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FINMIN rejects HP's request to enhance borrowing limit

Shimla, Sept. 24 -- Citing "wrong precedent" to other states, the Union finance ministry has turned down the request of the Himachal government to increase the borrowing limit to help it tide fiscal c... Read More


Give buttermilk, pizzas to kids to quash FIRs: HC to fighting neighbours

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Delhi High Court has directed two feuding neighbours to serve pizzas and buttermilk to children at a government-run childcare institution, as a condition for quashing cross ... Read More


Ferozepur Cantt to delhi Vande Bharat gets the greenlight

Chandigarh, Sept. 24 -- Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced a new Rajpura-Mohali railway line in Punjab, costing Rs.443 crore and spanning 18km, besides proposing a new Vande Bharat... Read More


Himachal HC commutes death penalty of two convicts, acquits 1

Shimla:, Sept. 24 -- The Himachal Pradesh high court on Tuesday acquitted a convict and commuted the death sentence of two to life term in the 2014 kidnapping and murder of four-year-old Shimla boy Yu... Read More


Govt can't be told to create posts for regularisation: HC

Chandigarh, Sept. 24 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed petitions from 70 odd part-time workers from Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), seeking regularisation of their ser... Read More


'zila parishad, panchayat samiti staff pensions to be credited in bank accounts'

Chandigarh, Sept. 24 -- Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday announced that pensions for retired employees of the state's zila parishads and panchayat samitis will now be directly cr... Read More


Kataria briefs PM on flood aid, seeks devp push in border dists

Chandigarh, Sept. 24 -- Punjab governor and Chandigarh administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and apprised him of the prevailing situation in ... Read More


2 pistols, 3kg heroin seized; 1 held

AMRITSAR, Sept. 24 -- The Amritsar rural police arrested a smuggler and recovered two pistols and 3kg of heroin, officials said. Sharing details, superintendent of police (detective) Aditya Warrier sa... Read More


Now, pay less for Verka products after GST cuts

Mohali, Sept. 24 -- : Verka on Tuesday reduced the prices of its dairy products following the implementation of the revised GST rates under GST 2.0 announced by the central government. The one-litre t... Read More


Dera Beas head meets Majithia in Nabha jail

Patiala, Sept. 24 -- Spiritual head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon on Tuesday met Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been lodged in the New District Jai... Read More