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AAP Unveils First Candidate List for Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Elections 2026
AAP announces its first list of candidates for the 2026 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections, emphasizing transparent governance. AAP Unveils First Candidate List for Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Elections 2026
NITTTR Chandigarh Accounts Officer Recruitment 2026
National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research, Chandigarh (NITTTR Chandigarh) has published the Recruitment 2026 notification for the post of Accounts Officer. Offline applications will be accepted till 27 November 2026. For complete details, candidates can visit nitttrchd.ac.in.
Gulab Chand Kataria, Manish Tewari, TS Shergill
The 10th edition of the Military Literature Festival was held in Chandigarh, with Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari and festival Chairman T.S. Shergill attending the event, which aims to familiarise young people with the armed forces, military history, national security and India's relations with neighbouring countries. Speaking about the objective of the festival, T.S. Shergill said the initiative was intended to reach out to the youth of Punjab and the country, instilling in them the values of nationalism, enthusiasm and a deeper understanding of the armed forces. We are doing this for the youth of Punjab and India. We want to instil in our children the qualities of the armed forces, such as nationalism and enthusiasm. And not just enthusiasm, we also want to give them knowledge, Shergill said. He said that even if 10 per cent of the young participants understood and developed an interest in the subjects discussed at the festival, it would be a signif...
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AAPs second list for Punjab polls decoded: Big reshuffle with focus on lost seats
Digital Desk | Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released its second list of 31 candidates for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, taking its total declared nominees to 71. The list signals a major internal reset as the ruling party sharpens its strategy ahead of the polls. Of the 31 seats, 21 are constituencies that AAP had lost in the 2022 Assembly elections. Party leaders appear determined to reclaim ground in these areas by fielding a mix of new faces, local influencers and proven organisational workers. The emphasis on previously lost seats underlines AAPs intent to expand its footprint beyond the strongholds it retained in the last election. In a significant reshuffle, eight sitting MLAs have been denied tickets. The most prominent among them is Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian, who has been replaced in Lambi by his nephew Randhir Singh Dhira. Other sitting legislators dropped include former ministers Laljit Singh Bhullar and Anmol Gagan Mann, along with several other MLAs. Only two sitting MLAs from the constituencies covered in this list Saravjit Kaur Manuke (Jagraon) and Amandeep Singh Goldy Musafir (Balluana) have been renominated. The party has also fielded two sitting Members of Parliament. Sangrur MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer will contest from Barnala, a seat he had earlier represented as an MLA. Hoshiarpur MP Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal has been nominated from Phagwara. Their entry into the Assembly contest reflects AAPs strategy of bringing experienced parliamentary faces into the state political battle. The standout announcement is the nomination of renowned wrestler Jaskanwar Singh Gill, popularly known as Jassa Patti, from the Patti constituency. Widely referred to as the Virat Kohli of wrestling for his dominance in traditional dangals and titles such as Rustam-e-Hind, Jassa Patti replaces sitting MLA and former minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, who is currently in jail and had announced he would not contest. The move is seen as an attempt to leverage the wrestlers strong local popularity and rural connect in Tarn Taran district. The list also features several women candidates, including Sonia Mann from Raja Sansi, Vaninder Kaur Loomba from Shutrana and others. Candidates have been distributed across Majha, Doaba and Malwa regions. With 46 seats still to be announced, the second list indicates that AAP is prioritising performance, local appeal and organisational feedback over automatic renomination of incumbents. The coming weeks will reveal how the party balances continuity with change as it prepares for a high-stakes electoral battle in Punjab.
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FCIK slams RBI Regional office over ritual reviews amid deepening MSME distress
Srinagar, Nov 11:The Federation of Chambers of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) has sharply criticised the Reserve Bank of Indias Regional Office, Jammu, for failing to deliver tangible relief to distressed MSMEs despite successive meetings, repeated assurances and longstanding credit and rehabilitation mechanisms. Reacting to the 72nd Meeting of the Empowered Committee on MSMEs for J&K and Ladakh, FCIK said routine exhortations on liberal financing, credit guarantees and revival had displaced scrutiny of actual implementation. After 72 meetings, disclose how many enterprises were rehabilitated, financing deficiencies corrected and decisions implemented. Meetings held cannot be equated with results achieved, FCIK stated. The Federation said RBIs Regional Office must ensure that local economic conditions inform national banking policy, pursue corrective action on credit bottlenecks and recommend region-specific interventions. Having witnessed industrial distress for decades, the office must explain what it recommended, what action followed and why the same unresolved issues keep returning to its agenda. FCIK asked. FCIK said enterprises, particularly in Kashmir, had lost thousands of working days to turmoil, shutdowns, restrictions and natural calamities while interest, idle wages and statutory liabilities accumulated. Working capital was consumed by unavoidable expenses, while underfinancing, delayed assistance and costly emergency borrowings in the shape of overdraft with interest up to @18% pushed viable businesses into distress. Has the Regional Office placed a comprehensive assessment of disruption-related debt before the RBI Governor? What special measures has it recommended? Enterprises cannot remain indefinitely trapped between unserviceable debt and the loss of productive assets and family properties. FCIK observed. The Federation demanded meaningful resolution of legacy stress through rehabilitation, realistic restructuring and affordable settlements reflecting borrowers repayment capacity, the causes of distress and the need to preserve viable businesses. Expressing concern over complaints that banks allowed MSME accounts to become NPAs without timely intervention under RBIs Framework for Revival and Rehabilitation, FCIK questioned the Regional Offices monitoring. The framework requires early identification of stress and corrective action. Why do entrepreneurs report that meaningful engagement begins only with a recovery notice? Where are the assessments of rectification, restructuring and viability? asked FCIK. FCIK demanded a bank-wise account of eligible enterprises identified before NPA classification, considered for corrective action, restructured, revived or referred for recovery, with reasons for rejecting rehabilitation. What action has the Regional Office secured where banks bypassed these safeguards? Protection confined to paper offers no protection at all. FCIK observed. The Federation said NPA classification was often followed by SARFAESI notices and e-auction announcements while rehabilitation or settlement requests remained unresolved. Name and shame practices continued without giving distressed MSMEs a fair opportunity for rehabilitation or settlement, making revival even harder. In a closely knit society, public recovery campaigns damage an entrepreneurs reputation, business ties and chances of revival. FCIK also questioned repeated appeals for TReDS adoption without securing effective participation by government departments and PSUs purchasing from MSMEs. What has the Regional Office done to secure UT Government directions for their registration and time-bound acceptance of eligible invoices? Seller registration alone cannot unlock finance: public buyers must participate and accept invoices before those receivables can be discounted, observed FCIK. FCIK demanded disclosure of departments and PSUs on-boarded, invoices accepted, amounts financed and acceptance timelines, with deadlines to address gaps. Repeated references to TReDS at meetings do not release money trapped in unpaid bills. The Regional Office must help remove the administrative barriers preventing its use. The Federation further questioned its efforts to secure local access to debt adjudication for J&K borrowers compelled to pursue proceedings in Chandigarh at considerable expense and inconvenience. Acknowledging that establishing a Debts Recovery Tribunal falls within the Central Governments authority, FCIK demanded disclosure of the Regional Offices recommendations and follow-up for a tribunal in J&K or regular circuit sittings in Srinagar and Jammu. A remedy must be practically accessible, particularly when an entrepreneurs productive assets and home are at stake. Recalling its 2005 engagement with then RBI Governor Dr. Y. V. Reddy along 15 Deputy and executive Governors in Srinagar, FCIK said substantive dialogue had helped secure concessions and strengthen monitoring through Empowered Committees. Yet these committees, along the State Level Inter-Institutional Committee and its subcommittee, intended to rehabilitate sick units, failed to deliver and were subsequently abandoned. What happened to earlier concessions and rehabilitation mechanisms? Why did they disappear or become ineffective and what functioning alternatives replaced them? it asked. Urging the RBI Governor to review the Regional Offices performance, FCIK sought a time-bound programme for legacy-debt resolution, enforcement of rehabilitation safeguards, effective TReDS participation and accessible debt adjudication. The Regional Office must answer for the gap between RBIs stated objectives and entrepreneurs experience. Enterprises that survived decades of disruption deserve effective intervention. Another meeting ending with another assurance is no longer an acceptable response, FCIK concluded.
LG Manoj Sinha congratulates SKIMS on historic expansion of over 94 Seats
Srinagar, Nov 11: In a historic academic milestone, the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, has secured over 94 additional seats at three levels: over 25 MBBS seats, 63 MD/MS/PG Diploma seats and six new DM superspeciality seats. The 63 postgraduate seats take the Institute's total from 143 to 206, an increase of about 44 percent. It is the largest expansion of teaching capacity in the Institute's history, and the full training pathway, from MBBS to super-specialty, can now be completed at SKIMS. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, in a congratulatory message, said the milestone advances SKIMS's reforms and realises the advanced training vision of the 2026 Quaternary Healthcare Summit, co-organised under the aegis of NITI Aayog. He congratulated the Director, faculty, doctors, nursing, paramedical and administrative staff for their hard work in making quaternary care a reality at SKIMS, and noted that the new programmes will enable youth from J&K and Ladakh to train locally and serve their respective Union Territories. The UT Administration will continue providing full support for faculty, infrastructure, and equipment so these new programs become centres of excellence and patients can receive advanced care, the Lieutenant Governor said. SKIMS Director Prof. (Dr.) Mohammad Ashraf Ganie briefed LG Sinha on the Institute's healthcare initiatives. He said nine MD/MS specialties have been introduced for the first time at SKIMS and SKIMS Medical College, Bemina: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (4 seats), Pharmacology (4), Anatomy (5), Physiology (5), Geriatrics (2), Nuclear Medicine (2), Palliative Medicine (2), ENT (2) and Respiratory Medicine (2). A new PG Diploma in Anaesthesiology (D.A.) adds 12 seats. Seats have also been increased in six existing departments, led by Obstetrics & Gynaecology (6 to 15), Microbiology (5 to 10) and Hospital Administration (5 to 9). In super-specialty training, he said the National Medical Commission has approved two seats each in DM Neuro-Anaesthesia, DM Paediatric & Neonatal Anaesthesia and DM Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology. SKIMS has also launched new DrNB programmes, including the first DrNB in Cardiac Anaesthesia in J&K. The additional MBBS seats will give more young people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh the chance to become doctors in their own Union Territory. Nuclear Medicine brings PET imaging and targeted radionuclide therapy closer to patients, and for the first time in over four decades J&K will train its own MD-qualified nuclear medicine physicians, Director SKIMS said. He said Palliative Medicine, a first for SKIMS and available at only a few institutions in the country, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation will extend dignified, holistic care beyond inpatient stays, supporting patients with advanced illness and those recovering from stroke, spinal injury and trauma. Geriatrics responds to an ageing population, while Respiratory Medicine and ENT add depth to chest and head-and-neck care. Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology will produce teachers and researchers for medical colleges across the region, and the DM programmes add expertise for complex neurosurgical, paediatric and autoimmune care, he said. Director SKIMS said the expansion carries forward the vision of the National Summit on Quaternary Healthcare: A National Strategy for Advanced Care, organised recently under the aegis of NITI Aayog in collaboration with AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, AIIMS Jammu and AIIMS Awantipora. The Summit underlined that advanced care must become a right of citizenship and not a privilege confined to large cities, and proposed a corridor linking district hospitals and tertiary centres with quaternary-care institutions. Trained manpower is the foundation of such a corridor. The new DM and DrNB programmes, together with Nuclear Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Geriatrics and Respiratory Medicine, build the specialist expertise on which quaternary care depends. The Institute's aim is to make SKIMS a national reference centre for advanced care and an institution of international standing, he said. This is a proud moment for SKIMS and for the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. These seats mean more skilled doctors trained in our own Union Territory and more specialist care close to home. They are the first dividend of the vision of the Quaternary Healthcare Summit 2026, and our administration is committed to elevating academics, patient care and research at SKIMS to national and international benchmarks and to building a Centre of Excellence for quaternary healthcare. We are grateful to the Honble Lieutenant Governor, the Honble Chief Minister and the Health & Medical Education Department for their guidance and support, Director SKIMS said. Looking ahead, in keeping with the vision of the Quaternary Healthcare Summit 2026, he said SKIMS will build on this momentum by expanding super-specialty training, strengthening research of international standard, and establishing dedicated Centres of Excellence in advanced and quaternary care, so that patients across Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh receive world-class specialised treatment close to home from highly skilled doctors, he said. SKIMS will continue to work with the Government, national institutions and its own faculty to carry the Institute's name forward at the national and international level, he added.
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