjabi film ‘Disco Singh’ alongside Diljit Dosanjh. Since then, she had been waiting for a script that would truly bring her back to the industry, and City Beautiful turned out to be that…
Manali, July 4 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested an Assistant Garrison Engineer, Military Engineering Services, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, for demanding a bribe of Rs 93,000 and accepting a part payment from an employee of a contractor firm, an official said on Saturday.K.K. Soni, Assistant Garrison Engineer, Military Engineering Services, Manali, was arrested by the CBI after registration of a case on July 3 on the basis of a complaint lodged by the complainant, who is…
Mohali, July 4 (IANS) A Special CBI Court in Punjab’s Mohali on Saturday sentenced the then Head Constable of Punjab Police to rigorous imprisonment for 5 Years in a case related to the abduction of a man in Tarn Taran district in 1991, an official said. The CBI Special Court also imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on convict Kashmir Singh, said a CBI official in a statement. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered the case on March 20, 2006, in compliance with the order dated January 2…
Chandigarh, June 25 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday presented evidence exposing the conspiracy behind a fake video circulated on social media to malign his image on religious grounds. Displaying videos and other material before the media in Mohali, the Chief Minister said a mask resembling him was procured and used to create the fabricated video.He also identified Canada-based Jagman Samra as the person who used the mask to shoot the video.Chief Minister Mann said the fake…
Chandigarh, June 9 (IANS) Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Tuesday inaugurated the technical and intelligence facilities, including the state-of-the-art Special Intelligence and Technical Unit (SITU) at the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) police station in Mohali, officials said. The DGP also inaugurated the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) room, interrogation room and the office of the Deputy Superintendent of Police at the ANTF police station. The…
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 …