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 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday while welcoming the proposed Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill of 2026 called for empowering the states to conduct examinations for their own recruitments and institutions. In a statement here, senior Akali leader Daljit Singh Cheema said that while stronger punishment for those involved in paper leaks was necessary, punishment alone could not guarantee the integrity of public examinations. He added …
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) It should never have taken a street protest to force governments to address a problem that has plagued India’s examination system for many decades. But that is precisely what the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi has exposed. The protest, though projected as an agitation against examination paper leaks and carrying an unmistakable political hue, has brought to the fore a problem that has plagued the country for decades.Year after year, Ind…
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 20 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann wanted to divert attention from his sacrilegious conduct against the Guru Sahiban by summoning him for questioning in an 11-year-old police firing case in Behbal Kalan, which was still under investigation after all these years. The SAD chief, who answered all the questions asked by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) during a two-hour questioning session her…
Chandigarh, July 18 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday asserted that Inspector Gurinderjit Singh Nagra, indicted by United States law enforcement authorities for links with gangsters, was hand in glove with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and demanded an independent probe to uncover who was sheltering him. In a statement, SAD chief spokesperson Arshdeep Singh Kler said Nagra had earlier created history by registering a case against an AAP opponent for committing sacrilege against the par…
Chandigarh, July 18 (IANS) Punjab Police have arrested its officer Gurinderjit Singh Nagra, who has been facing FBI allegations of $400,000 extortion linked to international crime syndicates.Under ‘Operation Hard Ball’, US authorities accused Inspector Nagra, the former Station House Officer (SHO) of the police station in Tanda town in Hoshiarpur district, of colluding with the Jaggu Bhagwanpuria syndicate to extort an Indian-origin family in California by threatening to falsely implicate their …
Jalandhar, July 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday signalled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would contest the Punjab Assembly elections alone, slated for early 2027, saying the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-ruled state “deserves faster development, better opportunities and good governance, and only the ‘double-engine’ government can fulfil these aspirations”. Speaking at a massive rally here after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of rail and road projects worth over Rs 5,470 …
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) As Uttar Pradesh and Punjab gear up for Assembly elections next year, the Congress once again finds itself confronting challenges similar to those it faced earlier in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka and other states.In Uttar Pradesh, INDIA bloc partners Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) are engaged in a tussle over their respective on-ground political strength. This comes despite indications that the two parties could again forge an alliance after their improve…
Patna, July 10 (IANS) Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday said that the Centre would restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) at an appropriate time. His remarks came after J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah recently intensified the demand for the restoration of statehood and constitutional guarantees for the region.Earlier this week, CM Omar Abdullah announced that his party would hold a protest in Delhi on July 20 to press for the demand.For the first time, Farooq Abdullah, presid…