Chandigarh : Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday directed the Social Security Department to clear all pension arrears of the existing 19.08 lakh beneficiaries till March 31, while announcing that a new mechanism for verification and amendments in the eligibility criteria for beneficiaries would be enforced from April 1. The announcements followed a […]
Chandigarh : BJP national president Amit Shah has asked Vijay Sampla to continue as the president of the state unit till further orders, while turning down his offer to resign due to the party’s poor performance in the state Assembly elections. The party won just three of the 23 seats it contested. Confirming the development, […]
New Delhi, April 3 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a farmhouse with a market value of Rs 27 crore in connection with its money laundering probe against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and others. The agency has issued a provisional order attaching the farmhouse located in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area under the […]
Melbourne : Australian premier Malcolm Turnbull is likely to make his first official visit to India next week to further build on relations with India during talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in areas like trade, defence, education and skills sector. Turnbull will be accompanied by his Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham who is […]
Jalandhar, April 3 : Minister for Power Rana Gurjit Singh on Monday said the government would have to go by the Regulatory Commission’s recommendation on power tariff hike for now. He told the media that the price reduction would follow in subsequent years as there was no way out of the the current situation.