Chandigarh: Teachers sans pay for 2 months, threaten stir
Government school teachers in the city are struggling to make ends meet with empty pockets. The teachers appointed under the Samagra Shiksha scheme have not received...
High Court
HC slams Himachal govt over unpaid ₹30 crore for central varsity campus
The high court (HC) has taken strong exception to the state government’s changing stand on funding infrastructure and forest clearance-related requirements for the Central University of...
Darbar resumes in Jammu: CM calls for expediting projects
Jammu: Marking the official resumption of the traditional biannual darbar move, chief minister Omar Abdullah was accorded a ceremonial guard of honour on at the Civil...
Centre’s nod must for raising retirement age of Panjab University, constituent college faculty: HC
The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has held that Centre’s nod is required for taking any decision about the retirement age of faculty of Panjab...
Villages in Himachal adapting climate change with new crops, revived springs
Having witnessed losses owing to natural disasters since the last three years, villages in Himachal Pradesh are already adapting to climate change by making changes in...
‘Lack of basic knowledge’: Himachal HC pulls up district judge over flawed MACT order
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh high court has expressed strong displeasure with a judicial officer handling a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) case, observing that their ruling...
Punjab Police in court seeking removal of posts targeting DGP, woman officer
Punjab Police have moved court seeking the removal of two posts on social media site “X”, allegedly targeting the Punjab director general of police (DGP) and...
Haryana: A welfare state can’t abandon a soldier, says HC
The Punjab and Haryana high court has criticised the authorities for denying disability pension to a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan, who injured himself in a...
HC commutes death penalty of four to 30-year jail in 2023 Kurukshetra doctor’s murder case
The Punjab and Haryana high court has commuted death sentence, awarded to four men, to 30-year-jail and acquitted one woman in the January 2023 murder of...
Chandigarh: Goyal is PU teachers’ body president
Parveen Goyal of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) won the presidential post of Panjab University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) on Wednesday by a margin of...