Chandigarh Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, offering him 101 suggestions to plug the gaps in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) implementation and help alleviate problems faced by businesses. In his letter to the PM, the Chief Minister, while congratulating Modi onRead More

Sangrur Belying claims of the state government on debt waiver, 66 farmers, 19 labourers and six women have allegedly committed suicide across the state in the past two months due to mounting debt. Leaders of the BKU Ugrahan today released the list with addresses and reasons behind suicide, accusing theRead More

Chandigarh There could finally be some relief for those constructing houses/buildings in Punjab. With the state government ready to auction seven blocks (as 196 sand and gravel quarries) within a month, the prices of sand and gravel are expected to come down. The process to auction the sand and gravelRead More

Jalandhar: Hoshiarpur MP Som Parkash is among the first-timers to be part of Modi’s Cabinet. A former IAS officer, he won the Hoshiarpur seat with a good margin. He had previously won the Assembly polls from Phagwara in 2017. Like his predecessor from the same seat (Vijay Kumar Sampla), ParkashRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to bring more rural poor into the ambit of the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) by relaxing norms of the scheme. In a letter to the prime minister, Singh said the definition of ‘kutcha house’ was veryRead More

Faridkot A chargesheet filed in the court here by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Kotkapura firing incident of October 2015 has claimed that Sukhbir Badal had got cancelled a criminal case of blasphemy against Dera Sacha Sauda chief in January 2015, five days before the polling for AssemblyRead More

Chandigarh In a first of its kind, oil major Indian Oil Corp Ltd on Wednesday signed a MoU with Punjab to set up 15 petrol pumps to provide fuel to farmers on credit that will be repaid after the harvesting of crops. For this, the Cooperation Department inked a pactRead More

Moga To check the overuse of fertilisers on crops, the Agriculture Department has initiated a move to install “soil fertility map” hoardings in all villages of the district showing deficiency of various nutrients in that particular area. These hoardings being installed on the premises of the village cooperative societies andRead More

Lambi (Muktsar) A day after the SIT, probing the sacrilege and police firing incidents of 2015, filed chargesheet against a former Akali MLA and five senior police officers, former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said he was ready to go to Darbar Sahib over this issue. At the sameRead More

New Delhi The infighting in the Sikh political circles of Delhi continues unabated. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today said it would move court to retrieve money what it claimed was embezzled by former DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK. Reacting to this, Manjit Singh GK said, “These areRead More