NITI Aayog’s Aspirational Blocks Programme has awarded ₹1.5 crore to the Makhu block of Ferozepur for demonstrating exemplary progress on key performance indicators. The announcement was made on December 24 through a communication from BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO of NITI Aayog, to the chief secretary of Punjab. Categorised under Zone 2-Northern India, Makhu block’s remarkable improvements across various developmental parameters earned …
Around 7 a.m. on November 24, Sarvesh Kumar Shukla woke up to discover that the blue metal gate of his humble, unplastered brick house was unlatched. In the First Information Report lodged at the Tambaur police station on November 26 against an unknown person for “kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage”, Sarvesh submitted that his daughter would …
