Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today assailed the budget presented by the Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley as the one in which the common man had been completely ignored. It was listless and direction less and represented sectoral bias. In a statement, Mr Bajwa said theRead More

* Advocates new AIIMS allocated to Punjab should come up in Bathinda Bathinda, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal today congratulated Union finance minister Arun Jaitely for unveiling a historic budget aimed at making the common man part of the growth story of the country. In aRead More

Chandigarh, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said that there was nothing in the budget for the common man to cheer about. “There has not even been some token relief for the working middle classes as the income tax slabs remain unchanged”, he pointed outRead More

* Punjab to witness unprecedented growth in health, agriculture, heritage and tourism fields Chandigarh,Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today described the Union Budget presented by finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley as a positive pro development, pro poor initiative which would catapult growth and strengthen the nation’s economy. InRead More

Chandigarh, Expressing gratitude to the Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley for giving severa; important projects to the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that it was in furtherance of the agenda of NDA to emerge Punjab as a leading state by ending a longRead More

New Delhi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday announced a 5 percentage point reduction in corporate tax over next four years, abolished wealth tax and replaced it with an additional 2 per cent surcharge on super-rich individuals, while increasing service tax that will result in higher cost of variety of services.Read More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described the budget as “progressive” and “pragmatic” and said it will reignite growth while assuring foreign investors about stable, predictable and fair tax system.”Union budget 2015 is a budget with a clear vision. It is a budget that is progressive, positive, practical, pragmaticRead More

PATNA: Asking youths and common people to join politics and social service, former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and his supporters today floated ‘Hindustani Awam Morcha’ (HAM), a front to work for the public. “A public movement is needed in Bihar. We are forming Hindustani Awam Morcha to workRead More

KABUL:  An Afghan official says the death toll from a massive avalanche in a valley near the capital Kabul is rising as rescue teams gain access to villages that have been buried beneath deep snow for days. Mohammad Aslam Syas, deputy chief of the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority, saysRead More

LOS ANGELES: A Hindu temple in the US has been vandalised with several windows broken and the word “fear” painted on its wall, the second such incident in America’s Washington state this month. Vandals used bricks to break several windows and then painted the word “fear” on the wall ofRead More