Chandigarh, February 22 – Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to facilitate start of Toronto – Amritsar Air Canada flights besides suggesting that the Canadian government jointly celebrate the 550 Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev ji in league with the SGPC.Read More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Feb 22: Canadian High Commissioner Nadir Patel has cancelled Thursday’s dinner invitation to Jaspal Atwal, a convicted Khalistani terrorist. Patel was hosting the dinner for the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his delegation. “The High Commission has rescinded Mr Atwal’s invitation. We do not comment onRead More

Chandigarh, February 22 The Punjab government, led by Captain Amarinder Singh, has launched the second phase of the Ghar Ghar Rozgar scheme, with a whopping 45,747 jobs on offer for the unemployed youth of the state. For the second phase of the Mega Job Melas, organized by the state governmentRead More

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Feb 22 Jaspal Atwal, a convicted Khalistani terrorist, whose invitation to a dinner in honour of visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was rescinded following a controversy, no longer figures in the Home Ministry’s blacklist of Sikh extremists, officials said. The central government time-to-time reviews the blacklist ofRead More

Chandigarh, February 22: Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has sought ‘special category’ status for Punjab to facilitate restoration of the 90:10 sharing pattern for Centrally sponsored schemes, to enable the state to expedite its development programmes. At a meeting here with NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar on Thursday,Read More

Chandigarh, February 22: Cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur is all set to join Punjab Police as DSP on March 1, following the waiver of her employment bond by the Indian Railways in response to the persistent efforts of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. The state government has received a formal communicationRead More

Toronto, February 21 : A Canadian court has upheld the right of Quebec’s national assembly to prohibit people from entering the building with a kirpan, an article of faith for the Sikhs, media reports said. Two members of the World Sikh Organisation of Canada were challenging a unanimous motion adopted inRead More

Amritsar/Chandigarh, February 21: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday assured Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh that his country did not support any separatist movement in India or elsewhere. The categorical assurance from Trudeau came when Captain Amarinder sought the Canadian Prime Minister’s cooperation in cracking down on separatismRead More

Amritsar, Feb 21 Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday met visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau here. Both leaders discussed the strong bond that exists between the two places, largely due to an influential Punjabi community settled in the western nation. Besides the Trudeau-Amarinder meeting, which remained uncertain tillRead More

Amritsar, Feb 21 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, accompanied by his wife and two children, offered prayers at the Golden Temple on Wednesday, underlining the significance of the large Sikh and Punjabi community settled in Canada. Trudeau and his family landed at the Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International AirportRead More