Monthly Archives: April 2018
States collect Rs 37K-crore labour cess, 75% unspent
April 30th, 2018
Chandigarh: The state governments in the country collected more than Rs 37,000 crore as cess for welfare of construction workers over the years. But when it came to its spending, most of the states seem to have shied away.According to ...
Ludhiana man FIDE World amateur chess champ in u-2300 group
April 30th, 2018
Chandigarh: Arvinder Preet from Ludhiana has become the first Indian to win the Fide World Amateur Championship in the under-2300 category.He became the champion in the world event that concluded at Cagliari, Italy, earlier on Monday. Arvinder scored seven out ...
Youth hurt in clash dies, Phagwara tense
April 30th, 2018
Phagwara: A Dalit youth who was critically injured in a violent clash over the renaming of an NH-1 traffic intersection on April 13 succumbed to injuries at a Ludhiana hospital early on Sunday.Yashwant Bobby, 19, who had suffered gunshot injuries, ...
History syllabus row: SGPC wants Capt to apologise
April 30th, 2018
Amritsar: The SGPC has sought an apology from Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh over deletion of chapters on Sikh history from the syllabus of Class XII.Echoing similar views, former Deputy CM and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal called the Punjab ...
AAP leaders flay govt, demand rectification
April 30th, 2018
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday criticised the state government for deleting 23 chapters related to the Sikh Gurus and important events in Sikh history from the class XII history book of the Punjab School Education Board.AAP termed ...
Parliamentary panel to visit border areas in Sikkim, Arunachal
April 30th, 2018
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and including Rahul Gandhi, would visit border areas in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh next month to take stock of the situation following the Doklam crisis ...
Armed with ‘audio-visual proof’, TDP attacks BJP on unfulfilled promises
April 30th, 2018
Tirupati: Four years ago, in 2014, on the same day (April 30) at the abode of Lord Balaji in Tirupati, Narendra Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate for the Lok Sabha elections “made several promises to 5 crore people of Andhra Pradesh, ...
New nominations in Brampton
April 30th, 2018
Liberal Safdar Hussain Wins Nomination From Brampton Centre, Baljit Bawa Loses From Brampton North, Pc’s Ripu Dhillon Wins Nomination
Now, Maharashtra Ligayats hit the streets for minority status
April 30th, 2018
Mumbai,: Members of the Lingayat community have been holding protests across Maharashtra to press for the status of a minority religion ever since the Karnataka government made a similar recommendation to the Centre.According to the Akhil Bharatiya Lingayat Samanvay Samiti, ...
