CHANDIGARH, May 20: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today criticised Re 1 cess on each litre of diesel and petrol in the state. “The Punjab government is passing on the burden of its own economic failure to the common man by way of punitive taxes”.Read More

Inaugurates new office of community policing wing * 100 more sanjh kendras to be set up * Bajwa has a sole agenda to save his chair SAS Nagar/Chandigarh, May 20 : Punjab today set an example before the nation in community policing by re-engineering the decades old police related administrationRead More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, May 20: A high level delegation of the Punjab Congress led by Dr. Shakeel Ahmad General Secretary AICC & Incharge Punajb Affairs accompanied by S. Partap Singh Bajwa President PPCC today called on the President Mr Pranab Mukherjee and submitted memorandum demanding immediate dismissal of the Akali Dal-BJPRead More

Net metering policy and farm level solar projects to give new impetus to re initiatives- Majithia * UPKAR SINGH SANDHU TAKES OVER AS CHAIRMEN PEDA * RAJEANA AND BATH TOOK OVER AS CHAIRMAN & VICE CHIARMAN OF PGL Chandigarh, May 20: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal todayRead More

* 125 POSTS CREATED IN POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR MEDAL WINNING SPORTSPERSONS * ENTRY TAX @11% LEVIED ON SUGAR IMPORTED FROM OUTSIDE PUNJAB * LAND ALLOTMENT POLICY-2014 AMENDED TO ALLOW FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS/HOSPITALS TO INVEST IN MEDI-CITY AT NEW CHANDIGARH * SLASHES STAMP DUTY FROM EXISTING 2% TO 0.5% ON REGISTRATION OFRead More

WASHINGTON – Ontario’s premier has defended the partial sale of Hydro One, insisting there will be oversight of the electricity utility after the government sells off up to 60 per cent of the operation. Kathleen Wynne was responding to criticism from several provincial oversight agencies that the public would continueRead More

OTTAWA – The Senate is using the closed-door hearings involving a disgraced former Liberal senator as a precedent for keeping internal audit information out of the Mike Duffy trial. Then-senator Raymond Lavigne was convicted in 2011 of fraud and breach of trust for using Senate funds for work on hisRead More

OTTAWA — Canada will likely be able to impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States by late summer or early fall, if Washington doesn’t repeal its country of origin labelling rules. The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that the American label requirements, known as COOL, violate America’s trade obligations. “InRead More

GATINEAU, Que. — The woman who was allegedly assaulted by Patrick Brazeau in 2013 apologized to him and hugged him a year earlier after a dispute between the two, the suspended senator’s executive assistant testified Tuesday. Lorraine Rochon said Brazeau called her at about 11 p.m. one night in FebruaryRead More

Toronto, Mark Saunders will officially become Toronto’s 20th chief of police Wednesday morning when he is sworn in to the position during a formal ceremony. The Toronto Police Services Board will host the ceremony in the foyer of the Toronto Police headquarters building on College Street at 11 a.m. SaundersRead More