“This sacred land is a source of inspiration for not only Sikhs but all of humanity. Thousands of devotees converge here every year to pay respect to sahibzadas and Mata Gujri on their martyrdom day," said the chief minister, while chairing a meeting here today.

In a presentation on the second day of a symposium organised at the PAU, Bains informed that the NFHS data presented a sorry figure of Punjab as far as prevalence of anaemia is concerned.

A first-time MLA who crossed over to AAP from the Akali Dal, Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra claims he went into his second marriage with the consent of his first. However, the second wife has lodged a complaint with the Zirakpur Police Station accusing the MLA of hiding his first marriage.

Upholding the single-judge bench’s order, the HC bench dismissed the state government’s appeal saying it has “no merit”. The single-judge bench’s direction to not insist on the said clause of domicile status “does not suffer from any infirmity”, the bench noted.

In the complaint registered with the Umra police station, Bhanderi said that he was at the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University on August 16 afternoon, while counting of the Senate member election was in progress, when leaders of ABVP and BJYM verbally abused him and later physically assaulted him. 

The order came in response to an earlier plea filed by Barot after his pay was reduced from Rs 10,000 to Rs 9,000 based on a pay scale revision by the UGC in 2017 as per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission.

A bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice AJ Shastri on Thursday heard the plea when Aaditya Bhatt, advocate appearing on behalf of the petitioners, submitted that the Statue of Unity is located in a scheduled area.

A number of voluntary organisations have also announced a demonstration against the remission of the sentences in Ahmedabad on Friday. The protest was announced by Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, a voluntary organisation working for the welfare of women.

Sources said the excise official, who is under investigation, had sealed a shop of the liquor retailer in Gurgaon on August 15 for “illegally selling liquor” to harass the retailer.

On February 19, a judicial magistrate had declared Kartikeya an absconder and issued arrest warrant against him. The Patna High Court had dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in 2017.

Meanwhile, a para teacher organisation, ‘Parsho Shikshak Oikya Mancha’ organised a protest march from Sealdah station to Rani Rashmoni Avenue demanding “proper pay scale structure” and “child care as well as retirement benefits” from the government.

A four-member team including a woman officer had gone to Mondal's Nichupatti residence here as a part of the probe, but left within 10 minutes after Sukanya refused to talk to them.

Addressing the media on the sidelines of a party programme in the Kolkata, the Union minister alleged that the state government was taking the state in the backward direction.

The decision was taken by the Chief Minister on a proposal given by Punjab State Civil Aviation Council. The CM said that Punjab's century-old history of operating in civil aviation sector, needs to be showcased for the knowledge and education of coming generations.

Dhruv Giri, father of the victim, said that on Monday, “My wife was sitting on the pillion seat and our son Daksh was standing on the foot mat of the scooter. When we reached Gill Canal Bridge a plastic kite string entangled around his neck and slit his throat”. Dhruv stated that he rushed Daksh to the hospital with the help of locals, where he succumbed to the injuries.

Chand pointed out that Punjab is the only state where the share of income from agriculture for cultivators and labour is higher than the share of its labour force in the non-agriculture sector.

He will be in Punjab for the first time ever since Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took over the reins of the state. Before elections, when Charanjit Singh Channi was the Chief Minister, Modi’s visit to Punjab was embroiled in a row due to breach in his security.

The Raj Bhavan stated that Khan, in his capacity as Chancellor of the university, “stayed the Resolution (No. 2022.313 dated 27.06.2022) of Kannur University Syndicate and all further proceedings pursuant to the selection procedure...with immediate effect until further orders”.

A sea of humanity turned up at Haldwani’s Saraswati Vihar Colony, where Shanti Devi, 63, wife of Lance Naik Harbola, lives with her elder daughter and granddaughters. The two-storey house of the martyr was decorated, befitting the long-awaited homecoming of a martyr.

According to documents with The Indian Express, as late as last year from 2021 to 2022, internal communication on the file of Sukhdev Singh showed how the officials continued to seek plot area of his property for almost one year, even though it was clearly mentioned on page numbers 26 and 27 of his file.

While the new policy offers 10 per cent capital subsidy against the earlier 15 per cent for the Bundelkhand region, the maximum limit has been raised from Rs 15 crore to Rs 500 crore.

State Education Minister Bratya Basu, while terming the death a “tragic incident,” denied the claims. Basu said there was an investigation against the headmaster after his retirement in 2019 for “financial irregularities” and the state government had, later, started his pension in January 2021

At Bilkis Bano’s village in Dahod’s Singvad, which she left during  the riots, there was an edgy silence as a stream of guests visited the 11 convicts, most of whom were her neighbours once. The celebrations to mark their homecoming, after 14 years in jail, were muted.

The FIR in the case, registered on Saturday after Indra Kumar Meghwal’s death, says that on July 20, the child was beaten up by his upper-caste teacher for allegedly drinking water from a pot meant for the teacher.