Coffee brews new hope for Araku’s tribal farmers
Visakhapatnam: As the world celebrates International Coffee Day today, the Araku Valley in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh is fast becoming a major destination for...
Punjab
Sector 70 continues to battle garbage mounds despite pollution board directions
Despite directions from the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to clear an open dumping site in Sector 70, municipal waste, plastic waste, debris and cow dung...
‘No outside dumping’: HC seeks Chandigarh MC affidavit on waste processing
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday directed the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) to file a specific affidavit from the municipal commissioner stating the city’s...
Chandigarh: Mother’s cross-examination deferred in Sippy Sidhu murder case
The special CBI court on Wednesday deferred the cross-examination of prosecution witness Deepinder Kaur in the 2015 murder case of lawyer and shooter Sippy Sidhu, with...
Chandigarh: FIR lodged after HC lawyer reports threat from gangsters in jail
Police have registered a case after an advocate at the Punjab and Haryana high court alleged that he received threats from gangsters in jails over an...
No more trips to Chandigarh Estate Office, property services now a tap away
Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Wednesday e-launched two citizen-centric initiatives of the Chandigarh Estate Office — the e-Sampada CHD mobile application and...
Mohali court slaps contempt notice on GMADA collector over compensation dispute
The additional district judge has issued a show-cause notice to the land acquisition collector (LAC), Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA), over alleged non-compliance with court...
Raja Warring set to quit as Punjab Congress chief 5 months before polls; Vijay Inder Singla frontrunner for post
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring is set to be replaced following weeks of infighting in the state unit, people familiar with the development said...
Amit Shah promises drug-free Punjab by December 2029
Jalandhar: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday pledged that the BJP, if voted to power in Punjab, will eradicate the trade of “chitta” (synthetic drugs)...
‘China will do anything to suppress’: US lawmakers meet Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, back Tibetan cause
Dharamshala: A bipartisan US congressional delegation met the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in Himachal Pradesh’s hill town of Dharamshala on Wednesday. The five-member delegation,...