Amritsar, The executive committee of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee today adopted its Rs. 993. 24 crore budget for 2016-16 which is higher by Rs 88 crore as compared to that of the last year. Its President Avtar singh Presided. The budget estimates were present by its general Secretary SukhdevRead More

Chandigarh, Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has released a book on one of the popular statesmen of Punjab – Sardar Gurbakhsh Singh and the story of Sibia’s forefathers, “A Life Well Lived” written by his son Karanvir Singh Sibia, at a function held at St Stephen’s School inRead More

Chandigarh, Slamming what he described as the day and night robbery by the toll plazas in the state, People’s Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today demanded this must stop and if at all the issues involved were legal, the rates should be rationalised. “What has come as aRead More

Chandigarh, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday ended a 100-km cycle rally to denounce the ‘VIP culture’ of the Punjab government. The rally, which began on Sunday from Ludhiana, culminated in Chandigarh with party leaders calling for an immediate stop to the ‘VIP culture’ in the name of security.Read More

Chandigarh, The protests by the members of the Punjab Congress Kisan cell in front of the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal continued on the 4th day today. A group of farmers shouted slogans in support of their demands that include implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report onRead More

Amritsar, Amritsar cable operator Jaswinder Singh Jassi who committed suicide in the presence of Supreme Court and High Court judged here during a seminar died in the hospital today morning. He had consumed poison after narrating his problem at the seminar attended by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel of the SupremeRead More

Chandigarh, A day after skipping the Dhuri byelection meeting called by Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa, the Captain Amarinder Singh group on Monday held the former responsible for the division in the party. The severe criticism comes from nowhere else but the home district of Bajwa, as Gurdaspur DistrictRead More

Chandigarh, A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday adjourned hearing in the Rs 6,000-crore Bhola drug racket case for April 6. The case was listed for hearing before the division bench of justice AK Mittal and justice Rekha Mittal. As the hearing started in theRead More

Hoshiarpur,  People’s Party of Punjab state secretary Sandeep Saini today said they would soon start a ‘Pol Khol Abhiyan’ to bring forth the alleged failures of the SAD-BJP government in the state. He alleged the Punjab Government had failed on every front, be it improving farmers’ condition, providing better opportunitiesRead More

Abohar,  The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, hailed by the Centre as the largest and most ambitious social security and public works programme in the world, benefitted none in 6,104 of 13,054 villages in Punjab this financial year. The Centre had released Rs 189.48 crore toRead More