New transport policy to end cartels

New transport policy to end cartels

Chandigarh : The Amarinder Singh government today put to an end the monopolistic practices and cartelisation in the transport sector. The government approved a new transport policy to end the monopolisation in plying of private buses by transport companies owned by Akali leaders, besides breaking truck cartels by announcing the Punjab Goods Carriages (Regulation and […]

3 AAP MLAs booked for assaulting woman on Assembly premises

3 AAP MLAs booked for assaulting woman on Assembly premises

New Delhi, July 6 : The Delhi Police have registered a case against three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs for allegedly manhandling and abusing a woman on the Assembly premises recently. In her complaint, the woman has accused Oklha AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti and Tilak Nagar MLA Jarnail Singh of abusing […]

PM Modi visits Haifa, pays homage to Indian World War I heroes

PM Modi visits Haifa, pays homage to Indian World War I heroes

Haifa, July 6 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday saluted the Indian soldiers who laid down their lives during the World War I while protecting the Israeli city of Haifa from the Ottoman Empire forces and said the sacrifices made by them is a mark of enduring bond between the two nations. Modi visited […]

Punjab Local Bodies Dept suspends 4 SEs for irregularities

Punjab Local Bodies Dept suspends 4 SEs for irregularities

Chandigarh, July 6 : The Department of Local Government on Thursday suspended four SEs for having allotted municipal works running into crores on single tenders in violation of department rules. The suspended SEs are PK Goel (Amritsar), Kulwinder Singh (Jalandhar) and Pawan Sharma and Dharam Singh (Ludhiana). Minister for Local Government Navjot Singh Sidhu said […]

‘Atmosphere not right’ for Xi-Modi meet in Hamburg, says China

‘Atmosphere not right’ for Xi-Modi meet in Hamburg, says China

Beijing, July 6 : China on Thursday said the “atmosphere” was “not right” for a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, amidst a standoff between the armies of the two countries in the Sikkim section. “The atmosphere is not right […]