New Delhi Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal called Budget 20190-20 “revolutionary” with the potential to take “India’s development and progress to a higher level”. “The Budget is strong, well-focused and revolutionary,” Badal, a Member of Parliament from Ferozepur, said. “It aims to create next level of entrepreneurialRead More

Chandigarh Expressing disappointment over Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as Congress president, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder on Wednesday said Rahul should have continued to lead the party with the same dynamism and fighting spirit with which he had steered the election campaign. Reiterating that the onus of the party’s defeat inRead More

Chandigarh Nearly a month after he was stripped of key portfolios in a Punjab cabinet reshuffle, Navjot Singh Sidhu is yet to take charge of his new assignment, as a stalemate with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh continues. On June 6, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had divested Sidhu of the LocalRead More

New Delhi/Chandigarh Prime Minister Narendra Modi has acceded to the request of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to attend the main event being held to mark the 550th Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev at Sultanpur Lodhi on November 12. On Monday, a SAD delegation led by its president SukhbirRead More

Chandigarh With just 1,200 applications received under the one-time settlement (OTS) policy for non-compoundable violations, the Local Bodies Department had sought public suggestion to review the policy. The OTS was notified in March this year. “Against expected 30 lakh violations in residential and non-residential buildings in the jurisdiction of urbanRead More

Chandigarh Sunny Deol, actor and first-time Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur, has triggered a ‘row’ by appointing screenwriter Gurpreet Singh Palheri as his ‘aide’ to co-ordinate with government functionaries on his behalf. After Deol issued a statement, the letter went viral and the MP came in for a lot ofRead More

Washington A group of Sikh activists has launched an online petition asking Indian-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris to apologise to the community for allegedly defending a discriminatory policy in 2011 that prohibited state prison guards from keeping beards for religious reasons, even though exceptions were given for medical reasons.Read More

New Delhi The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday said a calendar of events is being prepared to conduct functions across several locations in the world to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. A delegation led by party president Sukhbir Singh Badal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A statementRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has strongly condemned the sharing of a morphed image of his Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu on various social media platforms. Requesting everyone to refrain from sharing/forwarding the morphed image, the Chief Minister said such defamatory content should be verified. The Chief Minister’sRead More

Chandigarh A woman IPS officer posted with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) has successfully scaled Mount Denali in Alaska, which is the highest peak in North America. With this achievement, Aparna Kumar, has also successfully completed her “Seven Summits Challenge,” that entailed scaling the highest peak in each continent.Read More