Punjab

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October 2024

Punjab Police recommends cancellation of FIR against Lawrence Bishnoi.

Punjab Police drops 6 charges against Lawrence Bishnoi.

FIR was lodged because Two back-to-back interviews of Lawrence Bishnoi were aired on TV in March 2023.

Notably, Amit Shah and Bhagwant Mann together had worked to nab Amritpal Singh in National Interest.

February 2025

Punjab govt makes it mandatory to teach Punjabi as main and compulsory subject in all schools, irrespective of the board.

If Punjabi is taught without being the main subject, the Class 10 certificate will be considered null and void.

State government accused the Union government and the CBSE of dropping Punjabi from the list of subjects for Class 10 board examinations.

2 board exams for class 10 The notification issued by CBSE include Rai, Urung, Tamang, Sherpa, Sanskrit, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Manipuri, Tibetat, Bhoti, Telugum Bodo, Tangkhul, Bhutia, Kashmiri, Mizo and Thai but drops Punjabi from the list of regional languages

Science, Maths, social science, Hindi and English are the main subjects of Class 10, while the regional and foreign languages are clubbed in one group and the rest of the subjects in another.

The CBSE clarified that the norms are only indicative and no subjects would be dropped.

The BJP terms the issue a ”clerical mistake”.

Minister said that Punjab will bring its own education policy and a committee of experts will be constituted soon for this purpose. Hindustan Times

For 20 months, Punjab minister headed a department that never existed Dhaliwal is the fifth senior most minister in the Punjab cabinet.