Chandigarh : In a new policy, the Punjab Government has done away with the restrictions on the minimum distance of marriage palaces from educational institutions and hospitals. As a petition on the functioning of marriage palaces came up for resumed hearing, the state counsel told Justice Rajan Gupta’s Bench that a policy dated August 11 […]
Chandigarh, December 5 : The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed the trial court proceedings in the alleged lynching of 17-year-old Junaid Khan, who was stabbed to death on a train in June. A division bench of the high court also issued a notice of motion to the Haryana government and the CBI […]
Ludhiana : Accusing the government of adopting an indifferent attitude towards them, unemployed differently abled persons staged a protest at a state-level function here today. The event was organised to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons at Government Institute for Blind where a large numbers of differently abled persons from across the state gathered. They […]
Chandigarh : Conceived as a bulwark against cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics into trouble-torn Punjab in the 1980s, the barbed wire fencing has proved to be the bane of farmers in border villages. In 1980, when former BSF chief Prakash Singh convinced the Union Government to build a fence, he didn’t foresee the problems […]
Chandigarh : Three farmers commit suicide in a day in six Malwa districts — Sangrur, Bathinda, Mansa, Barnala, Ludhiana and Moga. This is the average of the last 15 years. A door-to-door survey in these districts has found that a total of 14,667 agricultural labourers and farmers committed suicide between 2000 and 2015. The matter […]