Procurement begins today, state awaits Rs 20,900 crore

Procurement begins today, state awaits Rs 20,900 crore

Chandigarh : Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal today urged the Union Finance Ministry to release the cash credit limit (CCL) worth Rs20,900 crore for wheat procurement, which begins tomorrow. Manpreet, who held a meeting with Union Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa in New Delhi this afternoon, said the latter had promised to get the CCL released […]

False Facebook post costs woman $5,00,000

False Facebook post costs woman $5,00,000

New York, April 1 : A judge in North Carolina has ordered a woman to pay $5,00,000 for writing a Facebook post falsely accusing her former friend of killing her son. According to a report in Telegraph.co.uk, Jacquelyn Hammond from Asheville wrote on Facebook, in 2015, of Davyne Dial: “I didn’t get drunk and kill […]

Sikhs in US ‘intimidated, harassed’ at alarming rate

Sikhs in US ‘intimidated, harassed’ at alarming rate

Washington, April 1 : Sikhs in the US are reporting an increase in violent threats and harassment against the community amid rising incidents of hate crimes against Indian-Americans in the country.Chairman of the Sikhs Political Action Committee (SikhsPAC), Gurinder Singh Khalsa, said so far there have been two death threats and two reports of vandalism […]