Chandigarh Congress leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu stoked a controversy Tuesday, alleging that it was Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and party general secretary in-charge for Punjab Asha Kumari who ensured that she was denied the Lok Sabha ticket from Amritsar. “Captain Sahib and Asha Kumari think Madam Sidhu does not deserveRead More

Bathinda Cabinet Minister and Congress’ star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was missing from the poll scene in Punjab, entered the election campaign with a bang. Accompanying Priyanka Gandhi and Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Sidhu was greeted with a loud cheer from the crowd. Sidhu said he would holdRead More

Bathinda Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for suggesting that cloud cover helped IAF planes evade Pakistani radars during the Balakot airstrikes, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi today said the truth about the PM had come on the people’s radar and it was time for him to put his own radarRead More

Chandigarh Bringing the sacrilege issue back to the centre-stage ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for May 19, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today warned Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal that he would “not let him off the hook” on the emotive issue and “they wouldRead More

Amritsar Excited about contesting his first election from this holy town, Union minister Hardeep Puri says the BJP will avenge its 2014 defeat as it has fielded a Sikh candidate and there is a “definite consolidation” of the community’s votes. The diplomat-turned-politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh, saidRead More

Chandigarh Actor-turned-politician and BJP candidate from Gurdaspur, Sunny Deol, said there is still enough time for him to become a politician, but the love and affection he is getting during his campaign would surely translate into votes for him. Talking to the Zee media, the actor said: “To become aRead More

Chandigarh Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the SAD-BJP alliance at Bargari village of Faridkot district, which was the epicentre of the sacrilege incidents of October 2015. The Chief Minister announced that a memorial would be built atRead More

Amritsar The victims and families affected by the last year’s Dasehra train tragedy have decided to boycott all political parties. Reason: The government has failed to fix the accountability of any department and give jobs and monetary assistance to the victims and families of the deceased persons. All such familiesRead More

Gurdaspur Congress Gurdaspur candidate Sunil Jakhar on Monday reminded BJP’s Sunny Deol that every Indian was a ‘desh bhakt’ (patriot) and that “nobody was a traitor”. The Congress MP’s retort came after the actor addressed himself as a ‘desh bhakt’ in almost every gathering he attended recently. “Patriots do notRead More

Ludhiana/Gobindgarh If demonetisation is considered the biggest blunder of the BJP-led NDA government by the business community in Punjab, finally the “smooth run” of goods and services tax (GST) seems to have provided much-needed relief. No wonder, there seems to be a pro-Modi sentiment in urban and industrial pockets ofRead More