PATIALA: Two days after the Punjab government announced free travel to women in the government-run buses, a bus conductor landed in a fray with the family of a 23-year-old woman passenger over buying of the ticket.
The video of the clash that took place in full public view between the bus conductor and woman s family members had gone viral on Saturday. The turban of the woman s relative was also tossed.
According to the police, the fray between a bus conductor and the family of the woman passenger had taken place at around 3pm at the Old bus stand in Ropar. The police said that the passenger woman, in her twenties, boarded the bus from Patiala and reached Ropar at around 3pm where her family members had already reached. The police said that the woman passenger had exchanged heated arguments with the bus conductor over the free travel however both the parties landed in a compromise later in the evening. The bus conductors and drivers also blocked the road near bus stand for some t
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CHANDIGARH: Even as there is no end in sight to Punjab’s worsening Covid-19 situation, cases of people again contracting the infection after recovering from it have further raised the alarm in different parts of the state.
About 16 cases of reinfection 10 in the last three months have been reported in different districts, including Bathinda, Fazilka, Ludhiana and Mohali. In these cases, the recovered patients developed symptoms and were tested positive for Covid-19 and had to undergo the treatment again. No death among such patients has been reported in the state.
Samples of patients catching the infection for a second time have been sent for genome sequencing to ascertain whether they were carrying the old virus or some mutant strain.
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JALANDHAR: Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) got major relief on Wednesday evening with the Delhi high court allowing the party to use its old reserved symbol ‘bucket’ for this election, scheduled to be held on April 25.
A notification, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 2021, was issued by the director of gurdwara elections and the notification also provided a list of recognized religious parties along with the symbols allotted to them and SAD (Badal) did not figure in the list even as names of six other parties were there.
Religious party issue reached Delhi HC twice
LUDHIANA: In multiple actions, Centre GST (CGST) Commissionerate Ludhiana in its drive against anti evasion, has arrested four persons under three different cases on March 31st.
All the arrests are related with executing bogus billing and availing fraudulent input tax credit (ITC) and out of the four , one has been remanded to judicial custody till April 15th while other three have been released on bail by the department.
Giving more information, Ashutosh Baranwal, principal commissioner, CGST Ludhiana said, We have placed 4 persons under arrest, who are accused in 3 different cases. One Vishal Kumar Singla S/o Late Lakhpat Rai has been arrested on March 31st in the Happy Nagpal case where 32 bogus firms operated by Nagpal made dubious outward supplies totalling to Rs 427 crores approximately & availed fake ITC of Rs 65 crore approx. Singla along with the main accused Nagpal, was involved in issuance of fake invoices amounting to Rs 38.67 crores approximately and fraudulent pass