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In what appears to be a cause of concern, Ludhiana continues to be the most fatal district with maximum road accident deaths in the state during the past three years, a government report has confirmed.

In another “Dangal”, four girls belonging to a border village of Gatti Rajoke have won gold medal in kabaddi at the state-level championship despite all trials and tribulations that came their way. The championship had taken place from December 19-22 at Barnala.

The Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, today nabbed a senior operator at Barnala sewa kendra, Arvind Chakshu, and another person, Satwinder Singh, alias Satpal Singh for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000.

Former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal in a letter addressed to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari today sought his “personal intervention” for expediting the process to start construction of a flyover at the Barnala bypass in Bathinda.

India’s Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) has laid the keel for the Indian Navy’s two anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft (ASW SWC).

The Department of Rural Development and Panchayats had launched a campaign this year to get rid of illegal possessions and demarcation of panchayat lands in villages. Under this, encroachments have been razed from over 9,389 acres of panchayat land.

CHANDIGARH, Dec 30: Fifty-six Government schools with caste tag have been renamed by the Punjab Government, weeks after School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains issued an order to rechristen those named on the basis of caste and fraternity. The School Education department changed the names of 56 Government schools, including primary and high schools. The schools have now been renamed after the village they are located in, or a known personality, martyr or a local hero. The department had sou...

The employees of the Water Supply and Sanitation Department working on contractual basis organised a rally and staged a march here today. The protest was staged under the aegis of ‘Jal Supply Ate Sanitation Contract Workers Union, Punjab’. The agitating employees, under the leadership of

The schools have now been renamed after the village they are located in, or a known personality, martyr or a local hero.

The schools have now been renamed after the village they are located in, or a known personality, martyr or a local hero