Kanchan Vasdev

He called out the BJP's silence on such anti-Punjab actions, sarcastically suggesting they might consider changing the national anthem's wording if they had the chance.

While two Bills including Transfer of Property (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2023, and Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2023, deal with transfer of property through GPA, the Registration (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2023, deals with levying of registration fee on home and vehicular loans. The Bill makes it mandatory for the borrower to get the loan registered.

While the Mandi Board made use of the software bought from a private company, the local bodies department of the state also used it for its municipal roads in the major cities such as Ludhiana.

Mann, in his DO letter, had submitted that the “five Bills which were passed by the Punjab Vidhan Sabha are pending at your end for your assent.

Punjab top the list of states in cases pertaining to possession of drugs for trafficking with 7,433, up from 5,766 in 2021. It was followed by Uttar Pradesh (4,920), Tamil Nadu (2,590), Rajasthan (2,428) and Madhya Pradesh (2,169).

Spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang says the AAP would have fared much better if INDIA parties had contested the polls as a bloc.

One of the Bills concerns removing the Governor as the chancellor of universities in the state

The meeting was reminiscent of a similar meeting that the CM chaired on December 23 last year, when he had got upset with the secretaries for not utilising Rs 3,500 crore.

Punjab Medium Liquor (PML) remains an all time favourite of Punjabi tipplers who, records accessed by The Indian Express showed, consumed 20 crore bottles of the same in the 2022-23 fiscal.

Punjab Medium Liquor (PML) remains an all time favourite of Punjabi tipplers who, records accessed by The Indian Express showed, consumed 20 crore bottles of the same in the 2022-23 fiscal.