Himachal govt to widen key roads in Shimla to ease traffic congestion
To ease out the state capital’s traffic congestion, around 200 families are likely to be displaced as the public works department (PWD) has issued a land...
High Court
Over 1 lakh cases settled at National Lok Adalat in Ludhiana
54 benches set up across Ludhiana, Jagraon, Samrala, Khanna and Payal; awards worth ₹260 crore passed More than 1.23 lakh cases were settled and awards worth...
Punjab and Haryana high court strikes down Section 147A of Income Tax Act
The Punjab and Haryana high court has declared Section 147-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, unconstitutional, holding that the legislature could not, through a retrospective...
Day before HC hearing, UT notifies tenancy rules
A day before the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) was scheduled to hear the matter, the UT administration on Thursday notified the Union Territory of...
Punjab: HC blow to 2,000 PRTC outsourced workers seeking job regularisation
The Punjab and Haryana high court has turned down the plea of outsourced employees of PEPSU Roadways Transport Corporation (PRTC) seeking regularisation of their services. Though 90...
Give plots to Bluestar oustees in two months: HC to Punjab
Forty-two years after the shops around the Golden Temple were badly damaged during Operation Bluestar, the high court has directed the Punjab government to allot booths/...
BJP breaches Congress bastion in Shimla zila parishad
Shimla: In a major political shift, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed candidates on Thursday secured control of the 25-member Shimla Zila Parishad, a long-held Congress stronghold, winning...
Failure to ensure SC safeguards for quota: Tribunal quashes I-T promotion panels
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Chandigarh, has quashed fresh draft promotion panels prepared by the Income Tax department after holding that the department had not followed...
Chandigarh: HC for regularisation of 40-odd faculty of PU, colleges working on contract basis
The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has upheld a single judge order that mandated Panjab University (PU) to regularise the services of contract teachers serving...
Concern grows over structures linked with Muslim community in wake of notices, demolition in Uttar Pradesh
Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday (September 9, 2026) expressed concern that targeting of mosques and structures linked to the Muslim community will intensify across...