Gurdaspur The charisma of film star and BJP candidate Sunny Deol triumphed over the experience and political sagacity of three-time former MLA and Congress’Sunil Jakhar with the former trouncing the PPCC chief by more than 82,000 votes. In fact, the moment the BJP announced Deol’s candidature from this border constituency,Read More

Chandigarh Bucking the national trend of massive pro-Narendra Modi wave, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh steered the Congress to a commendable performance in the state, winning eight of the 13 seats with a good margin. Establishing himself as the tallest leader in the party who punctured the BJP’s nationalism narrativeRead More

Jalandhar The Counter-Intelligence Wing of Jalandhar Police and Commissionerate Police Amritsar on Thursday arrested a wanted extremist belonging to Khalistan Commando Force (KCF). The accused has been identified as Kulwant Singh alias Kanta Valaitiya of Jagrawan village in Jalandhar. He has been arrested following an intelligence input. In a pressRead More

Chandigarh, May 23 Withstanding the BJP wave across the country, the Congress in Punjab bagged eight of the 13 Lok Sabha seats. In the 2014 elections, too, the state had gone against the national trend in favour of the BJP and voted for four Aam Aadmi Party MPs and threeRead More

Chandigarh Actor Esha Deol congratulated not just mother Hema Malini, but also her half-brother Sunny Deol on their victory in the general elections 2019. While Sunny won from Punjab’s Gurdaspur, Hema won by a big majority in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura by over 2.9 lakh votes. Actor Dharmendra had also joinedRead More

Chandigarh The Congress seems to have upped its tally in the Lok Sabha from Punjab, leading on eight of the 13 parliamentary seats, up from four in 2014. The Akali-BJP alliance was ahead on two seats each, and the embattled Aam Aadmi Party was leading in Sangrur, where its presidentRead More

Chandigarh As the Congress leads on eight of the 13 seats in Punjab, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday fired a fresh salvo on cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying the latter was unable to run his own department. A senior leader said the Chief Minister’s stand clearly showedRead More

Bathinda With the SAD hoping to retain its bastion and the Congress eyeing to stage a coup at the high-profile Bathinda seat, it will be the AAP’s support base which will play a decisive role in the outcome of elections here tomorrow. Five out of the nine Assembly segments areRead More

Chandigarh AICC’s Punjab in-charge Asha Kumari on Tuesday sought a report from the party’s state unit over the face-off between Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu, as more party leaders backed the CM. Sidhu is under fire from his own party leaders after heRead More

Amritsar The SGPC has welcomed the UK government’s decision on exempting ‘kirpan’ from the list of banned weapons. Following a rise in the crimes using knives and sharp-edged weapons in England, the UK government had formulated a new law banning these tools to control such incidents. Now, the UK governmentRead More