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Covid: Haryana logs 96 cases, Himachal Pradesh 11 & Punjab 6

CHANDIGARH/SHIMLA: Haryana reported 96 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday. The state’s Covid count has reached 9,85,634 and the death toll is at 10,617. Meanwhile Himachal Pradesh reported 11 cases and Punjab six.

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Centre gave Rs 3,828 crore to Punjab in 4 years

CHANDIGARH: The central government has released over Rs 3,828 crore to the Punjab government under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) between 2018-19 and 2021-22. The state government received Rs 598 crore in 2018-19, Rs 776 crore in 2019-20, Rs 1,287 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 1,167 crore…

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Allow Gurbani broadcast on other platforms, says Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

CHANDIGARH: Urging the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to allow the state government to install advanced broadcast and communication technologies at the Golden Temple, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday said they (government) can provide all possible help in disseminating the ‘Sarb Sanji Gurbani’ across the globe.

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Punjab: CPCB finds 86% of sewage treatment plants in Satluj catchment area non-compliant

CHANDIGARH: Inspection undertaken by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has found 86% of the sewage treatment plants (STPs) in catchment of the Satluj to be non-compliant with the laid down norms, pointing to the lax attitude of the Punjab government towards discharge of pollutants in rivers.

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Learn from the Dutch to tackle climate change, save resources

CHANDIGARH: As key food-growing states of Punjab and Haryana face the onslaught of climate change, erratic rainfall, dwindling water availability, excessive use of chemicals and lack of crop diversification, they can learn from the tiny European nation, the Netherlands, that has successfully reclaimed land from sea, nourished its soil and…

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Convicted for 2 murders & 2 rapes, Dera chief Ram Rahim 'not hardcore prisoner', says Punjab and Haryana high court

CHANDIGARH: In a major respite to Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the controversial chief of Dera Sacha Sauda who is undergoing imprisonment in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail after being convicted for two murders and two rapes, the Punjab and Haryana high court has held that he does not fall in the category of…

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MC house for independent UT status, assembly for Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: Amid huge uproar, the municipal corporation (MC) general house gave a nod for complete Union Territory (UT) status to Chandigarh with its own Vidhan Sabha, so that there was no interference from Punjab and Haryana. The house resolved that assembly should be constituted in Chandigarh to enable people to…

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‘Punjab, Haryana neither give us funds nor jobs’

Chandigarh: The councillors of the BJP and the Congress lambasted the Punjab and Haryana governments for using Chandigarh’s facilities without giving a single penny in financial support. During a special general house held on Thursday, the ruling and opposition councillors said the state governments always set their agendas on the…

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Chandigarh civic body jumps into fight over city’s UT status

City should get its own Legislative Assembly so that residents can decide policies themselves, it says

The Hindu

Daily Dose Ep 1014: RS adjourned after ruckus, HC on TN medical admission quota

Salil Ahuja brings you the news from New Delhi, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Ukraine.

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Wary of AAP’s anti-graft campaign, Congress looks for Punjab party chief ‘without baggage’

NEW DELHI: As Congress seeks to renew its Punjab leadership, senior members have cautioned the party brass that it should be careful about the choice of state president, with focus on a “fresh individual without baggage” who is not vulnerable to the ruling AAP’s anti-corruption campaign.

The Times of India

Corruption in Punjab finished in 20 days, Himachal Pradesh's turn now: Arvind Kejriwal

MANDI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal launched party's "Mission Himachal" with its first ever roadshow and rally at Mandi in Himachal. Addressing the crowd, he declared that corruption in Punjab has finished in just 20 days and now it's Himachal's turn to become corruption-free.

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What is going on in Pakistan? And why has the US been dragged into it?

Pakistan, a nuclear nation that is home to some 220 million people, is in a political mess.

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'Elect AAP to end corruption': Kejriwal, Mann to voters in Himachal Pradesh

SHIMLA: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday urged voters here to elect the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the coming elections if they want corruption eradicated from the state. Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh are scheduled to be held later this year.

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Relocation plans | Meghalaya government to meet Shillong’s Punjabi Lane residents

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Punjab CM announces taskforce to deal with gangsters

CHANDIGARH: To combat the network of gangsters operating in the state, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday directed DGP Punjab VK Bhawra to set up a full-fledged Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) headed by an ADGP rank officer.

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Discus Thrower Kirpal Singh ends 6-year wait to breach 60m barrier

CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s Kirpal Singh Batth is finally a relieved man. After all, the discus thrower’s years of struggle and patience bore fruit on Tuesday when he managed to hurl the discus past the 61m mark, thereby breaking a two-decade meet record at Kozhikode.

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Punjab’s claim over Chandigarh ‘not acceptable to the people of Haryana’

Haryana Assembly passes resolution urging Centre to settle ‘all the issues emanating from the reorganisation of Punjab’

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No other priority than peace in Punjab: Sidhu slams AAP over law and order situation

Former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party government over the law and order situation in the state and said that it is a "jungle raj", adding that there should be no other priority than law and order and peace in the…

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Change of guard in Himachal Congress ahead of polls can prove costly, say party leaders

They cite the example of Punjab where Amarinder was removed before elections

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Chandigarh belongs to Punjab: Navjot Sidhu

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said Chandigarh belongs to Punjab and will always remain so and predicted that its next big battle with Haryana will be over river waters.

The Times of India

ED files chargesheet against former Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew and others

LUDHIANA: In the case against Bhupinder Singh Honey, nephew of former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed the chargesheet in a Jalandhar court on Friday. The agency has also named Honey's close ally Kudratdeep Singh, against whom Punjab police in 2018 had registered FIR…

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Punjab: Border school gets AC, auditorium

BATHINDA: A government school at Chananwala village barely 3 kilometres from the Pakistan border has witnessed a turnaround and become Punjab’s first air-conditioned campus with auditorium.

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Summer of 1966: When tempers rose before Punjab’s reorganisation

JALANDHAR: When the vexed issues of Bhakra Beas Management Board and Chandigarh are back in discourse as the Punjab assembly has passed a resolution for capital’s transfer, many are thinking of 1966 when tempers ran high in the region over the proposal for reorganising the state. There were not just…

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Punjab education minister faces his 1st protest at Barnala home

BATHINDA: In less than three weeks of formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab, the first protest pertaining to the education sector took place on Sunday, outside the residence of education minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer in Barnala.

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