Chandigarh Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday stressed the need for a close and mutual cooperation between the IAS officers and the MLAs in the interest of the state and its people. As representatives of the people, the MLAs had their ears to the ground and their pulse onRead More

Patiala The data of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) established that the state witnessed lesser air pollution as compared to the previous years on Diwali. Dr Charanjit Singh, Deputy Director, PPCB, said as per real time data of continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Khanna,Read More

Chandigarh/Amritsar The impasse between the Punjab Government and the SGPC over the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak continues with the SGPC today rejecting the Chief Minister’s offer to share responsibility for the two functions at Sultanpur Lodhi on November 11 and 12. SGPC chief Gobind Singh Longowal categoricallyRead More

New Delhi A group of Sikh devotees from India, part of a religious procession, on Monday started off their spiritual journey from Delhi to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan, the birthplace of founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev, the High Commission here said. The ‘Nagar Kirtan’ (procession) is led by SardarRead More

Ferozepur Thousands of mourners descended on the city’s cremation ground to bid farewell to senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kamal Sharma, who died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday at the age of 49. Sharma’s body was kept at a community centre in Preet Nagar for his supporters to payRead More

Amritsar With the advent of winter, rare migratory birds have started flocking at different zones of Harike, popularly known as Hari-ke-Pattan falling in Tarn Taran district. A number of birds from Siberia, Kazakhstan, Europe and other low temperature regions have arrived in the last week of October at the wetlandRead More

New Delhi Congress leader Manish Tewari on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to award Bharat Ratna to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev posthumously. In a tweet, Tewari said he had written a letter to Prime Minister formally requesting him to accord the Bharat Ratna to BhagatRead More

Dera Baba Nanak The Punjab Government, apparently to prevent a repeat of last November’s function when Vice-President Venkaihah Naidu laid the inauguration stone of the Kartapur corridor amid controversy and chaos, has formed various committees and sub-committees to ensure all impediments pertaining to the corridor’s opening are removed well inRead More

Chandigarh The ruling Congress won three Assembly seats, while the opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won one in the Punjab bypolls, the results of which were announced on Thursday. While the Congress won the Jalalabad, Phagwara and Mukerian seats, the SAD came up trumps in Dakha. Chief Minister Amarinder SinghRead More

Chandigarh Ahead of the main events to commemorate the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev at Sultanpur Lodhi, EcoSikh, an NGO working on environment conservation, today showcased 58 mini Guru Nanak sacred forests raised in parts of Punjab and other states. At each of the location, 550 trees ofRead More