Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal President and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced Balkaur Singh Kalanwali former SGPC member as the SAD-INLD candidate for the Kalanwali (reserve) seat in Haryana Vidhan Sabha elections scheduled to be held on October 15th, 2014. This was disclosed in aRead More

Chandigarh, Expressing solidarity with the victims of flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir, Political Advisor to Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Tikshan Sood has contributed his one month salary in the Chief Minister Relief Fund. Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that extending a helpingRead More

Jalandhar,  Power consumers in the state are still waiting for a round-the-clock power supply. Though the state government is yet to fulfill it’s promise of turning Punjab into a power-surplus state, it cannot be denied that there has been some improvement in the power sector. The government steps to augmentRead More

New Delhi, The CBI Monday told the special 2G court hearing the Aircel-Maxis case that the FIPB approval given by former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the deal was a “mistake”. “The investment was of 800 million USD which is Rs 3,500 crore (approx). The FIPB approval (by the then Finance Minister) was a mistake. This is under investigation,” the InvestigatingRead More

New Delhi, Amidst the standoff in Chumar area of Ladakh, India on Monday decided to withdraw clearances for Chinese editors who were scheduled to arrive here this week for a media exchange with Indian journalists. The tough decision taken by the government led by Narendra Modi comes a day afterRead More

* Seeks liberal financial package for state * Asks for special term loan waiver and refund of Rs. 2694 crore paid by Punjab for fighting militancy * Comprehensive relief package worth Rs. 2330 crore sought for tackling with Drought * Demand Rs. 5000 crore as a Non-plan grant till reportRead More

Chandigarh, Mr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Irrigation minister, Punjab, today described the four-day visit of Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, president, Shiromani Akali Dal and Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, as game changer for the industrial scenario of Punjab as he has been able to secure committed investments of thousands of crores withinRead More

* Show cause notice issued to absent teachers Chandigarh, The education department today conducted surprise checking in 904 schools across the state. During the checking in total 90 teachers were found absent and 97 teachers were the late comers. It was also found that 69 teachers had not been attendingRead More

Chandigarh, The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has rescheduled its three day Open hearing / Camp sitting at Chandigarh to consider the pending cases and to discuss important human rights issues relating to the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Union Territory of Chandigarh from 29th to 31st OctoberRead More

Chandigarh, Mr. Sohan Singh Thandal, Jail Minister today reviewed the working and progress of all the drug de addiction centres set up in jails of the state. While presiding over a high level meeting of the jail department, he asked the Mr. Jagjit Singh Inspector General, Jails to prepare aRead More