Urging the Opposition parties not to hold any agitation on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced that the state would soon get its due share of water through the SYL canal. While interacting with media persons in Panchkula, he said the Supreme Court (SC) had given …
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February 25, 2018The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Central government eight weeks time to tell it on the outcome of the discussion it was holding with Punjab and Haryana for some amicable solution of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal dispute. Giving the period, the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Amitava Roy and Justice A.M.Khanwilkar …
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September 7, 2017Sticking to their respective stands on the issue of Satluj Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, Punjab and Haryana on Thursday separately sought Centre's intervention in their favour. During the meeting with secretary, Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Amarjit Singh, while Haryana sought the completion of the remaining portion of the SYL …
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April 20, 2017The Haryana Governor Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, has said that concerted efforts made by his government have resulted in a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court (SC) on the Presidential reference, which has paved the way for initiation of the long pending construction work on the remaining portion of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal. Addressing the legislative …
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February 27, 2017The Haryana Governor Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, has said that concerted efforts made by his government have resulted in a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court (SC) on the Presidential reference, which has paved the way for initiation of the long pending construction work on the remaining portion of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal. Addressing the legislative …
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February 27, 2017Leaders of Haryana's INLD, arrested after protesting over the SYL canal project, continued to remain in jail in Punjab's Patiala for the second day on Saturday as they refused bail, said party leaders. Two MPs, 18 legislators and 73 other Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leaders were arrested by the Punjab Police on Thursday from …
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February 25, 2017Thousands of people, especially motorists, faced inconvenience on Thursday morning after security forces sealed a busy portion of a national highway on the Haryana-Punjab border that links Delhi with Amritsar. A 24 km stretch of the NH-1 was sealed off on the Ambala (Haryana)-Rajpura (Punjab) section in wake of the Indian National Lok Dal's …
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February 23, 2017The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered status quo on land acquired for the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal’s stretch in Punjab and appointed the Union Home Secretary, Punjab’s Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police as receivers. A bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy, however, made it clear that …
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November 30, 2016The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered status quo on land acquired for the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal’s stretch in Punjab and appointed the Union Home Secretary, Punjab’s Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police as receivers. A bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy, however, made it clear that …
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November 30, 2016The Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday asked PPCC President Capt Amarinder Singh that why he did not resign as Member of Parliament when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had come to Kapoori to start excavation work on SYL canal in 1982 ? “Had he resigned at that time the situation would not have reached …
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November 11, 2016