People's Party of Punjab president Manpreet Singh Badal has demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court into the alleged misuse of government machinery in the recently held rural local bodies' elections.
The vigilance bureau has arrested an inspector of the Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited (PUNSUP) on Thursday evening for his alleged involvement in the wheat embezzlement amounting to Rs 2.33 crore at Baghapurana in this district.
The Moga district police, in its drive against drugs, narcotics and smugglers, nabbed a man with 40kg poppy husk on Wednesday evening.
The facility of free uniforms to government school students up to Class 8 is spelling trouble for the teachers, who struggle to buy all the items from the paltry sum they are supposed to spend. Teachers have to buy trousers, shirt, cap, sweater, shoes, socks from meager Rs 400.
The Shiromani Akali Dal has won the all 14 seats of zila parishad in Moga district. Senior akali leader Paramjit Singh Tarewala won the Fatehgarh zila parishad zone by a huge margin of 15,732 votes.
Around 18 Congress workers, who had staged a protest in front of the counting centre at Mansa on Tuesday against the alleged rigging of votes, have been booked by the Mansa police.
The SAD-BJP combine registered a big victory in the block samiti and zila parishad elections in this district while the Congress won only on five seats of the total 110. The main competition was between the ruling SAD-BJP combine and the Congress while the People's Party of Punjab (PPP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) were also in the contest.
Except for the one seat that it won unopposed in alliance with the SAD, the BJP has failed to make an impression in all four block samiti seats in Muktsar district where its candidates were contesting against the SAD and other candidates.
A few deceased and NRIs also allegedly cast their vote at Kothe Gajjan Singh Wala village, near Kotkapura, in the block samiti and zila parishad elections.
The district agriculture department has claimed that lesser area will be brought under paddy this year and around 8,000 hectares will be shifted from paddy to some other crops.This is owing to the marketing factors as well as compulsion of the farmers. So far, farmers have not got any viable options for diversification.
While honoring all four students from the district who figured in the merit list of class-12 examination declared by the Punjab School Education Board, Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal, chairman, Baba Farid Group of Institutions, Deaon, Bathinda, claimed that the success of the students is a victory over the culture of private tuition and dummy admission in schools.
Around 83% voters turned up at the re-polling to the Jalalabad zone of zila parishad and Indergarh zone of panchayat samiti at booth number 155 of Indergarh village under the Dharamkot assembly constituency on Monday.
The police on Sunday arrested two travel agents of Jalandhar district for defrauding a youth of R19 lakh on assurance of sending him abroad. Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Surjit Singh Grewal said a special team was constituted under the supervision of an SP-level officer on Saturday to nab the suspects on a tip-off. "They were trying to flee abroad but police nabbed them," said the SSP.
The polling for zila parishad and block samiti elections in Moga district was marked by various incidents of violence, booth capturing, influencing and threatening voters in various parts.
An assistant sub-inspector was allegedly assaulted on Saturday night by the SAD candidate along with his supporters after the police official argued with some Akali workers over some issue.