Chandigarh, Mr Rahul Tewari, IAS, today took charge as Director, Information and Public Relations, Punjab. A 2000-batch Punjab cadre IAS officer is Deputy Chief Minister’s Special Principal Secretary, Director (Lotteries), and will now hold the additional charge as Director, Information and Public Relations, Punjab. Mr Tewari took over the chargeRead More

Chandigarh, In a press note issued by the PPCC office it was informed that Sh. Varinder Sharma has been appointed as Chairman Training Cell of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee by S. Partap Singh Bajwa, President PPCC. Bajwa informed that this appointment has been made with a view to impart trainingRead More

New Delhi, The Union Cabinet has paved the way for fresh polls in Delhi after it approved Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung’s report recommending dissolution of the Assembly. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence, 7 Race Course Road on Tuesday.The Centre’s decisionRead More

New Delhi, On a day Union Cabinet recommended dissolution of Delhi Assembly, AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal said the Centre was forced to take the decision as BJP’s attempts to “poach” AAP MLAs did not succeed and exhuded confidence of winning at least 45 seats in the polls to the 70-memberRead More

* Number One in Northern states * Despite facing discrimination ahead of states enjoying special economic packages Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal-Bhartiya Janta Party alliance government that came into power on the agenda of development alone has achieved another distinction with Punjab being awarded second position in overall development inRead More

Ludhiana,Former District Congress Committee president Pawan Dewan today rejected his ‘expulsion’ from the party saying the Disciplinary Action Committee was not authorised to expel an elected member of the PCC and an elected district president. He said, the DAC chairman Gopal Krishen Chatrath had merely acted as a stenographer ofRead More

Chandigarh, The Disciplinary Action Committee of the Punjab Congress today announced the expulsion of the former Ludhiana district Congress Committee (Urban) chief and five others from the primary membership of the party. The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the DAC held here last evening underRead More

Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Agriculture experts, Rice Exporters and state Agriculture Department to jointly chalk out a strategy for preparing a ‘Seed Development Plan’ for Basmati. Presiding over a meeting of Basmati Development Board here at his residence this evening, the Chief MinisterRead More

Jalandhar,Hundreds of members of the Dalit Samaj today held a massive protest at Jalandhar demanding resignation of the Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa for his being anti-poor and anti-Dalit under the banner of the Dr Ambedkar Mission. They also demanded the appointment of a Dalit as the PCC presidentRead More

Ludhiana, In the drugs matter the Punjab Government must take strict action against big fishes. National BJP Leader from Punjab Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal said that only small time pedlars and addicts had been arrested in the state but the big fish were either not touched or simply let off. InRead More