Chandigarh : Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has accused SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal of unleashing a negative and anti-people agenda with their “misleading statements and baseless charges” against the Congress government. Rejecting the Akali charges on the Congress government “backtracking” from its promises, the Chief Minister, in a statement released here, blamed the Akalis […]
New Delhi : The state government is facing a revenue shortfall of Rs800 crore at the end of the first month of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rollout. This will be one of the concerns Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal will raise at tomorrow’s meeting of the GST Council here. The state was expecting […]
Chandigarh : While digging a mound, a 10-year-old girl discovered a stone sculpture at Mard Khera village in Sangrur in 1980. Villagers placed it in a specially-built room and it soon became the centre of activities. Weddings, Hindu or Sikh, would not be solemnised without the couple bowing before the idol. It started figuring on […]
Chandigarh : A state government’s decision to raise market fee and rural development cess by 1 per cent each will prove to be an indirect taxation on lakhs of farmers, especially those growing basmati, cotton and horticulture crops. With market fee and rural development cess fixed at 3 per cent, the cash-strapped government aims to […]
Chandigarh, September 8 : Ahead of search and sanitation operations, Dera Sacha Sauda’s mouthpiece “Sach Kahoon” had admitted that human remains were buried inside the premises. The Dera newspaper, while defending the action of the Dera management in burying the human remains, said this was done as sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh encouraged followers to […]