Chandigarh: Expressing apprehension that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) might “inadvertently silence the voice of lakhs of genuine Non-Resident Indians from Punjab”, the Aam Aadmi Party MP from Anandpur Sahib, Malvinder Singh Kang, has written to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), proposing “NRI-friendly mechanisms” to prevent “wrongful deletion” of names.In the letter to the CEC…
Chandigarh: The State Election Commission (SEC), Punjab, on Sunday deferred elections to the Kharar municipal council following a Punjab and Haryana high court order pointing to anomalies in the 2021 delimitation exercise.The court, while disposing of a petition on Friday, noted that several newly added areas in the municipal council had not been included in…
Bathinda: Punjab reported only 11 new farm fire cases on Sunday, a sharp fall from 283 cases recorded a day earlier, taking the season’s tally to 9,337.Ferozepur remained the worst-affected district with 893 cases till May 17, followed by Bathinda (738), Moga (726), Tarn Taran (712), Amritsar (693), Sangrur (674), Gurdaspur (617) and Ludhiana (596).Legal…
Chandigarh: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Sunday hit back at Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann for questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s foreign tours, saying Mann himself frequently travels abroad.Calling Mann’s remarks “the height of hypocrisy”, Chugh said, “A chief minister who himself travels abroad with a minister currently in ED remand in a…
Amritsar: The Amritsar rural police have arrested four persons in case of two extortion-related cases reported from Sudhar village under Ramdas police station. The arrested were allegedly working at the behest of foreign-based gangster Jeevan Fauji.Senior superintendent of police (Amritsar rural) Suhail Qasim Mir said the arrested accused had been identified as Kulwinder Singh alias…
Chandigarh: Haryana has received international recognition for its innovations in agriculture and environmental protection, winning the Geospatial Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum 2026 held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.The award was conferred on the Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), functioning under the state citizen resources information department, for developing a comprehensive geo-enabled ecosystem based on…
Chandigarh: Sixteen years after the Centre enacted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act to regulate healthcare facilities and curb unethical medical practices, Punjab is yet to implement the law. Though Punjab notified its own Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act in Oct 2020, the state govt has still not framed the rules needed to…
Chandigarh: Sixteen years after the Centre enacted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act to regulate healthcare facilities and curb unethical medical practices, Punjab is yet to implement the law. Though Punjab notified its own Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act in Oct 2020, the state govt has still not framed the rules needed to…
Haryana Congress chief Rao Narender Singh (File Photo) CHANDIGARH: A group of masked men allegedly tried to break into the ancestral house of Haryana Congress president Rao Narender Singh in Narnaul, but fled after house staff members woke up on hearing suspicious noises and alerted police, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred in the…
AMRITSAR: A 21-year-old woman allegedly shot her father using his licensed revolver in Khalchian village, police said. The injured man, Parminder Singh, was rushed to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, where his condition is reported to be stable.SSP (Amritsar Rural) Suhail Qasim Mir said the accused, identified as Snehdeep Kaur, has been arrested.The SSP said police…
