The BJP on Sunday asserted that Centre’s schemes have not just benefited agriculture but have been instrumental in elevating Punjab on the socio-economic pedestal. This comes even as the party’s Lok Sabha candidates in Punjab continue to face backlash from farmer organisations, who blame the party for adopting an anti-farmer stance, The BJP also hit … Read more
Punjab police on Tuesday said the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) have busted a terror module operated by foreign-based mastermind Iqbalpreet Singh alias Buchi with the arrest of four module members including key operative Gurwinder Singh alias Shera. State’s Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said the accused Gurwinder Singh, who was presently out … Read more
Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country’s southwest declared a state of emergency. Some deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat. Rains caused dozens of houses to collapse in the northwest and in eastern Punjab province. … Read more
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Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar. File. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy The BJP will contest the Lok Sabha polls on its own in Punjab, the party’s State unit chief Sunil Jakhar said on March 26. The announcement came amid a buzz over talks between the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP for re-stitching their … Read more
“The vigilant BSF troops successfully thwarted nefarious designs of the terror-mongers from across the border,” a BSF spokesperson said. (A file photo used for representational purpose only.) | Photo Credit: PTI “An AK-47 assault rifle, two magazines and 40 cartridges were seized by the Border Security Force (BSF) from a field near the India-Pakistan border … Read more
Photo used for representation purpose only. In another major step towards demolishing the terrorist-gangster-drug smuggler nexus in the country, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday, January 11, 2024, conducted searches at 32 locations in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, officials said. The raids began early this morning and multiple teams of the anti-terror agency conducted … Read more
With announcement of new notification, Census to be delayed till at least October 2024 The deadline to freeze the administrative boundaries of districts, tehsils, towns, and municipal bodies, among others, has been extended till June 30, 2024, a senior government official told The Hindu. This means that the decennial Census exercise, initially scheduled to be … Read more
Mumbai: Sounding a note of caution, a Reserve Bank report has said that reverting to the DA-linked Old Pension Scheme (OPS) will exert huge pressure on state finances and restrict their capacity to undertake developmental expenditure. The Reserve Bank’s report on ‘State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2023-24’ also said the provision of non-merit … Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a press conference, in New Delhi on November 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI On the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the Punjab government on November 27 launched the ‘Mukhya Mantri Tirth Yatra Yojna’ under which elderly people of the State would be sent on pilgrimage free of … Read more