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Govt to cap pvt school fee hikes at 5% annually: CM

Chandigarh, June 4 -- The Punjab government has decided to cap fee hikes in private schools in the state at 5% annually, following the suicide of a 17-year-old student allegedly due to fee-related har... Read More


ED grills ex-Faridkot MLA Kiki Dhillon for 9 hours

Jalandhar, June 4 -- Congress leader and former MLA from Faridkot Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon, alias Kiki Dhillon, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Jalandhar on Wednesday, joining a Pr... Read More


Nod to heritage street at Anandpur Sahib, welcome gate at Shambhu border

Chandigarh, June 4 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday approved two projects aimed at promoting the state's cultural, religious and architectural heritage - a grand welcome gate at the Shambh... Read More


Two held with 2kg heroin, 6 pistols in Amritsar

AMRITSAR, June 4 -- In a crackdown on cross-border smuggling networks, Punjab Police busted an illegal arms and drug trafficking module allegedly linked to handlers across the International Border, ar... Read More


Punjab's first Jat Sikh BJP chief Kewal Singh Dhillon takes charge

Chandigarh, June 4 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday installed Kewal Singh Dhillon as its first-ever Jat Sikh state president. The 76-year-old industrialist-turned-politician formally t... Read More


Differently abled man shot dead in Jhajjar village

ROHTAK, June 4 -- : A 50-year-old differently abled man was shot dead inside his house in Dighal village in Jhajjar late Tuesday night, the police said. According to police, an armed assailant entered... Read More


Ex-HP chief secy Gupta takes charge as PSERC chairperson

Chandigarh, June 4 -- Former Himachal Pradesh chief secretary Sanjay Gupta, a 1988-batch IAS officer who retired on May 31, on Tuesday assumed charge as the chairperson of the Punjab State Electricity... Read More


Women go on hunger strike in Hansi village

ROHTAK, June 4 -- A day after Hansi police registered two FIRs against 31 residents of Chaint village for allegedly disrupting work on an under-construction pipeline and blocking the Hansi-Barwala roa... Read More


Archana Gupta takes reins of Haryana BJP

CHANDIGARH, June 4 -- Archana Gupta, a radiologist by profession and a grass-roots worker of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), formally took over on Wednesday as Haryana BJP's second woman president i... Read More


Power regulator flags 'cherry-picking' risk

Chandigarh, June 4 -- : Haryana's power regulator has flagged potential "cherry-picking" of profitable consumers and raised concerns about the financial capability, operational preparedness of a 2025 ... Read More