Saturday 14 March '09
This motto of Alexander Dumas’ ‘Three Musketeers’ and the traditional motto of Switzerland might well become the slogan of the Excise and Taxation Department of Punjab.Sunday 8 March '09
The Haryana Police has been fighting a losing battle with rats that have eaten their way through official files and records.....Thursday
5 March '09With or without him, the treasury benches legislators just can't get over former CM Capt Amarinder Singh. Due to his expulsion from the state assembly...Saturday
14 February '09The high-powered meeting held today at New Delhi to fill 10 vacancies of IAS officers in Punjab remained inconclusive...Tuesday
10 February '09The state government has drawn flak from the Centre for slow implementation of proposed public reforms in urban areas in the state...Saturday
7 February '09It's not an off-season offer or a marketing gimmick to pull up sales. A tractor will cost Rs 6,000 less, over and above the usual discount being offered by dealers.Friday
6 February '09As if the recurring problem of "non-cooperation" of its alliance partner was not enough, there is a complete disconnect between the BJP ministers, who have had public squabbles on stage in the presence of the Chief Minister.Thursday
8 January '09Professor of Criminal Justice at Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts, Christopher E Stone, who has undertaken extensive research work on practices in justice reform systems across several countries, including India...Wednesday
31 December '08For Punjab, 2008 witnessed some unprecedented political upheavals, foremost being the ouster of former CM Capt Amarinder Singh from the Assembly by the treasury benches.Tuesday
23 December '08The ongoing bout of economic recession, especially in the real estate sector, now seems to have caught up with Punjab’s much-touted scheme on optimum land utilisation...Saturday
20 December '08Encroachments have crept upon even the Centrally-protected monuments and heritage structures in Punjab.Saturday
20 December '08Encroachments have crept upon even the Centrally-protected monuments and heritage structures in Punjab.Friday
19 December '08An estimated Rs 150 crore of public money spent every year on guarding Punjab’s VIPs notwithstanding, the state government’s largesse to provide security “free of cost” to the cash-rich Punjab Cricket Association...Saturday
13 December '08An official aspiring to be nominated for the Punjab Civil Services now has to have an annual confidential report rating as “very good” in at least three out of the last five reports.Thursday
11 December '08Former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh has shared a peculiar equation with the Punjab Congress ever since the last assembly elections.Saturday
6 December '08The “bonhomie” between former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is fast fading, with the party’s much-touted election campaign programme, beginning Monday, having exposed the infighting yet again.Saturday
29 November '08District revenue officers (DRO) in each Punjab district have been designated as fast-track courts for settlement of NRI cases...Wednesday
26 November '08An official report with the government has pointed to a complete lack of reading habits among students in Punjab.Tuesday
25 November '08The Punjab government's walk-to-work scheme, which was aimed at offering next-to-workplace housing to company employees to attract investments...Wednesday
19 November '08Agitating employees striking work, raising slogans, blocking rail road traffic and holding the government to ransom have been commonly associated with protests in Punjab.Thursday
13 November '08Just days before leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was divested of the post of president the Punjab Congress...Wednesday
12 November '08Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's last week's advisory to his Cabinet colleagues on attending office, at least three days a week, found no takers on the first day.Tuesday
11 November '08The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) isn't much impressed with the way its ministers have been treating party's much-flaunted public meeting sessions held everyday at the party office here.Tuesday
4 November '08The state government will introduce the concept of ‘walk to work’ in its new industrial policy to give corporate players investing in Punjab the added advantage of next-door housing for employees.Thursday
30 October '08Punjab’s ruling party, the Shrimoni Akali Dal, and the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party appear to have resolved differences that cropped up after the SAD insisted on contesting the Delhi Assembly elections under its own party symbol.
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