Hindustan Times Punjab - January 24, 2025
Hindustan Times Punjab - January 24, 2025
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In this issue
January 24, 2025
Foreign Secy Set To Visit Beijing Amid Thaw In Ties
High-profile tour
1 min
Mann To Now Hoist Tricolour In Patiala
In a last-minute change of venue, chief minister Bhagwant Mann will now unfurl the national flag on Republic Day in Patiala instead of Faridkot.
1 min
SAD delegation seeks review of voters' list
A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday met gurdwara elections chief commissioner justice (retd) SS Saron, requesting him to extend the process for registration of voters for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections to March 31 to weed out all the ‘bogus votes’.
1 min
2 Drones Recovered From Near Border in Amritsar, Fazilka
The Border Security Force (BSF) has recovered two drones in separate incidents from the border area of Amritsar and Fazilka district of Punjab.
1 min
Punjab's GST mop-up surged in 3rd quarter after poor first half
After a sluggish first half, the goods and services tax (GST) collection in Punjab surged in the third quarter of the financial year 2024-25 to attain the year-on-year growth target of 12% set in the state budget.
1 min
Govt School Teacher Held For Running Fake Visa Racket
The Delhi Police have arrested a government school teacher from Kapurthala for allegedly running a fake visa racket.
1 min
Minor Among Five Held For Petrol Pump Robberies
Five robbers, including a minor, have been arrested for targeting petrol stations in Jalandhar and Adampur.
1 min
Gharial may have swept downstream from Harike: Experts
A week after a gharial was rescued from an irrigation canal near Dhaula village in Muktsar, wildlife experts have concluded that the reptile might have swept downstream from Harike Wetland.
1 min
SAD delegation seeks review of voters' list
A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday met gurdwara elections chief commissioner Justice (retd) SS Saron, requesting him to extend the process for registration of voters for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections to March 31 to weed out all the 'bogus votes'.
3 mins
Mann to Now Hoist Tricolour in Patiala
Earlier, the venue of the CM's function was Faridkot, administrative reasons cited for shift in venue
2 mins
Two Cattle Smugglers Arrested in Nuh
Police said they have arrested two cattle smugglers after chasing them for about 5 km in Nuh district on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway.
1 min
Haryana Ex-Min Dalal Seeks White Paper on Graft Cases
Chandigarh:
1 min
Cops Rule Out Murder, Say Manu Bhaker's Grandma, Uncle Died in Mishap
A day after Olympic medallist and international shooter Manu Bhaker's mother Sumedha Bhaker raised suspicion that her mother and brother's death in the road mishap four days ago could be a planned one, Dadri superintendent of police (SP) Arsh Verma on Thursday said that there was negligence on the part of the car driver, who was driving at high speed.
1 min
2 Cops Suffer Burn Injuries During Drug Disposal
Two police officers from Khanna, Punjab, who had travelled to Amritsar to dispose of narcotics suffered serious burn injuries when the fire meant to burn the drugs became out of control.
1 min
Mohali Cop Held for Murdering Girlfriend
Parents of Victim, Hailing from HP, Allege Accused Pushed Her into Bhakra Canal in Rupnagar District
1 min
Man Dies After Being Hit By Speeding Jeep In Sangrur
An accident claimed the life of 29-year-old Sahil Kumar, a resident of Guru Nanak Nagar, Dhuri, after he was hit by a speeding Bolero on January 21, 2025.
1 min
Bathinda lawyer shot at
An advocate Yashpinder Pal Singh was shot at by two unidentified persons in Bathinda on Thursday afternoon.
1 min
Amritpal Moves HC for Nod to Attend Parliament Session
Khadoor Sahib MP Says He Runs Risk of Disqualification
1 min
HC Restrains Haryana Govt From Taking Over Samalkha Temple
The Punjab and Haryana high court has restrained the Haryana government from taking control of the management of Prachin Shri Shyam Baba Mandir in Samalkha in Panipat district.
1 min
Sangrur's historical Banasar Bagh a picture of neglect
Banasar Bagh, a historically significant landmark in Sangrur, stands as a testament to the region's rich heritage.
2 mins
Haryana Expands Divyang Pension Scheme, Adds 10 More Categories
32,000 additional persons with disabilities will now be eligible to receive monthly pension benefits
3 mins
Ex-CAG officer flags ‘restrictive’ provision of RTE, writes to Mann
The Punjab government has faced flak for its failure to ensure 25% admissions for economically weaker and disadvantaged children in unaided private schools under the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009.
1 min
AAP Favouring Liquor From Punjab in Delhi Vends: BJP, Congress
The BJP said that Delhi's people are deprived of premium whiskey brands and are forced to go to Noida, Gurugram to buy them
1 min
Cong Shares Audio Clip On 'AAP's Link To Liquor Scam'
The Congress on Thursday shared an audio clip which, it alleged, purportedly reveals \"senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders\" discussing monetary gains from liquor companies.
1 min
Delhi wants Sheila Dikshit's development model: Rahul
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday criticised what he alleged was the \"false propaganda\" of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), stating that the people of Delhi want his party's \"real development model\", which was witnessed during the 15-year tenure of former chief minister, the late Sheila Dikshit.
1 min
Punjab Lifts Security Detail for Kejriwal After Slugfest
The Punjab Police on Thursday said it withdrew a component of security deployed by it as part of the Z+ detail guarding former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, after questions from the Delhi Police and instructions from the Election Commission.
3 mins
Elect Leaders Who Will Go To Assembly To Solve Problems: Punjab CM Mann
Punjab chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) star campaigner Bhagwant Mann on Thursday took on a different tack, by seeking to highlight the accomplishments and promises of the party for the city, instead of engaging in mud-slinging with other parties or their candidates.
1 min
Oppn hits out at Farooq over Article 370 remarks
A political row erupted on Thursday over National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah's claims that Article 370 was formulated to protect the Dogras in Jammu and not Kashmiris.
2 mins
Delhi court seeks NIA stand on J&K MLA Rashid's bail petition
The Delhi high court on Thursday issued notice on a plea by Engineer Rashid, a member of Parliament from Jammu & Kashmir seeking directions to the city court to pronounce orders on his bail application in a terror-funding case.
1 min
Husain Artwork Row: No FIR Against Gallery
A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) against the CEO and MD of DAG, formerly known as Delhi Art Gallery, over the display of two allegedly \"obscene\" artworks by acclaimed artist MF Husain at an exhibition last year.
1 min
Basking in the warmth of winter paradise
Going for vacation to a cold place in winter isn't really my cup of tea. But, on the insistence of my friends, my wife and I relented to become a part of the group of friends headed to Kazakhstan in December.
2 mins
Rajouri deaths: 300 villagers quarantined in 3 govt facilities
46 kin of affected families under special observation; another girl with symptoms of similar illness hospitalised in GMC
2 mins
Netaji's legacy an inspiration for achieving Viksit Bharat, says PM Modi
Unity among people is as significant in pursuit of \"Viksit Bharat\" (developed India) today, as it was during the fight for \"Swaraj\" (self-rule) during the freedom struggle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as he cautioned people to stay vigilant against those seeking to weaken the country and break its unity.
1 min
Man kills two minor cousins, attacks their parents in UP
Police said initial probe suggests that the attack stemmed from a property dispute
1 min
Pak ISI's Visit to Dhaka Signals Sudden Shift in Military Ties
A delegation from Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), including a two-star general, quietly flew into Bangladesh on Tuesday, marking a sudden upgrading of military-to-military engagements between Dhaka and Islamabad that is unlikely to go down well in New Delhi.
1 min
Can't defy order: SC raps Registry over case deletion
The Supreme Court has placed its own Registry under scrutiny, directing it to explain why cases are being unilaterally deleted from the cause list without informing the judges beforehand.
2 mins
NCLAT stays CCI's 5-yr ban on WhatsApp user data sharing with Meta
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday stayed part of a November 2024 order of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with other Meta platforms for advertising purposes for five years.
1 min
BSF, BGB Officials Meet Over Skirmish Near Bengal Border
Border guards from India and Bangladesh will ensure that residents along the international border in the Malda-Rajshahi sector will not engage in violence again, and both forces will track social media to ensure fake narratives are not peddled to instigate violence.
2 mins
56 Held For Rape Of Kerala Dalit Athlete, Vijayan Tells Assembly
The special investigation team of the Kerala Police has arrested 56 of 59 accused in the case of alleged rape of an 18-year-old Dalit athlete in the Pathanamthitta district, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the assembly on Thursday.
1 min
Man says he killed wife, cut, boiled body; cops scour Hyd
Nearly a week after a 35-year-old woman went missing in Hyderabad, her husband, an ex-serviceman, has claimed that he killed her, dismembered her body, boiled the parts and disposed them of in a lake at Jillelaguda on the city outskirts, police said on Thursday, adding they are to confirm the claims as no body parts have been recovered yet.
2 mins
Sidda Gets Lokayukta Clean Chit in Land Case
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and his family have been cleared of wrongdoing in the ongoing investigation into the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) land case by the Lokayukta, three people familiar with the matter said.
2 mins
UGC opens new front in federalism battle
The draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025 has become a new flashpoint in Centre-state relations.
1 min
Spare the H-1B visa programme
America's labour worries are structural, and have very little to do with immigrants
2 mins
Why India badly needs a trauma care ministry
As we head into India's annual Budget exercise, I have a suggestion for finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Even as she balances priorities and determines who gets how much out of the growing pie of tax money, can a new ministry (or department) for trauma care be considered?
3 mins
The Health Leadership Opportunity for India
The public health ecosystem in the country will benefit if New Delhi ups its engagement with WHO in light of the US withdrawing from the global body
3 mins
Scientific Temper, Social Benefit the Only Holy Cows
Can there be \"public science of cow sacrality\"? Veezhinathan Kamakoti, the director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, recently attempted this when he advocated cow worship based on some scientific research and considerable religious passion.
3 mins
Closure of several FIITJEE centres leaves students in lurch
THE COACHING CENTRES WERE SHUT IN MEERUT, GHAZIABAD, LUCKNOW, VARANASI, BHOPAL, PATNA, DELHI AND NOIDA
2 mins
Writer Suryabala to be awarded Vyas Samman on Jan 28
Noted Hindi writer Suryabala will be presented the 34th Vyas Samman, 2024, for her novel \"Kaun Des Ko Vasi: Venu Ki Diary\", on January 28, the KK Birla Foundation said in an official statement on Thursday.
1 min
On Balasaheb Birth Anniv, Both Parties Fight For Legacy
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that his party may go solo for the upcoming local body polls in Maharashtra and made a veiled attack at rival faction leader Eknath Shinde who later suggested that the former cannot win elections by \"sitting at home and asking others to fight from the ground\".
1 min
Stalin: Advent of Iron Age from Tamil soil
The Iron Age began on Tamil soil, chief minister MK Stalin said on Thursday, offering test reports from top institutions and testimony from experts as proof to bolster a narrative that centres on the supremacy of an ancient Dravidian civilisation.
4 mins
Are young people sadder, angrier? New study blames smartphones
YOUNGER THE AGE AT WHICH ONE GETS SMARTPHONE, THE POORER THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, THE STUDY SAID
2 mins
Inquiry Begins to Find Trigger for Freak Jalgaon Train Tragedy
A curve on the tracks was likely one of the main factors behind the freak Jalgaon train incident, as it obstructed the line of sight of one of the drivers and limited the time he had to apply emergency brakes, officials aware of the matter said on Thursday as authorities began investigating the trigger for the incident.
2 mins
At 122 seats, JD(U) eyes larger share in Bihar alliance
Reaching an amicable seat-sharing formula has become the biggest challenge for the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar, where assembly polls are due later this year, especially with the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not coming to an agreement to contest 100 seats each, people familiar with the matter said.
2 mins
India Prepares for Tricky Trade Dance With Trump
The Indian government is preparing a new blueprint to address key issues in imports of American apples, oil, electric vehicles, satellite communications, among others, as it gears up for trade talks with the US.
1 min
Judge in US blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order
A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it \"blatantly unconstitutional\".
1 min
CCPA Issues Notices to Ola, Uber on Differential Pricing
The Notices to the Ride-Hailing Platforms Came After Consumer Complaints and Viral Social Media Posts
1 min
India eyes US energy to reduce trade deficit
The Trump administration's decision to ramp up American energy output will soften international oil prices, create an alternative import source for India, and also help New Delhi to address Washington's concern regarding the rising trade deficit, three people aware of the development said.
1 min
Trump tells Davos: Make your products in the US or pay tariffs
President Donald Trump used an address on Thursday to the World Economic Forum to promise global elites lower taxes if they bring manufacturing to the US and threatened to impose tariffs if they don't.
2 mins
Trump: Want to meet Putin soon to ensure end of Ukraine war
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin soon to secure an end to the almost three-year-old war with Ukraine, lamenting what he called the huge loss of life.
1 min
Keys upsets Swiatek to swing into final, takes on No. 1 Sabalenka next
There were moments in what would turn out to be an epic Australian Open women's singles semi-final when Madison Keys could well have toyed with the idea of abandoning her swinging ways and adopting a safety-first approach against a resolute Iga Swiatek.
3 mins
PSG Comeback Floors Man City
Paris Saint-Germain pushed Manchester City to the brink of Champions League elimination after coming from two goals down to win 4-2 on Wednesday while Arsenal all but secured their place in the last 16.
1 min
Bleak returns for India's star players on domestic circuit
Ranji Trophy: Top stars flop India's stars faltered on their return to domestic cricket after being told to play in home competitions
3 mins
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