Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has described as “completely wrong” the move to bring a bill which seeks to remove the Congress president as a permanent member in a trust that runs the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial. The bill, moved by Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel in theRead More

Chandigarh The Centre has banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), an organisation which pushes for Sikh Referendum 2020 as part of its separatist agenda. Welcoming the move, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh described it as the first step towards protecting the nation from the anti-India and secessionist plans and designs ofRead More

New Delhi Devotees can access online the first-ever English audio recording of the entire Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhism. The 92-hour long recording has been launched by US-based religious non-profit Sikh Dharma International (SDI). As per SDI, the English translation comes from the work of SantRead More

Chandigarh With the last office-bearer, vice-chairman Dargesh Kumar Sharma, demitting office last week, it seems to be the end of the road for Punjab Gau Sewa Commission.  Sharma’s term ended last Wednesday. The three-year term of chairman Keemti Bhagat and eight members ended more than a year ago. Since then,Read More

Gurdaspur The high-powered District Election Monitoring Committee (DEMC), the authority which keeps a tab on the expenditure incurred by candidates during elections by maintaining shadow observation registers (SOR), has confirmed that Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol actually overshot his expenditure limit. The committee, comprising two expenditure observers (both IRS officers), DeputyRead More

Amritsar The matter of extra-judicial killings during the militancy period in the state has reached the Supreme Court. Family members of victims of alleged fake encounters by the state police along with Punjab Documentation and Advocacy Project (PDAP) have filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the apex court seekingRead More

Chandigarh The state’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which launched a dedicated complaint number and e-mail address to report the sale of illicit drugs at medical stores, got flooded with calls within the first two days. Giving a fillip to the statewide efforts to contain the menace of drugs, theRead More

Sangrur Two days after The Tribune highlighted how a Class XII student contracted HIV after using shared syringes to inject chitta, seven more addicts in the area have tested positive for the dreaded disease, while another four are suffering from hepatitis C. Sources said following the news report, Deputy CommissionerRead More

Chandigarh Amid the ongoing stand-off between Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was divested of the local bodies portfolio, three Punjab Cabinet ministers met Congress leader Ahmed Patel in Delhi today and gave a detailed insight into the “performance” of Sidhu as LocalRead More

Amritsar The biggest-ever seizure of over 550 kg of heroin concealed in a rock salt consignment at the Attari ICP makes it amply clear that the city continues to be the favoured transit destination of cross-border smugglers to push drugs into Punjab. Despite the Amritsar Customs Department patting itself onRead More