Chandigarh, March 24 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Punjab President Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday said that the party will meet the Governor of Punjab on Wednesday with a delegation to demand justice for Warehousing Divisional Manager Gagandeep Singh Randhawa and will request a CBI inquiry into the case. He was speaking after attending Randhawa’s funeral in Amritsar. Paying tribute to the deceased, he said that not only the BJP but the entire Punjab stands united with the family in this d…
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Chandigarh, March 10 (IANS) Chandigarh has achieved a major milestone by attaining a literacy rate of 99.93 per cent, making it a fully literate Union Territory (UT). To celebrate this achievement, the Education Department of the Chandigarh Administration on Tuesday organised a felicitation ceremony under the ULLAS-Nav-Saksharon ka Alankaran Samaroh (felicitation ceremony of neo-literates), where newly literate individuals were honoured for their accomplishment. The event saw the presence…
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (IANS) Renowned Punjabi singer and cultural icon Gurdas Maan on Thursday paid a courtesy call on Punjab Governor and Administrator, Chandigarh, Gulab Chand Kataria, at Lok Bhavan here. During the meeting, both dignitaries held an in-depth discussion on the growing menace of drug abuse, which continues to severely plague Punjab, having a destructive impact on the youth of the state.Expressing deep concern, the Governor emphasised the collective responsibility of society to safeg…
Chandigarh/Amritsar, Jan 1 (IANS) Braving biting cold, hundreds of devotees thronged the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab and other shrines in the region early on Thursday to usher in the New Year.At the Golden Temple complex, around 250 km from here, the devotees queued up since midnight to offer prayers. Long queues could be seen on Thursday morning with people waiting for their turn to offer prayers inside the ‘Harmandir Sahib’, the sanctum sanctorum.Several devotees could be seen ta…