Jagdeep Singh Deep

The examination will be held at more than 600 centres across the state, with 28 candidates appearing at each centre. Students will be allotted a centre on January 16.

The court of special CBI judge GS Sekhon fixed February 26 as the next date of hearing in the case.

Municipal Engineer of Zirakpur Municipal Council Mukesh Rai said that the Punjab government had paved the way for the land acquisition and completion of the road.

It is a challenging job because people don’t like talking about ‘Sex Education’ and don’t understand its importance even though it is extremely important.

The chargesheet stated that a vast network of hawala and other channels have been used to smuggle narcotics to India through the legitimate trade route between India and Pakistan under the garb of import of rock salt.

GMADA identified many properties where commercial activities are being run without taking permission. These properties are situated in Phase VII and Phase 3-B2. In the coming days notices will be issued to the owners of such properties. 

"We have identified 68 such centres in the city where there is no fire safety arrangement. These centres are located in the congested areas and are being run from the showrooms. Most of such centres are located in Phase VI and Phase 3-B2.”

Ajay Gupta was granted bail on November 25 by a special NIA court in Mohali. The court had pointed out NIA’s failure to take Gupta’s custody for questioning while granting him bail.

The MC officials heading the project told Chandigarh Newsline that the MC had completed the process of floating tenders for inviting companies and the work for the treatment would start soon.

Ajay Gupta was arrested in July by the Customs Department, and the case was taken over by the NIA is September. 

The directive came in the wake of recent advertisements of a company, which was promoting its project under an affordable housing scheme as ‘Lok Awas’, however, the project had relations with the Prime Minister’s Lok Awas Yojna.

Kashmiri salt trader Tarik Ahmad Lone was arrested and 532 kg heroin with an approximate market value of Rs 2,700 crore was seized at the Wagah-Attari border. The contraband was being smuggled from Pakistan via the trade route.

With GMADA encouraging land pooling scheme in its projects, the increase in number of commercial properties could be an issue for the owners.

The agency had alleged that Ajay Gupta, a Chartered Accountant (CA) by profession, was the man who used to receive the drugs consignments and was in contact with the main accused Tariq Lone.

Special Judge G S Sekhon on Wednesday resumed hearing the CBI’s plea to keep in abeyance a closure report filed by the agency earlier in the three Bargari sacrilege cases.

The government has planned to acquire 84.1 acre land in Chao Majra, Chilla, Raipur Khurd and Mauli Baidwan villages for the same.

The customs department had seized one of the largest cache of drugs from international border in Attari in June this year and recovered 532 kg heroin from a salt consignment

For the first time the state government is trying to woo the investors with land banks which were created in the last few years to provide land for the companies coming to Punjab for investment.

The road connects Chandigarh and Mohali to Fatehgarh Sahib district. The government will acquire a total of 6.9 acres of land for the widening of the road.