PUNJAB : Takings for the Chaar Sahibzaade sequel, Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur, movie release has been severely affected by the Indian government’s ban of the 500 and 100 rupees notes. The ban of the notes by Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, has resulted in massive depletion of lower denomination notes, […]
Jalandhar : Aam Aadmi Party’s NRI wing and local volunteers will seek details about the party’s Punjab and overseas funding in New Delhi on December 24. A delegation of the party’s NRI members is also expected there. AAP NRI wing coordinator from Hoshiarpur, Virinder Singh Parihar, along with expelled founder member Naveen Jairath from Hoshiarpur, […]
Chandigarh : The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday stayed the appointment of 668 Panchayat Secretaries. The appointments were to be made in the Punjab Department of Rural Development and Panchayats. The order by Justice Jaswant Singh came on the petitions by Sunil Kumar of Abohar and 30 others. They had challenged the non-inclusion […]
Patna : A 25-year-old photo-journalist died in an accident in Bihar’s Vaishali district on Saturday when a speeding vehicle hit his motorbike when he was on his way back after covering an assignment, police said. Aditya Kumar Singh, photo-journalist of a Hindi daily in Hajipur about 30-km from here, met with the accident due to […]
New Delhi : With cash crunch continuing among people, several banks and ATMs witnessed long queues on Saturday, the 38th day after the ban on high denomination notes. The queues to exchange the old currency notes and at the same time to withdraw through cheques and withdrawal forms was much longer in comparison to depositing […]