Chandigarh Posters have been put on the roadside walls of Punjab’s Mohali district asking Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to keep his word on quitting politics over last month’s General Elections. Posters read: “When are you quitting politics??? Time to keep your word”. Sidhu had promised he would quit politicsRead More

Shillong “We are on the poll rolls and have Aadhaar cards, ration cards and electricity connection in our names. We have the right to vote and elect a government in Meghalaya and yet are ‘illegal residents’ who have been told to leave,” a dejected Gurjit Singh, the president of GurdwaraRead More

Gurdaspur Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner-cum-Returning Officer has issued a notice to MP Sunny Deol, seeking an explanation for the excess expenditure incurred by him while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. The notice was issued by DC-cum-RO Vipul Ujwal after discrepancies in the MP’s accounts were found by two expenditure observersRead More

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol, Patiala MP Preneet Kaur and AAP MP Bhagwant Mann among others took oath as the members of the 17th Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Taking the oath in English, Deol mistakenly said “withhold” instead of “uphold the sovereignty and integrity ofRead More

Chandigarh Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s urgent intervention for permission to construct 20 LMT capacity covered godowns in the state for scientific storage of foodgrain to address the acute shortage of covered storage space. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Captain Amarinder hasRead More

Lucknow A special investigation team (SIT) formed to reinvestigate the anti-Sikh riots cases filed in Kanpur after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 has decided to hold a fresh probe in 35 cases. The SIT was set up by the Yogi Adityanath government in February following aRead More

Amritsar The SGPC has constituted a committee to scrutinise the authenticity of missing manuscripts from Sikh Reference Library during Operation Bluestar. The five-member committee constituted by SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal comprised Kirpal Singh Badungar, Bibi Jagir Kaur, Dalmegh Singh, Dr Amar Singh and Dr Roop Singh. It was allegedRead More

Chandigarh Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla has met his first challenge in dealing with the file of the ‘Online Teacher Transfer Policy’, which was moved to his desk by the Secretary, School Education, last week. The policy was planned to be implemented from the current academic session. Promising transparency inRead More

New Delhi Congress Party’s Faridkot MP Mohammad Sadiq attracted eyeballs in the Lok Sabha today as he jumped rows to settle down in the front column right next to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her son and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Sadiq had everyone around asking, “Who is he?” AsRead More

Chandigarh Overcast skies and intermittent showers notwithstanding, pre-monsoon rains in Punjab this year are deficient by 76 per cent so far, making it worst-hit state in the region and among top three across the country where rains have been sorely lacking. Punjab has received a total of 4.6 mm rainfallRead More