NURMAHAL: Encroachments on space meant for pedestrians by vendors and shopkeepers had become a routine in Nurmahal town as the nagar council authorities have failed to act against the violators.

CHANDIGARH: Border Security Force (BSF) troopers celebrated Diwali on Thursday along the border out posts of Punjab's international border with Pakistan.

KOLKATA:  A fire enveloped the 16th floor of a high-rise building here on Thursday, officials said.

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh today approved increase in the gross annual income limit for the creamy layer of the Other Backward Classes/Backward Classes from Rs.6 lakh to Rs.8 lakh.

Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab president and Sangrur MP, Bhagwant Mann has strongly condemned Captain Amarinder Singh led Congress government in Punjab for forcibly imposing the rejected leaders on the people of Punjab just the way SAD-BJP government did during its previous tenures. 

Chandigarh:  The Shiromani Akali Dal today hit back at the state Congress leadership including its MLAs for advising the SAD on its internal matters and said that instead of advising us, the Congress leadership including MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa should advise his national boss Rahul Gandhi to quit Congress and politics as under his leadership the position of Congress party has nosedived nationally and Congress has lost almost all the election fought under his leadership since 2014 general elections.