Amritsar With the passing away of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Amritsar city has also lost connection to one of the senior-most BJP leaders. He was connected to the city in two different ways. He had replaced disgruntled BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu as the SAD-BJP candidate for the AmritsarRead More

Gidderpindi/Sultanpur Lodhi During his meetings to listen to the grievances of the flood-affected farmers at Gidderpindi village of Jalandhar and Sarupwal village of Sultanpur Lodhi, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said: “We will stop every project for the time being. Flood relief will be our only priority.” He also announcedRead More

Chandigarh Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will be among a host of dignitaries who will be invited to join the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak Dev, Punjab Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said here on Friday. Randhawa also said a Punjab Government’s delegation is awaiting theRead More

New Delhi A joint meeting of officials of Punjab and Haryana governments led by their respective chief secretaries which was convened by the Union Jal Shakti Ministry on the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal imbroglio on Wednesday remained inconclusive with both sides remaining steadfast to their earlier stands. Another round of a similarRead More

Chandigarh As Punjab struggled to brace the onslaught of water from the swollen Sutlej and its tributaries, breaching river protection at several places and inundating hundreds of acres of agricultural land, the state government today declared the flood situation a natural calamity. Chairing a meeting, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder SinghRead More

Mohali/Chandigarh In pursuance of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s directive to challenge the closure report in the Bargari case, the Punjab government on Tuesday filed a revision petition in the CBI special court at Mohali challenging its July 23 orders disallowing the state’s request for a copy of the closureRead More

Mohali The Punjab government on Tuesday rolled out a mega health insurance scheme clubbing the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat plan with its own, a combination which it said will benefit 46 lakh families covering 76 per cent of the state’s population. The ‘Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana’ incorporates the PradhanRead More

New Delhi Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said “unpleasant trends” of growing intolerance, communal polarisation, and incidents of violent crimes propelled by hatred of certain groups can only damage our polity. Remembering former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 75th birth anniversary, he said these trends are repugnantRead More

Chandigarh After touching a 30-year-high on Sunday morning, inflows into the reservoir at Bhakra Dam in Himachal Pradesh began to subside later in the day. The authorities then decided not to release additional water downstream for the time being. “The water inflow peaked at 3.11 lakh cusecs on Sunday morning,Read More

Rupnagar,  Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced on Monday that his government would earmark Rs 100 crore for flood relief, as reports of large-scale damage to property continues to trickle in from the various parts of the state. A press statement from the Punjab government quoted the chief minister, whoRead More