Punjab

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait to address Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur

Protesters won’t return home till agreement is reached: Tikait

10:55 pm February 12, 2021

Bahadurgarh: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday revealed plans by farmer leaders to hold meetings in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat and said protesters in Delhi will not return home until the Centre reaches an “agreement” with them. It was not immediately clear if the remark made at a ”mahapanchayat” here was a climb down from Tikait’s earlier assertion […]

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

Dentist in Delhi HC for criminal prosecution of NCB chief, judge recuses

10:41 pm February 12, 2021

New Delhi : A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court by a dentist seeking directions to the Centre, Central Vigilance Commission and CBI to investigate and launch criminal prosecution on his complaint against Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chief Rakesh Asthana. The matter was listed on Friday before Justice Yogesh Khanna who recused from the […]

Red Fort incident: Delhi court sends actor-activist Deep Sidhu to 7-day police custody

11:51 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi : A Delhi court Tuesday sent actor-activist Deep Sidhu to 7-day police custody in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day during farmers” tractor parade against the Centre’s three new agri laws. Metropolitan Magistrate Prigya Gupta sent Sidhu to custody after the police alleged he was one of the main instigators of […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Punjab SC commission seeks intervention in labour rights activist case

11:41 pm February 8, 2021

Chandigarh: The Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Monday asked a state additional chief secretary to intervene in the case pertaining to labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, who was arrested on January 12 for allegedly gherao an industrial unit with others in Haryana’s Sonipat. Kaur, whose bail was denied by the Sonipat court early this month, […]

Three final offers received for PMC Bank resolution, says RBI Guv

7:38 pm February 5, 2021

Mumbai: Three investors have submitted their final offers for resolution of crisis-ridden Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank and their evaluation is underway, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday. Last month, the bank’s administrator A K Dixit had said that three investors were given time till February 1, 2021 for submissions of their final offer. ”I have been informed that three final offers […]