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Parampreet Singh Narula

Parampreet Singh Narula is a staff correspondent with the Jalandhar bureau at Hindustan Times. He covers political, rural and agriculture issues in Punjab.

Articles by Parampreet Singh Narula

Want to see my husband’s face one last time, says wife of man killed in Iraq

His mother says they had sent him to Iraq after taking a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh, which is yet to be repaid.

Surjit’s widow, Usha (centre), was inconsolable and broke into tears several times following confirmation by Sushma Swaraj that his husband had been killed in Iraq.(Pardeep Pandit/HT)

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Updated on Mar 21, 2018 05:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar/Hoshiarpur | ByParampreet Singh Narula and Harpreet Kaur

Punjab CM announces ₹113 crore grant for poll-bound Shahkot

Govt starts second phase of farm debt waiver scheme from Nakodar; 30,000 farmers to be given certificates of ₹162 crore.

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Updated on Mar 14, 2018 09:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Nakodar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Nakodar

Popularity test? Amid SAD’s ‘pol khol’ drive, BJP to hold separate rally

A senior leader in the party said that the BJP is preparing the ground to unite workers and supporters for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to be held in 2019.

The BJP’s rally, “Bajao Dhol, Kholo Pol”, an initiative of Union minister Vijay Sampla, to be held in Jalandhar on March 18, is also aimed at exposing the Congress rule in one year.(HT File)

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Updated on Mar 13, 2018 01:44 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula

Punjab CM has no control over officers, says Sukhbir Badal on illegal sand mining issue

On the upcoming budget session, Sukhbir Badal said the Congress government will present more false documents, which will remain unimplemented like the last year’s budget.

Former deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and Union minister Vijay Sampla at ‘Pol Khol’ rally near Hoshiarpur on Friday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 10, 2018 11:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Hoshiarpur | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Hoshiarpur

Illegal sand mining: 6 contractors booked; Punjab CM Capt Amarinder to meet DCs, SSPs of 14 districts

HT has accessed a copy of the FIR that states that during the raid, police found that sand was being extracted from areas that were not even allotted to contractors.

Twenty people, mostly drivers, were present at the sites when a district administration team raided and seized the machinery on Tuesday have also been arrested.(Twitter)

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Updated on Mar 08, 2018 10:15 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Nawanshahr | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Nawanshahr

Illegal welcome hoardings dot national highway in Punjab

The hoardings, bearing photos of newly elected mayor Jagdish Raja, Congress MLAs and other leaders along with a photo of Captain and a welcome message for him, have been put up along the Jalandhar PAP-Kartarpur stretch.

Hoardings of Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Amristar-Jalandhar national highway near Kartarpur on Tuesday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 07, 2018 03:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

Illegal sand mining: Administration wakes up to Punjab CM Amarinder’s tweet; seizes machinery, detains 23

Amarinder tweeted pictures of JCB machines along the river, adding that he had ordered a probe and had asked DCs and SSPs concerned to “seize” the equipment.

“Responsibility will be fixed,” the tweet said.(Capt Amarinder’s Twitter handle.)

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Updated on Mar 06, 2018 11:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Chandigarh

Kapurthala maid caught thrashing toddler: Child rights panel pulls up police for not adding Juvenile Act in FIR

Summons Kapurthala (city) SHO; asks SSP to add relevant sections of the Act to the case

A video grab showing the maid with a wooden stick.

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Updated on Feb 27, 2018 11:17 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Kapurthala | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Kapurthala

Sukhbir Badal invites people to ‘gherao’ Punjab assembly on first day of budget session

Terming local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu as the white elephant in the Congress government, he said Sidhu, who is earning Rs 6-7 crore by laughing on the TV cannot run the state.

Former deputy CM and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal addressing ‘Pol Khol Rally ‘ in Saila Khurad village on Thursday.(Pardeep Pandit/HT)

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Updated on Feb 16, 2018 02:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Garhshankar | ByParampreet Singh Narula

Clerical mistake: Finally, Jalandhar primary teachers get one-month salary

Ganesh Bhagat, general secretary of the Government Teachers Union, Punjab, said they have received one-month salary but demanded early release of the pending salary for two more months.

Around 2,300 teachers had not been getting salary since November last year.(HT File/Representative image)

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Updated on Feb 12, 2018 04:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

After DC’s rap, Jalandhar power plant shuts its unit temporarily

Black ash emission: Authorities say they have called in engineers to clean electrostatic precipitator which may have caused the propulsion of pollutants.

The residents have been facing breathing problems and irritation in eyes due to emission of pollutants.(HT File)

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Updated on Feb 07, 2018 02:20 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Nawanshahr | ByParampreet Singh Narula

Jagdish Raja is new Jalandhar mayor

Surinder Kaur, a four-time councillor was elected as senior deputy mayor and two-time councillor Harsimranjit Singh Bunty, an urban Sikh face, was chosen as deputy mayor.

MC commissioner Basant Garg welcoming newly elected mayor Jagdish Raja at the MC office in Jalandhar on Thursday.(Pardeep Pandit/HT)

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Updated on Jan 25, 2018 02:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula & Harvinder Kaur, Jalandhar

Price crash: Punjab to export potato to Russia and Middle East

Price crash: Punjab Agro Industries Corporation to be assisting agency; glut in production due to accumulated surplus crops of past seasons had farmers worried

Against a production cost of around Rs 5 per kg, potato is selling at Rs 2 per kg in the wholesale market. Doaba has 93% of the state’s sown area of the crop.(HT File)

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Updated on Jan 20, 2018 09:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula

CCTV footage ‘missing’ in Jalandhar school student’s suicide bid

School management appears before the state commission for protection of child rights, but does not provide CCTV footage, claiming that it is with the police; the department also claims not to have it

SCPCR chairman Sukesh Kalia said, “Claiming that they had handed over the footage to the police, the representatives of the school did not provide the footage to us.(HT File)

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Updated on Jan 19, 2018 04:08 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

FEMA violations: Rana Gurjit’s son grilled by ED

SEBI, RBI flagged ED about the alleged foreign exchange violations by his company

Inder Partap Singh, son of Rana Gurjit Singh, at the ED office in Jalandhar on Wednesday.(Pardeep Pandit/HT)

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Updated on Jan 18, 2018 09:50 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

Clerical mistake halts salary of govt primary teachers in Jalandhar

A DEO official claimed they sent at least 7 letters to DPI, of which six were with correct figure of Rs 60 crore while just one letter mentioned the amount as Rs 60 lakh.

Only salary of the Jalandhar district’s government primary teachers had cost the government Rs 15-16 crore per month and the department was left with only Rs 9.53 crore after disbursing October’s salary.(HT File/Representative image)

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Updated on Jan 17, 2018 12:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

‘Felling to restart’: Work on Doaba four-laning projects set to gather pace

Due to a ban on the felling imposed by the NGT in June last year, construction on both the projects was all but stopped.

While the 80.8-km stretch Phagwara-Rupnagar is being widened by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the 39.4-km Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur project is with the public works department(Pardeep Pandit/HT)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2018 10:06 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

Staring at glut, potato growers in Punjab seek MSP, lifting of export ban

Besides demanding a policy on the lines of Haryana to counter the farm distress, the farmers here are also demanding lifting of the International ban on potatoes.

Doaba farmers, who supply potato across the country, are dumping their old produce on the roads in the absence of buyers.(HT File)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2018 10:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Jalandhar

Eight of 10 accused in PTU fraud have RSS-BJP links

Geetika Sood, daughter of the former minister and BJP leader Tikshan Sood, who was appointed as the legal officer, is among the 10 persons booked in the case.

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Updated on Jan 10, 2018 11:38 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByParampreet Singh Narula

No funds from govt, NRI aid helps equip Moga school with pre-primary wing

The NRIs’ lead has meant that the pre-primary wing has 34 toddlers donning shining uniforms with tie and belt like in private schools in an ambience that has colourful artwork and an LED TV to help them imbibe the basics.

The pre-primary wing of Government Primary School in Sosan village in Moga.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 25, 2017 11:02 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

ISI terror module: Fourth accused identified, names Khalistan Liberation Force chief Mintoo

ISI terror module: Mintoo brought on production warrants from Nabha jail and quizzed with 4 accused in Moga

Director general of police Suresh Arora (right) with SSP Raj Jit Singh in Moga on Wednesday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Nov 09, 2017 11:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

After misuse, NHM to review incentives given to docs for night C-section deliveries in Punjab

Hindustan Times, in its series of reports highlighted that how doctors here have been making fast bucks by manipulating timings to perform the C-section delivery at night.

A whopping 70% of C-section deliveries at the Moga civil hospital for two months from August 1 to September 30 were done at night.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Oct 30, 2017 10:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

Punjab launches OPD for rehabilitating drug addicts

The project is similar to the programme started by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to rehabilitate the injectable drug users

Punjab health minister Brahm Mohindra inaugurating the project at government rehabilitation centre in Moga on Thursday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Oct 26, 2017 08:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula

800 Punjab govt primary schools with less than 20 students to close from Oct 25

The state government has issued a notification on October 18, directing district education officers of the state to merge schools with less than 20 students to other schools nearby

A government primary school in Ludhiana.(HT File)

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Updated on Oct 22, 2017 09:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

GNDU professor kidnap: Murky tale of marriage plan, break-up, and why Sukhpreet met Garry again

On September 11, Sukhpreet left a note in her hostel room at GNDU that she was going to meet Garry, who was coming to “return the money he had borrowed” from her. But she never reached her village after that.

A file photo of Sukhpreet Kaur(HT Photo)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2017 08:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula

Primary health centre head in Punjab’s Moga appointed without advertising post

Under the National Health Mission (NHM) rules, to appoint a medical officer at the UPHC, an ad needs to be given in newspapers. The post at a Moga village was not advertised, nor were any applications invited.

Under the NHM rules, to appoint a medical officer at the UPHC, an ad needs to be given in newspapers. A notice also needs to be put up on the premises of the civil hospital and other public places for an interview.(Representative image)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2017 03:54 PM IST

HindustanTimes, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

Traffic challans in Moga held up with no clarity on dealing officer

Since the DTO post was abolished on August 17, there is no clarity on who can clear challans; state-level meeting to decide on the issue.

This is causing considerable difficulty to people visiting SDM offices to pay fine and get their documents cleared.(Representative image)

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Updated on Sep 07, 2017 01:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

Cops thrashed in Moga village, captured PO flees from custody

The incident happened at the infamous Daulewala village.

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Updated on Sep 03, 2017 02:43 PM IST

Hindutstan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula

Moga BDPO, panchayat secy suspended for embezzling Rs 58.55 lakh

This scam was committed when the model code of conduct was in force.

Jaspreet singh, suspended BDPO (Moga-1)(HT Photo)

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Published on Aug 19, 2017 10:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula, Moga

HT Impact | Three teachers deputed to Moga school with lone teacher

Till Sunday (August 13), the day HT highlighted the plight of the school, Navpreet Kumar, a teacher on contract, had been taking classes of nine subjects of 67 students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 alone for five years.

Navpreet Kumar, the teacher at the school, when told about the deputation of three teachers, was happy and relieved and said he would work even harder now.(Parampreet Singh Narula/HT)

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Updated on Aug 14, 2017 09:03 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByParampreet Singh Narula

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Parampreet Singh Narula

Parampreet Singh Narula is a staff correspondent with the Jalandhar bureau at Hindustan Times. He covers political, rural and agriculture issues in Punjab.

His mother says they had sent him to Iraq after taking a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh, which is yet to be repaid.

Govt starts second phase of farm debt waiver scheme from Nakodar; 30,000 farmers to be given certificates of ₹162 crore.

A senior leader in the party said that the BJP is preparing the ground to unite workers and supporters for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to be held in 2019.

On the upcoming budget session, Sukhbir Badal said the Congress government will present more false documents, which will remain unimplemented like the last year’s budget.

HT has accessed a copy of the FIR that states that during the raid, police found that sand was being extracted from areas that were not even allotted to contractors.

The hoardings, bearing photos of newly elected mayor Jagdish Raja, Congress MLAs and other leaders along with a photo of Captain and a welcome message for him, have been put up along the Jalandhar PAP-Kartarpur stretch.

Amarinder tweeted pictures of JCB machines along the river, adding that he had ordered a probe and had asked DCs and SSPs concerned to “seize” the equipment.

Summons Kapurthala (city) SHO; asks SSP to add relevant sections of the Act to the case

Terming local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu as the white elephant in the Congress government, he said Sidhu, who is earning Rs 6-7 crore by laughing on the TV cannot run the state.

Ganesh Bhagat, general secretary of the Government Teachers Union, Punjab, said they have received one-month salary but demanded early release of the pending salary for two more months.

Black ash emission: Authorities say they have called in engineers to clean electrostatic precipitator which may have caused the propulsion of pollutants.

Surinder Kaur, a four-time councillor was elected as senior deputy mayor and two-time councillor Harsimranjit Singh Bunty, an urban Sikh face, was chosen as deputy mayor.

Price crash: Punjab Agro Industries Corporation to be assisting agency; glut in production due to accumulated surplus crops of past seasons had farmers worried

School management appears before the state commission for protection of child rights, but does not provide CCTV footage, claiming that it is with the police; the department also claims not to have it

SEBI, RBI flagged ED about the alleged foreign exchange violations by his company

A DEO official claimed they sent at least 7 letters to DPI, of which six were with correct figure of Rs 60 crore while just one letter mentioned the amount as Rs 60 lakh.

Due to a ban on the felling imposed by the NGT in June last year, construction on both the projects was all but stopped.

Besides demanding a policy on the lines of Haryana to counter the farm distress, the farmers here are also demanding lifting of the International ban on potatoes.

Geetika Sood, daughter of the former minister and BJP leader Tikshan Sood, who was appointed as the legal officer, is among the 10 persons booked in the case.

The NRIs’ lead has meant that the pre-primary wing has 34 toddlers donning shining uniforms with tie and belt like in private schools in an ambience that has colourful artwork and an LED TV to help them imbibe the basics.

ISI terror module: Mintoo brought on production warrants from Nabha jail and quizzed with 4 accused in Moga

Hindustan Times, in its series of reports highlighted that how doctors here have been making fast bucks by manipulating timings to perform the C-section delivery at night.

The project is similar to the programme started by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to rehabilitate the injectable drug users

The state government has issued a notification on October 18, directing district education officers of the state to merge schools with less than 20 students to other schools nearby

On September 11, Sukhpreet left a note in her hostel room at GNDU that she was going to meet Garry, who was coming to “return the money he had borrowed” from her. But she never reached her village after that.

Under the National Health Mission (NHM) rules, to appoint a medical officer at the UPHC, an ad needs to be given in newspapers. The post at a Moga village was not advertised, nor were any applications invited.

Since the DTO post was abolished on August 17, there is no clarity on who can clear challans; state-level meeting to decide on the issue.

The incident happened at the infamous Daulewala village.

This scam was committed when the model code of conduct was in force.

Till Sunday (August 13), the day HT highlighted the plight of the school, Navpreet Kumar, a teacher on contract, had been taking classes of nine subjects of 67 students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 alone for five years.

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