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PRTC, Punjab Roadways staff call off strike after govt assurance

BATHINDA/LUDHIANA, Aug. 5 -- Punjab Roadways and PRTC contractual workers called off their strike on Tuesday evening after the state government agreed to address their demands at a meeting with employ... Read More


Legal team examining DA order: Cheema

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- The Punjab government is legally examining the high court's order asking it to clear all pending Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears of its employees and pensioners, state finance mi... Read More


House passes resolution urging Centre to halt rollout of E20 fuel

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- The Punjab assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Centre not to make ethanol-blended E20 petrol the sole fuel available in the country. The House demanded... Read More


ED raids PSIEC offices, ex-officials in industrial plot allotment probe

Jalandhar, Aug. 5 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has launched searches across 11 locations in Punjab, including the Punjab Small Industries & Export Corporation (PSIEC) headquarters, regarding a ... Read More


Cong MLA seeks probe into bridgeconstruction delay over Ravi River

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- Dinanagar MLA Aruna Chaudhary on Tuesday sought an inquiry into the prolonged delay in the construction of two bridges over Ravi River at Makaura Pattan and the Upper Bari Doab C... Read More


Punjab halts excess fee recovery from private schools

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- The Punjab government on Tuesday assured the high court that it would not implement decision of retrospective excess fee recovery from private schools in the state till the Septe... Read More


Roof collapse kills couple in Kurukshetra village

ROHTAK, Aug. 5 -- : A couple was killed after the concrete roof of a room near their agricultural fields collapsed in Baraundi village under Ladwa subdivision of Kurukshetra district in the early hour... Read More


4 yrs after Panipat court awards death penalty, HC orders retrial

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- Four years after a trial court awarded death sentence to two persons for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in 2018, the Punjab and Haryana high court has remanded back th... Read More


Haryana among top three states in financial fraud cases: RBI data

ROHTAK, Aug. 5 -- Haryana has emerged as one of the country's biggest hotspots for financial frauds, consistently ranking among the top three states and union territories in the number of financial fr... Read More


Saini questions AAP's 'silence' over 'paper leaks' in Punjab

CHANDIGARH, Aug. 5 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday hit back at the Punjab government for passing a resolution in the state assembly "condemning" the BJP-led Union government and... Read More