Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has registered a case against an Executive Engineer (XEN), posted as Municipal Town Planner (MTP) of Bathinda Municipal Corporation, on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
In an initiative aimed at safeguarding the health of its youngest citizens and ensuring a healthier future, the Punjab government has successfully provided free heart surgeries to as many as 341 children suffering from congenital heart disease during the financial year 2024-25 so far.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP government for meting out step motherly treatment to the state thereby trying to jeopardise development and progress of Punjab.
Punjab School Education Minister said that the flying squads will be led by District Education Officers (DEOs), Principals, members of the PSEB, and members of the Board’s Academic Councils.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, arrested Suresh Kumar, a clerk posted at Nagar Council, Malout, in the Sri Muktsar Sahib district, foraccepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a underprivileged widow.
The Punjab Police has busted an inter-state illegal weapon smuggling module with the arrest of two Madhya Pradesh (MP) based arms suppliers involved in large-scale illegal manufacturing and supply of weapons from MP into Punjab as well as other states.
Two days after the Punjab Police busted a cross-border drug smuggling racket and recovered six kilogram (kg) heroin, a follow-up investigation into the case on Saturday led to recovery of four kg heroin concealed beneath the road in a village Bute Dian Chhana in Mehatpur, Jalandhar.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday demanded immediate registration of a criminal case against former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi for allegedly duping four ex-servicemen from the Scheduled Caste community and two others of Rs 45 lakh on the pretext of inducting them into the Punjab Police.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday accused Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit of deliberately not allotting land to AAP for its Punjab unit office in Chandigarh.
Thirteen dumper trucks of Punjab involved in illegal mining in riverbed of J&K's Kathua district were on Thursday seized by the district mineral officer. Three dumpers, however, managed to flee.
