Patiala, July 26 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday lit the pyre to bid a tearful adieu to his mother, Rajmata Mohinder Kaur, amid teeming crowds that had converged at Shahi Smadhan for the royal matriarch’s cremation. The Smadhan – the family’s ancestor cremation ground – appeared toRead More

New Delhi, July 26 External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said Iraq Foreign Minister had never said that the 39 missing Indians were dead. Speaking amid uproar over the issue in the Lok Sabha, Swaraj said the government would not close the file on the missing Indians in IraqRead More

New Delhi, July 24 Outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that soul of India resides in pluralism and tolerance and the country must free its public discourse from all forms of violence, physical as well as verbal. In his farewell address broadcast to the nation, he said creation ofRead More

Chandigarh, July 24: State Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption today nabbed an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) and a Revenue Patwari caught red handed while accepting bribes in two different cases. Disclosing this here an official spokesman of the Vigilance Bureau said ASI Daljit Singh posted at CityRead More

–   SONIA, RAHUL, OTHER CONGRESS LEADERS CONDOLE DEATH OF RAJMATA Chandigarh, July 23 Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has been bereaved following the sad demise of his mother, Rajmata Mohinder Kaur, who passed away in her Patiala home this evening. A former Congress MP, Rajmata Mohinder, aged 96,Read More

Chandigarh, July 24 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said finance minister Manpreet Badal should be booked for abetting suicide of an Ajnala farmer who took his life today after holding the Punjab government responsible for failing to implement a complete loan waiver as promised.Read More

Chandigarh, July 24 The Punjab government has invited objections from the general public on the proposed state transport scheme, 2017, in order to make it more broadbased, rational and transparent. Similar objections have been invited on the draft policy to check cartelization of goods transport carriages, for which draft notificationRead More

Chandigarh, July 24 With the state witnessing a whopping increase in cotton production expected during Kharif 2017, Punjab Chief Minister on Monday ordered the agriculture department to launch an aggressive campaign to prevent damage to the crop by whiteflies. On the directives of the chief minister, the department has deployedRead More

Chandigarh, July 24 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today announced a revision in the first phase programme of the party’s Jabar Virodhi Lehar which will be observed across the State besides traditional political conferences. Disclosing this here today, former minister and party spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said theRead More

Chandigarh, July 24: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has directed Markfed to immediately procure 300 tonnes of potatoes for school mid-day meals, in order to help out the distressed potato farmers of the state. The chief minister has asked Marked, Asia’s largest marketing cooperative federation, to purchase the potatoesRead More