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Articles by Chitleen K Sethi
Another makeover for New Chandigarh, notification by month-end
The Punjab government has once again revised the New Chandigarh Master Plan, this time adding minute details of land use in various zones while dividing the proposed city into 20 sectors numbered till 21.
Updated on Jul 09, 2015 11:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Mohali
ED silent for 2 yrs on UK court's request for info on Lalit Modi
The enforcement directorate didn’t reply for over two years to a 2013 request by a London court seeking details of investigations against former-IPL chief Lalit Modi for alleged money laundering, documents accessed by HT show.
Updated on Jul 06, 2015 05:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, New Delhi
Punjab to extend vigilance bureau’s catchment area
In a delayed rectification, the Punjab government has decided to broaden the jurisdiction of its vigilance bureau so that it can book its employees serving in Chandigarh in trap cases.
Updated on Jul 03, 2015 11:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Armed Forces Preparatory Institute training young guns to join armed forces
“We are men of the land of five rivers…” goes the SAS Nagar-based Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (AFPI) song. A Punjab government venture named after Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the institute has won accolades for having brought back Punjabi boys for permanent commission into the armed forces through the National Defence Academy (NDA).
Updated on Jun 18, 2015 09:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Officers with green cards: No rule book puts Punjab govt in quandary
The Punjab government has landed itself in a tricky situation. Having almost ended a year-long exercise of identifying officers who are permanent residents of foreign countries, the state government now doesn’t know what do to with them. In absence of any specific instructions in the conduct rules for such employees, the government is trying hard to figure out what action it can take in such cases.
Updated on Jun 12, 2015 06:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi
Chief secy calls meeting to mull action against officers holding green cards
The Punjab chief secretary has called for a meeting of all principal secretaries of the government to deliberate on what action is to be taken against the officers found to be permanent residents and green-card holders of foreign countries. The meeting will take place on June 3.
Updated on May 30, 2015 09:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Now, PIDB to develop forest area around Sukhbir’s project
The Badal government has set the ball rolling on an ambitious project to develop the Siswan dam and its surrounding areas in Rupnagar district as a major eco-tourism attraction.
Updated on May 24, 2015 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
One IPS, 4 PCS officers to be chargesheeted for violations
The Punjab government is all set to chargesheet an IPS officer and four PCS officers (two retired) for violating various conduct rules in planning and setting up a housing colony in Amritsar and indulging in commercial activity through it.
Updated on May 14, 2015 10:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Moga incident: Badal family falls back on CM to bail it out
In a crisis that seemed to have jolted the Badal family more severely than any other incident since 2002, the extended Badal parivaar had to finally fall back on the political acumen of octogenarian chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to bail them out.
Updated on May 05, 2015 06:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Moga molestation incident: Co-passenger says bus was full
A co-passenger in the bus in which a 13-year-old girl who was molested and thrown out of a moving bus in Moga district has said that the bus was almost full when the incident took place.
Updated on May 05, 2015 10:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Moga
Depite farmers' woes, Punjab has no crop insurance scheme
Even as Punjab farmers face grave crop losses this rabi season following inclement weather, the state has no crop insurance scheme in place to help those affected to tide over the monetary loss due to the shortfall in yield or crop damage.
Updated on Apr 30, 2015 06:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab keeps waiting for public libraries Act
Punjab is still without a public libraries Act that has been implemented in 20 other states for a single, unified system of control and organisation of these sources of information.
Updated on Apr 23, 2015 10:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Dhuri bypoll: Landmark in SAD’s journey towards 2017
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal is a relieved man today. His party no longer depends on the BJP to remain in power in Punjab, the SAD having mustered the magic number of 59 seats in the 117-strong assembly with the entry of another SAD MLA though the Dhuri bypoll.
Updated on Apr 16, 2015 10:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
ED attaches Rs 100-crore properties owned by Bhola, Aulakh and families
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth at least Rs 100 crore owned by drug lord Jagdish Bhola and his alleged accomplice Maninder Singh alias Bittu Aulakh and their families in Punjab.
Updated on Apr 04, 2015 08:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Junior hearing appeals against director’s orders
In violation of the Panchayati Raj Act, the Punjab government has appointed a junior officer as the appellant authority of another bureaucrat and no one seems to want to undo the anomaly. Punjab’s 2006-batch IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer Gurdev Singh Ghumman, who is joint development commissioner in the department of rural development and panchayats, has been granted the powers to hear appeals against the orders of department director Siban C, a 2005-batch IAS officer.
Updated on Apr 01, 2015 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Fast and dubious: Fastway continues to court controversy
The suicide by Amritsar-based cable operator Jaswinder Singh Jassi, allegedly following harassment at the hands of officials of Fastway Transmission Private Limited, has brought to the fore the company’s virtual monopoly over the television cable business in Punjab.
Updated on Mar 31, 2015 03:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
To widen victory, SAD-BJP banking on Independents
A day after poll results of the municipal councils and nagar panchayats were announced, the ruling SAD-BJP alliance on Thursday appeared to be going all out to achieve power combinations with Independents in over 30 towns of Punjab where it is short of a majority.
Updated on Feb 27, 2015 01:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Walkover for SAD in two nagar panchayats
The ruling alliance, despite its internal differences, is registering early victories in the upcoming civic polls with SAD-BJP candidates getting a walkover at many places.
Updated on Feb 17, 2015 12:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Seats divide Shiromani Akali Dal, Bharatiya Janata Party ; rift shows
It’s testing times for the Akali-BJP alliance in Punjab. The civic elections have opened a rift between the allies at several places.
Updated on Feb 15, 2015 03:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab civic polls 2015: Leaders see launch pad for kin
Several former Punjab BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) leaders are eyeing the coming municipal elections to launch close relatives in politics and continue their legacies. At Pathankot, former BJP minister Master Mohan Lal has his nephew, Narinder Kala (46) in the fray for a corporation seat.
Updated on Feb 14, 2015 02:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
facetoface: Subramanian Swamy, BJP leader
There is not a dull moment in the company of Subramanian Swamy. Admitting that he was not made the finance minister because of his “earnestness” over the black money issue, the BJP leader is, however, hopeful that PM Narendra Modi will one day keep his promise.
Updated on Feb 08, 2015 05:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab splurges even as Haryana rates way cheaper for same work
While states agencies in Punjab have been overpaying enormously for loading, cartage and transportation during procurement of grains, neighbouring Haryana is getting the same work done at exponentially less cost.
Updated on Feb 03, 2015 10:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab procurement scam: Overpayment for mandi labour, cartage too
Punjab’s procurement agencies are not only overpaying truck unions for transportation of grains, but also indulging labour unions in the mandis, paying them rates much higher than the prevalent prices.
Updated on Feb 02, 2015 09:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Crores gobbled in grain transport scam
In a major scam unearthed by the Punjab government, various grain procurement agencies of the state have been paying enormously high rates of transportation to the truck unions leading to a loss of Rs 1,000 - Rs 1,500 crore per year to the exchequer.
Updated on Feb 01, 2015 08:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab government fails to upload property returns of PCS officers
The Punjab government has failed to upload the immovable property returns (IPRs) filed by the Punjab Civil Services (PCS) officers to a public domain. These returns of the last financial year, ending March 31, 2014, were submitted by most PCS officers to the department of personnel around six months ago.
Updated on Jan 29, 2015 04:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
ED probing Ludhiana City Centre scam too, Capt Amarinder says it can’t
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated a probe into the multi-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam, investigated by the Punjab vigilance bureau. Congress MP and former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, his son Raninder Singh, and son-in-law Raminder Singh are among the accused in the scam that allegedly took place during the 2002-07 tenure of Amarinder as CM.
Updated on Jan 28, 2015 04:36 PM IST
None | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Rivals gun down gangster in Phagwara; dance as helpless cops watch
Notorious gangster Sukhbir Singh Kahlwan, alias Sukha Kahlon, was gunned down by at least 15 unidentified assailants — who even filmed the act and danced around the body in front of the policemen — in Phagwara on Wednesday when six cops were taking him back to the Nabha jail in a jeep after a court hearing in Jalandhar.
Updated on Jan 22, 2015 06:06 PM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Chitleen K Sethi Jatinder Kohli and Parampreet Singh Narula, Phagwara
HT profile: From true-blue Akali to thorn in SAD flesh
It’s not often that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) removes its jathedars from the sewa of a takht. Playing victim of politics now, Balwant Singh Nandgarh, former jathedar of Takht Damdama Sahib, was among the high priests of the five Sikh Takhts who attained the highest chair via the political route.
Updated on Jan 18, 2015 01:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kamaldeep Singh Brar and Chitleen K Sethi, Bathinda
Sikh prisoners: Aged convicts not on CM's list
Among those lodged in Punjab jails are more than half a dozen senior citizens (above 70) who have many years to go before release. However, none of these finds a mention on chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s list of prisoners whose release he has sought.
Updated on Jan 10, 2015 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Six of 13 men on Punjab CM Badal's list are TADA convicts
Among the list of Sikh prisoners whose release is being demanded are at least 20 of them booked under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985, commonly known as TADA. TADA was the first anti-terrorism act in force in the country between 1985 and 1995.
Updated on Jan 09, 2015 04:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh