Chandigarh : Even as nonagenarian freedom fighter Mohan Singh recently moved the High Court seeking compensation for the “brutal death” of his grandfather at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919, documents chanced upon during the digitisation of Punjab Archives show that the British had announced “liberal compensation” to the victim families of the massacre. […]
Gurdaspur : The district administration raided several unauthorised centres of travel agents and ordered the immediate closure of more than 100 of these offices. The owners now face prosecution. According to the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act, 2012, agents desirous of sending people abroad should register with the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office. The DC, Amit […]
Chandigarh : The state government has detected that projects worth more than Rs800 crore were allotted through single bidding in the Municipal Corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, said Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is illegal to allot projects through single bidding. “The state has 167 local bodies, besides Improvement Trusts. I have […]
Chandigarh : Two months after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh snubbed the Canadian government by refusing to meet its defence minister of Indian origin Harjit Singh Sajjan and not even according him state reception during his visit to Punjab, the CM on Saturday attempted to mend fences with Canada by congratulating the country on its 150th […]
New Delhi, July 3 : With all grades of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) coming under GST, consumers in India will be paying more from this month for their cooking gas cylinders. While petroleum is not under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) that rolled out from July 1, the Central government clarified that day that both […]