* SAD to hold three dharnas near international check points to create awareness and need for greater vigilance on border Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will now hold three dharnas near the international border check points to create awareness about drugs as well as focus on the need forRead More

* Sukhbir has caused constitutional crisis – Bajwa * Tells his cadre to gear up for Vidhan Sabha polls in near future Chandigarh, In a statement issued here today, S. Partap Singh Bajwa, President PPCC asked Sh. Narendra Modi to drop Mrs Harsimrat Badal from the Cabinet immediately. Bajwa remindedRead More

* Advocates allowing airlines to choose any international airport as their hub * Urges for direct international flights from Chandigarh airport at the earliest * Demand starting of domestic flights from Bathinda and Pathankot Delhi, December 30 – Punjab today urged the centre to allow airlines to choose different internationalRead More

* Launches e-district project linking 1500 offices in state and 139 at Chandigarh with horizontal connectivity * Introduces State Portal and State Service Delivery Gateway for G2C & G2G Services Chandigarh, The year 2014 is going to culminate in on a high note for Governance Reforms in Punjab as theRead More

Sangrur,  A five-member CBI team reached Malerkotla today for an investigation into the infamous Vidhu Jain murder case. Eleven-year-old Vidhu was set afire on September 30 last year in broad daylight at Malerkotla, about 35 km from here. After reaching the spot where Vidhu was burnt alive, the CBI teamRead More

Jalandhar, NRI Affairs Minister Tota Singh has expressed displeasure over the Narendra Modi-led Union Government’s move to shift the venue of the forthcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) to Gujarat.He said the Union Government had gone ahead with holding the PBD in Gujarat this year despite knowing the fact that Gujarat andRead More

Bathinda, Within a few days of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh dubbing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as genocide, the Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that apart from the Congress, several BJP and RSS workers too were involved in the riots.Senior AAP leader Jarnail Singh, who contested the Lok Sabha elections fromRead More

Amritsar, The tug of war between the ruling SAD and Haryana Sikhs over the formation of a separate gurdwara panel dominated the Sikh politics in the year gone by which also witnessed bloody clashes at Takht Sri Patna Sahib as well as Akal Takht. The year began on a violent noteRead More

Chandigarh, In a statement issued here today, S. Partap Singh Bajwa, President PPCC said that the decision of the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to hold 4 dharnas on the sensitive international border with Pakistan, which are unprecedented and will lead to public disorder and incite violence at theRead More

* Rahat Scheme launched to facilitate 1.86 lakh shopkeepers and traders *Disbursal of VAT refunds facilitated online by creating dedicated fund Chandigarh,  The Punjab Government has attained growth rate of 11.9 percent in collection of taxes to the tune of Rs 9114 crore by the end of August 2014 asRead More