Hundreds of farmers under the banner of the Bharti Kisan Union-Ekta-Ugrahan and the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, who were staging a sit-in protest in Chandigarh for six days, called off their protest on Friday after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann assured to fulfil their demands by September 30.

Mann assured them that the government is mulling introducing a scheme to wave off farm loans, besides safeguarding their interests with the new agriculture policy being framed.

Bharti Kisan Union-Ugrahan President Joginder Singh Ugrahan told the media here that they had urged the government to draft the agriculture policy.

Taking the issue of security in PGI seriously, a task force has been constituted after the orders of the Supreme Court. According to the PGI administration, five sub-committees will work under this task force.

Each committee includes doctors, paramedical staff, technical staff, nursing officers and office bearers of various employee unions of the organization. This committee will suggest to the PGI administration to strengthen the security arrangements and will also review from time to time.

The campaigning for the Punjab University Student Council elections has ended. Voting will be held on September 5. The candidates campaigned in North and South campuses of PU and appealed for votes in their favour. Candidates canvassed classrooms during the day to solicit votes from students and held rallies outside departments for campaigning. The student wing rallied in chemistry, geography and other nearby departments and candidates showed strength in UIET.

The police of Chandigarh's Sector-31 police station have arrested a young man on the charge of raping a minor girl. In this case, a case has been registered under the sections of POCSO Act and rape. The accused has been identified as Rahul, who works in Industrial Area Phase-II Chandigarh.

The incident took place when the minor girl went to Rahul's office to hang out with her friend and the young man. It is being told that on July 29, the victim girl met her friend and Raj Kumar alias Raj near the Shiva temple in Hallomajra. The trio decided to stay out and hang out all night. Rajkumar took her to his friend Rahul's office in Industrial Area Phase-II. At night, everyone had dinner at Rahul's office, after which the victim's friend went downstairs to sleep, while the victim stayed there.

Jamhoori Adhikar Sabha, a unit of Punjab, Chandigarh-Mohali protested against the raids conducted by the NIA on the premises of democratic activists, lawyers and farmers activists in Punjab, Haryana, UP and Delhi yesterday by protesting in Sector 17. Students, youth, farmers, leaders of democratic organizations including ordinary citizens, employees and intellectuals of the city participated in the demonstration.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, former Union Minister and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja said that Congress will fight strongly on all 90 seats and will fight to win every seat. BJP is nervous about the elections, so it postponed the date of voting. Changing the date will not change the results. Whatever the public has decided will happen to it. She said that only one person will get the ticket, everyone will work together for his victory.

During the hearing of the petition filed in the Punjab Haryana High Court regarding Kangana Ranaut's film Emergency, the Censor Board has clarified that the certificate has not yet been issued to this film. Only 6 days are left for the release of the film. A petition was filed against the film Emergency on behalf of advocate Iman Singh Khara, which was heard in the High Court. Advocate Iman Singh Khara says that the Censor Board has filed its reply in the court, in which they have clarified that the release certificate for this film has not been issued yet. He said that there are a lot of complaints regarding the film and the film will be given a certificate only after the complaints are heard.

Senior leader of Shiromani Akali Dal Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema said that whatever order has been given today from Sri Akal Takht Sahib, Shiromani Akali Dal accepts that order. On the day when Sukhbir Singh Badal came to clarify as the president, he also made it clear on that day that whatever order comes to the Shiromani Akali Dal from Sri Akal Takht Sahib, we will accept it. Because of this, the order that has come to Sukhbir Singh Badal today or to the Cabinet Ministers of that time, we accept it with our heads bowed. In the same way as the order has come from Sri Akal Takht Sahib, we will bow down to Sri Akal Takht Sahib and give our explanation.

Prince Chaudhary, candidate of Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) student wing Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS), filed nomination for the post of president on Thursday for the Punjab University student council elections.

Many student leaders of CYSS and hundreds of students associated with the organization were present during the nomination. Prince Chaudhary is a student of the law department of Punjab University, studying LLM.

CYSS also expanded its organization in view of the student union elections.  Amritpal Singh Dhillon has been appointed as President, Rajat Kamboj as Chairman, Aryan Kamboj as Party President, Dipanshu as Party Chairman, Hritwiz Choubey as Vice President, Vishal as Vice Chairman, Udayvir Dhaliwal as All College President, Vatanveer Singh as Working President, Prabhnoor as Party Incharge and Kanwalpreet Judge as Chief Patron.

The General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee, former Union Minister, and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja said that the BJP government in the state is claiming that it has fulfilled the promises made during its ten-year tenure, but the reality is that for ten years, it ruled by making false declarations and misleading the public. Now, when it appears that the government is on its way out, it is being said that every promise has been fulfilled. The BJP government, both at the state and central levels, has only one job: to create discord among people, lie to rule, and enjoy the benefits. During the tenure of this state government, several major scandals took place, but no investigations were conducted, and wherever there were investigations, those investigations were investigated, with no action taken against the culprits.