A trader in Varanasi was caught on the wrong foot on Sunday when district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma and SSP Prabhakar Chaudhary went to a shop in Chetganj area to buy essential commodities, posing as a commoner.
The shopkeeper overcharged for the goods purchased and the two officers immediately ordered action against the erring seller.
The district magistrate warned that anyone found overcharging for essential commodities would face stern action.
With the arrest of two persons, the Punjab Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a module of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), an outfit backed by Pakistan’s ISI.
The 61-year-old BJP leader, who held the minority affairs portfolio in the outgoing council of ministers, has been appointed Cabinet minister again.
The Centre has decided to deploy about 40,000 central paramilitary and state police personnel to secure the 46-day Amarnath yatra.
Known for her go-getting attitude as the food processing minister in the NDA-I, Harsimrat Kaur Badal of Shiromani Akali Dal took oath as a Union minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Thursday.
Senior BJP leader and eight-time MP Maneka Gandhi is likely to be the pro-tem speaker in the 17th Lok Sabha elections, sources said.
On May 23, Amarinder Singh had said that the Congress failed to do well in urban areas of the state because Navjot Sidhu handled his urban development portfolio poorly.