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Chandigarh, The Punjab Pradesh Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today called upon the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal to explain to the people the reason for the latest discrimination by his own Narendra Modi government at the centre in the matter of denial of special financial allocation toRead More
Amritsar, The counter-intelligence wing of the Punjab Police seized 50kg of heroin (worth Rs 250 crore in the international market) and a pistol from three smugglers today. The seizure was made at Gazal village in the Khemkaran sector. Those arrested were identified as Angrej Singh of Rattoke village, Raj Singh andRead More
Chandigarh, The blame game between the Punjab Police and the BSF over drug smuggling re-surfaced today with state Director-General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Saini claiming that the police had seized three major consignments of drugs in the past 33 days. He did not directly name the BSF. He claimed that afterRead More
Chandigarh, Within hours of announcement by the state DGP that Surat Singh Khalsa’s demand for the release of 82 prisoners could not be met, a police contingent swooped down on the Ludhiana Civil Hospital and placed the Sikh activist under preventive arrest. Surat Singh has been fasting for the past 41Read More
New Delhi, Fighting against time for the release of grants to the tune of Rs 282 crore by the Centre to Punjab, as recommended by the 13th Finance Commission, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today urged Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to intervene forthwith in the matter. During his meeting withRead More
Chandigarh, The Punjab and Haryana High Court today further extended the stay on implementation of transfer orders of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer, who had questioned state Minister Bikram Majithia in the Bhola drug case. The orders will remain in force till March 12. As the matter came up for resumedRead More
Chandigarh, The state stands to lose sector and state-specific grants given by the Centre. State Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa said the state got Rs 700 crore from the Centre as part of state and sector-specific grants during the current fiscal year. In the light of the recommendations of the 14thRead More
Chandigarh, After the municipal councils and nagar panchayats elections, the SAD-BJP alliance has also swept the polls to the six municipal corporations which went to the polls on February 22. The combine won majority in four — Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga. It touched the halfway mark in Phagwara while MohaliRead More
Chandigarh, Elections for six municipal corporations and 121 municipal councils have set the tone for 2017 Assembly elections. The results show that all parties have a lesson to learn, if they are to win the Assembly poll. For the ruling SAD-BJP alliance, it is clear that it is only as aRead More
New Delhi, Fulfiling two major poll promises, the AAP government today announced a 50 per cent subsidy on monthly power consumption of up to 400 units and 20,000 litres of free water per month to all households that would cost the exchequer around Rs 1,670 crore annually. The free waterRead More
