Chandigarh, December 17 : Voting for the Punjab municipal elections began on Sunday, Election Commission officials said here. Violence was reported in several wards in Patiala. Polling began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm. The main contest is among the ruling Congress, main opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali […]
Lucknow, December 17 : The son of a former BJP MLA was allegedly shot dead at the Kasmanda House, barely 300 metres from the Uttar Pradesh Legislature building and the state BJP office, a senior police official said. Vaibhav Tiwari (36), the son of former Domariyaganj MLA Prem Prakash Tiwari, alias Gippy Tiwari, was called […]
Chandigarh : An astounding 81.52 per cent of the free farm electricity beneficiaries in Punjab are medium and large farmers, and only 18.48 per cent are small and marginal farmers (having landholding of less than 5 acres), a study has revealed. Conducted by eminent economist RS Ghumman, professor at the Centre for Research in Rural […]
New Delhi, December 15 : The government on Friday approved a draft law under which the practice of giving instant triple talaq would be made illegal and void and would attract a jail term of three years for the husband, a government functionary has said. The draft ‘Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill’ was […]